Old Enough to Forget

Part Three was the band's fourth album, and after dropping two albums just months apart in 1975 (although to be fair their third album The Sound of Sunshine was an instrumental album, so maybe it didn't count) the band was building up a pretty solid list of hits, and honestly I will admit some of them were pretty dang catchy. Although I was kind of embarrassed to admit to liking anything disco. KC and the Sunshine band (or K.C. & The Sunshine Band) were basically a funky pop band who managed to become synonymous with disco, and why not? It was music that made your feet happy, and for a couple of years these guys were almost as unassailable as the Bee Gees. Then they weren't, but for a time they were. When this came out they were, and they were at the top of their game. Over the last year I have found myself picking up albums by artists I never, ever ... EVER thought I'd listen to, let alone buy. Yes buying - as a dollar is still a dollar. When I broke down the firs...

It was going to happen sooner or later. Nostalgia is a cruel Mistress...she can dull the sharpest edges and over time can even soften the hardest of opinions. I found this in the dollar bin, and frankly at a dollar I was worried about what this would cost me. Not only from a monetary perspective, but my time, and more important my credibility. Fourteen year old me was screaming "Don't you dare. DON'T DO IT! Put it down. Walk away!" Then there was grey bearded me holding it and looking at it, thinking, "How bad could it be? I actually kind of like "Staying Alive" and me buying this record won't bring disco back, and no one will have to know I bought this." I pulled the album out of the bin, and carefully took out the records. They'd seen better days, and there were a couple of decent scratches that would no doubt make their presence known later. The jacket was in decent condition, and both of the albums had the original sleeves. I dusted the...