The Tragically Hip – Road Apples
(Album ©1991, MCA Records) After college was filled with all kinds of new music, as I was working at a radio station and had lots of time and access to see...
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Shawn Colvin – Steady On
(Album ©1989, Columbia Records) As mentioned previously, college was a time of lots of musical discovery for me, as I would assume it is for most people. L...
Fishbone – Truth And Soul
The first 7 most influential albums have all been ones that are now considered “classic rock,” but as I mentioned previously, college was where I st...
Guns-N-Roses – Appetite For Destruction
So far, if you’re following along, we’ve gotten through high school. Van Halen joined Bruce, The Stones, The Kinks, and The Who as my favorite bands...
Van Halen – Van Halen
Bruce, The Kinks, The Stones and The Who got me through Middle School, but by 1983, I knew there was other exciting music out there. I had already picked up on ...
The Kinks – Give The People What They Want
I used to spend a lot of time with my aunt Deane & uncle Howie – we’ve been really tight since I was a little kid. So spending a weekend afterno...
Bruce Springsteen – The River
I’m tracing my musical evolution with you chronologically, so you might find it surprising that Bruce was not the first but the fourth step in that journe...
Cheap Trick – At Budokan!
I first heard this record in 1979, the only summer I ever went to sleep-away camp (Lincoln Farm, in Roscoe, NY – home of the marginally famous Roscoe Dine...
Living Colour – Vivid
Today, I wanted to review one of the best debut albums in all of rock-n-roll, which sometimes gets overlooked – Living Colour’s album Vivid. Some of...
Kiss – Rock & Roll Over
This record is the first rock and roll record I ever owned. It came out in late 1976, and I heard it soon after when a second-grade classmate (TJ Rapaport, wher...