Old Enough to Forget

A few nuggets here. The Alice Cooper record has seen better days, but I've found some really cool stuff too. Besides it's all for a good cause. Alice Cooper - Love it to Death (1971) Visions: Mission Andromeda (1987) The Records - The Records (1979) Trooper - Money Talks (1982) Eddie Schwartz - No Refuge (1981) Alice Cooper - Love it to Death (1971) While Billion Dollar Babies was my jam, and I love that album, it never really spurred me to become an obsessive fan. I mean don't get me wrong, when I heard his stuff I never turned it off, and when in the mid '80s he had a career resurgence I was there.  A while back I walked into a shop, and out front was a box that was full of records with a sign saying FREE . Well, it was worth a look. There sandwiched in between an old Irish Rovers record (that I had already. Don't judge me) and some obscure soundtrack was a pretty beat up copy of Love it to Death. "Well what have we here?" I slip the record out, and i...

It's been a few days of albums from 1980. Well, since I'm here I may as well enjoy myself. The Records followed up their 1979 debut, the one that had "Teenarama" and the stellar "Starry Eyes" with Crashes . This is the one where a young Jude Cole, who had just left Moon Martin, joined up with The Records to replace lead guitarist and vocalist Huw Gower. This was really the golden age of that first wave of power pop that ran in parallel to the chaos of punk. It siphoned off the energy and rebelliousness but wrapped everything in starry pop goodness that payed homage to it's rock roots but was carving out it's own sound.(don't roll your eyes, I worked hard to work "starry" in, and it's not even on this album).  The Records had managed to get a foot in the door in North America in '79, and a year later when Crashes was released the band came over to support the release playing smaller rooms, like the legendary Commodore Ballroom in...