Even the Bus Stops at Sam's
As promised six or seven years ago, everything has been reshuffled to read front
to back. It was a nightmare. Every section below required four steps:
1) Cut-and-paste each group of records so that they reversed order--top group to
the bottom, second group down to second-last, etc.
2) Do the same thing with the 15-30 albums within each group--top album to the
bottom, etc.
3) Somewhere towards the end of the first thousand albums, I discovered a sig-
nificant glitch in the numbering whereby 13 numbers had been duplicated; I found
another two numbers duplicated a few sections after that. So the last 2700 or 2800
LPs all had to be renumbered, which in turn meant that:
4) All mixworthy and spent listings had to be renumbered, all text had to be
checked for album references that required renumbering (along with a bit of rewrit-
ing in a couple of spots to account for the changes), and the listings below had to
be renumbered.
Also: navigational links for each page that either take you to the next section
or return you to the index; the sure-to-be-controversial addition of a Tears for
Fears song into mixworthy; the addition of a Cat Stevens album I recently talked a
friend into letting me have (it's got "Here Comes My Baby," which I wanted to get
into mixworthy); an image of Bobby Sherman's Greatest Hits in place of the Shaggs'
Philosophy of the World (no disrespect to the Shaggs, but Bobby's got much nicer
bangs); a CHUM chart from 1969 that underscores something I wrote about Tommy Roe;
and one brand new joke. I know many people will be more than happy to reread every-
thing in search of the joke, but I'll tell you in advance that it's somewhat tepid.
abba - aztec camera (records #1 - #86) stevie b - beastie boys (records #87 - #159)
beat farmers - art blakey (records #160 - #235)
bobby bland - foxy brown (records #236 - #305)
james brown - eric carmen (records #306 - #387)
carpenters - chubby checker (records #388 - #447)
clifton chenier - ornette coleman (records #448 - #526)
mitty collier - cowboys international (records #527 - #585)
cramps - dB's (records #586 - #634)
d mob - jackie deshannon (records #635 - #697)
desert rose band - ian dury (records #698 - #772)
bob dylan - epmd (records #773 - #840)
erasure - fine young cannibals (records #841 - #902)
elisa fiorillo - force m.d.'s (records #903 - #967)
frankie ford - general public (records #968 - #1028)
generation x - al green (records #1029 - #1093)
grant green - johnny hodges (records #1094 - #1175)
adolph hofner - incredible string band (records #1176 - #1234)
independents - tommy james & the shondells (records #1235 - #1293)
jan & dean - k.c. and the sunshine band (records #1294 - #1378)
tommy keene - leather nun (records #1379 - #1463)
led zeppelin - los lobos (records #1464 - #1548)
los popularos - mars (records #1549 - #1613)
wynton marsalis - midnight oil (records #1614 - #1705)
midnight star - musical youth (records #1706 - #1792)
mx-80 sound - only ones (records #1793 - #1874)
yoko ono - wilson pickett (records #1875 - #1959)
jeffrey lee pierce - prince (records #1960 - #2027)
john prine - lou reed (records #2028 - #2111)
martha reeves - shorty rogers (records #2112 - #2189)
rolling stones - sir douglas quintet (records #2190 - #2254)
sailor - shoes (records #2255 - #2339)
shrapnel - spagna (records #2340 - #2424)
spaniels - rob stoner (records #2425 - #2492)
stooges - talking heads (records #2493 - #2563)
james talley - timex social club (records #2564 - #2650)
toad the wet sprocket - velons (records #2651 - #2734)
velvet underground - wee papa girls (records #2735 - #2796)
weirdos - bobby womack (records #2797 - #2878)
stevie wonder - zz top (records #2879 - #2960)
alan freed's memory lane - the young blood story, volume 1 (records #2961 - #3007)
history of rhythm & blues, volume 1: the roots, 1947-52 - the autumn records story (records #3008 - #3077)
not so quiet on the western front - crystal city compilation (records #3078 - #3155)
kings of rap - jingle bell jazz (records #3156 - #3208)
the greatest hits of the 30s - the world of private music (records #3209 - #3264)
abc's "say it" - barbara mason's "don't i ever cross your mind sometime (records #3265 - #3360)
kym mazelle's "got to get you back" - zoo experience's "love's got a hold on me" (records #3361 - #3439)
j.s. bach - felix mendelssohn (records #3440 - #3518)
w.a. mozart - rajkumar and indrani rizvi (records #3519 - #3619)
hoagy carmichael - jack teagarden (records #3620 - #3649)