It's not often a classic pops up in the dollar bin. The last surprise that was this big was Tattoo You by the Stones, and that album was in amazing shape including the insert. Part of me wasn't to concerned so long as the big songs were playable. Besides I have the 2003 deluxe edition and that is almost two and a half hours of stuff - much of it I've maybe heard once while it played in the background. Yeah, sad. Anyway here was the 1980 MCA re-issue (at first this confused me as I thought this was an old record - I mean it is old, but older than the date suggested), and someone must have been having a bad day and dragged the needle across the first side. I could feel it with my finger nail so I figured best case was a repeating pop for a few songs. Thankfully "Baba O'Riley" was fairly clean, and frankly on the first side that's all that mattered to me. The songs still sound pretty fresh and while still being very much of their time. When I think of some o...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget