Old Enough to Forget

On of the record stores I like to frequent has a pretty solid online store. Every so often I'll just go on a splurge in the comfort of my home, where I am able to wear my crocs and not feel like I'm being judged. So there I am, mindlessly searching for stuff, and I key to the fact I can search for still sealed items ...  Well, this could be fun.  I went on a bit of a tear and ended up with about a hundred bucks of stuff that seemed like a good idea. I got the kids to pay for it as it was close to my birthday. One of the treasures that popped up was Underworld by The Front. The name of the band felt familiar, but I couldn't peg it at the time. So I added this to the cart. I honestly had no idea what to expect, but from the back cover photo was as it was on Duke Street records, so it was likely going to be okay. After all, Jane Siberry and Rik Emmett were on Duke Street at one point so I assumed this would be a guilty by association thing.  The album was indeed a lot of fun...

Growing up the second biggest thing in my life was comics. My dad had some very early MAD magazines among his collection of books. I would end up with a lot of the magazines and dozens of paperbacks of my own as time went on. I loved Don Martin, but when it came to the parodies for movies or TV, there were two names that were above all others: Mort Drucker and Jack Davis. A couple of years after Burton Cummings had left the band to pursue his solo career RCA put together yet another greatest hits collection. Considering the first best of collection had gone platinum in Canada, and gold in the US back in 1971, and the second collection in 1973 went gold in Canada wasn't it about time for another one? After all Burton was riding high in 1977 with his double platinum My Own Way to Rock, but that success didn't seem to help this one too much. It did crack the Billboard 200, but I guess people already had enough recycled Guess Who albums. To me though, this is the album I remember a...