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Posts tagged: 121-130
#127 - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (The Mamas & the Papas)
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Before I listened to this album, I thought The Mamas & the Papas had a really long, incredibly successful career. Since they formed (and soon after dissolved) in the 60s, over...
#121 - Moby Grape (Moby Grape)
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Cover art for Moby Grape's self-titled debut album, released in June 1967. I'm pretty sure that I had never heard of Moby Grape before I read this album...
#122 - Pearl (Janis Joplin)
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Janis Joplin's album art for 'Pearl' (released January 11, 1971)"][/caption] Janis Joplin's posthumous album, entitled 'Pearl' was actually not completed because of her unexpected death, which is supposedly from heroin overdose when she was only 27 years old. In fact one...
#123 - Catch A Fire (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="302" caption="Catch A Fire (released April 13, 1973)"][/caption] I feel confident saying that this is one of the most well-known, if not the most well-known reggae album of all time. After years of playing together and several other albums, Bob Marley & The Wailers released...
#124 - Younger Than Yesterday (The Byrds)
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Younger Than Yesterday, the fourth album from The Byrds (released February 6, 1967)"][/caption] "So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star", the opening track on the album, sounds to me like a mock or a comment on the rising number of commercialized, "money-maker" bands that...