![[Bad Brains - Bad Brains]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/BadBrainsBadBrains1996225253_f.jpg)
I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.
Tags: bad brains, pj harvey, purchase log, salt 'n' pepa, taylor swift, the notwist, willie nelson
![[Easterhouse - Waiting for the Redbird]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EasterhouseWaitingforthe209757_f-287x300.jpeg)
I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.
My London trip two weeks ago kept away from the neighborhood thrift shops.
Tags: alison moyet, bleachers, bob mould, calexico, drivin n cryin, easterhouse, gabby pahinui, iron and wine, led zeppelin, massive attack, mr. mister, nightnoise, paul motian, phoenix, purchase log, rage against the machine, rodney crowell, shakespeares sister, soundtrack, the go-betweens, the xx, willie nelson, xtc, yo la tengo
![[Blondie - Parallel Lines]](https://musicwhore.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BlondieParallelLines1978160432_f-300x300.jpeg)
A decade ago, I wrote a series of entries ranking my favorite albums from 1985 to 2004. My collection has expanded greatly since then, particularly in the last five years. So I wanted to see what has changed in 10 years.
Our retrospective ends at 1978 because my collection starts thinning out at this point. I was 6 years old at the time and just starting to become aware of songs on the radio. Of course, nothing on this list would have appealed to 6-year-old me.
Other favorites from the year:
I loved Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”, but when my dad saw her perform on Solid Gold, he hated her on sight. “She looks drugged,” he would complain, so I wasn’t allowed to listen to Blondie. That didn’t stop my brother from picking up the 7-inch singles for “The Tide Is High” and “Rapture.”
I can only imagine what dad would have said if he saw Kate Bush dancing in “Wuthering Heights.”
If any album on this list would have appealed to 6-year-old me, it would be Rap Reiplinger’s Poi Dog. Local radio played Reiplinger’s skits regularly, and I enjoyed hearing “Room Service” over and over again.
I didn’t realize those skits were available on an album. I thought only radio could broadcast them, so it wasn’t until Poi Dog was reissued on CD in 1992 that I could relive that thrill.
Reiplinger forged the Honolulu stand-up comic scene, and it died when he did in 1984. Or maybe it was the humorlessness of the 1980s.
Tags: andrew lloyd webber, andy gibb, blondie, brian eno, clannad, emmylou harris, favorite edition, kate bush, rap reiplinger, rewind, steve reich, the police, willie nelson