Old Enough to Forget

Eddie Money. Not one of the names that immediately pops into my mind when I think of rocks great vocalists, but when the guy sings man, he's right up there. He's got the swagger and delivery and he doesn't sound like anyone else. He sounds like, money.  I've always liked a lot of his music, but I didn't have a lot of his music. I had a few albums, his '78 sophomore album Life for the Taking, and his '82 release No Control t hat had "Think I'm in Love" a song that still make me grin like an idiot. I The last one I bought was Can't Hold Back  from 1986, because it had "Take Me Home Tonight" on it. Dang that song was so good. It also had a cover of Stan Meissner's "One Chance" but to me it wasn't nearly as good as the original. No Control  is a really decent record, and one I probably appreciate more now than I did when I was nineteen. The big songs back then are still the big songs now. "Shakin'" is...

Eddie Money always seemed like a guy who was just on the cusp of being a really big deal. He'd get close but he never really quite made it to the front of the line. His debut album was released in December of 1977 but the album gained traction well into 1978 with songs like "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise" which were arguably two of his biggest songs. I found this one in a bargain bin that warned me the album was sold "as is"and buyer beware. The vinyl looked fine to me ... and there were a couple of copies. I asked if I could swap covers as one of them had Eddie sporting a wonderful ball point pen moustache and the cover I ended up with had an old CFUN radio station sticker on it. I was fine with that, as CFUN had a lot of nostalgia associated with it - there was a time the two stations worth listening to in the early 70s were CKLG and CFUN and you could bounce between them on your radio and find something worth listening to. Oddly...