In 1970, a British fellow of Greek & Swedish heritage by the name of Steven Demetre Georgiou (better known as Cat Stevens) released his second studio album for Chris Blackwell’s Island Records label. Contrary to the story he always tells about about how he almost lost his life & drowned at a beach in Malibu, [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Tea For The Tillerman – Cat Stevens
Posted in Reviews on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Purple Rain – Prince and the Revolution
Posted in Prince, Reviews on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is Prince’s sixth album for Warner Brothers Records, and his first one to be officially credited to “Prince & The Revolution.” Unless of course, you count the backwards writing in the graphics for the “1999″ album which also refer to that now legendary clique. Some folks out there believe that this album was originally [...]
Wines & Spirits – Rahsaan Patterson
Posted in Rahsaan Patterson, Reviews on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Record number four from former Kids Incorporated star Rahsaan Patterson is yet another indie release from the man, very much like his previous offering “After Hours,” from 2004. At the time of writing, it’s only been released in the States via Artistry Records & Dome Records in the United Kingdom……which means that it still hasn’t [...]
Van Hunt – Van Hunt
Posted in Reviews, Van Hunt on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Van Hunt first came to my attention back in 2001, after I had purchased Rahsaan Patterson’s “Love In Stereo” album from 1999. It appeared that he was the co-writer & co-producer (at times simply just the writer) on the bulk of that particular album as his name was listed all over the credits. Perhaps his [...]
On The Jungle Floor – Van Hunt
Posted in Reviews, Van Hunt on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The second offering from Van Hunt was released in the United States in april 2006. However, being that the man’s albums never get released over here on the other side of the world, I had no choice but to purchase the album digitally from Apple’s iTunes download store….coulda been worse, I could’ve downloaded it illegally. [...]
Off The Wall – Michael Jackson
Posted in Michael Jackson, Reviews on October 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Although this was actually Michael’s fifth album around the time it was released in 1979, it was only his first one for Epic Records, the company whom The Jacksons aligned themselves with after a rather lengthy run with Motown. “Off The Wall” was the first time a much more adult – and certainly a much [...]
She’s Strange- Cameo
Posted in Cameo, Reviews on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Doing these album reviews definitely takes me back to some degree. Case in point: I still remember the day I found a copy of this album. I was 16 years old and had just returned from a school excursion to a place that was located all the way over on the other side of the [...]
Alligator Woman – Cameo
Posted in Cameo, Reviews on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Even though “Alligator Woman” is in fact record number eight from this legendary Atlanta-based Funk outfit, it was only the second or third album of theirs that I added to my collection. I suppose I can be excused for that. Only for the fact that I was actually born in 1982 – the same year [...]
Cardiac Arrest – Cameo
Posted in Cameo, Reviews on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I think I recall stumbling upon a used copy of this album on CD when I was roughly around fifteen or sixteen years of age, but I never actually went ahead & made the purchase until about two or three years after spotting it in that very same record store. I didn’t know very much [...]
