Tag Archives: Parliament

Records at Random, Vol. 74: Bill Cosby Hooray for the Salvation Army Band

Earlier this week I was watching late-nite re-runs of The Cosby Show when I had a revelation. Dr. Heathcliff “Cliff” Huxtable, the show’s main character, despite all of his positive aspects, was a habitual liar. He was a successful doctor, had an amazing wife, exceedingly lovely daughters, an industrious son, and an awesome […]

A Many-Hued Existence

I get tons of e-mails every day from bands, musicians, singers, rappers, public relations firms and even other bloggers asking me to listen to “their” music. Only a tiny number of those e-mails contain links to music which is actually of some interest to me. And amongst that privileged minority only a paltry […]

Records Reissues at Random, Vol. 71: Sixto Rodriguez Cold Fact

Early in the week I praised Tabacco and his group Black Moth Super Rainbow for the druggy, psychedelic quality of their music. This might seem odd coming from a person like myself who’s proud of the fact that they abstain from ingesting things like actual tobacco, in both it’s traditional and “wacky” varieties, and […]

“Deportees (Things Change)” © Mark Anthony Myrie

Does anybody know what Sade’s been doing since she released Lovers Rock close to eight long years ago? Not that she really has to do anything, other than look sexy, but I kinda miss her is all. And I guess the Sophisti-Pop influence — an amalgam of Jazz, continental Pop, orchestral […]

Records at Random Vol. 54 - Roy Ayers Ubiquity Mystic Voyage

I’ve broken the “rules” I set up for myself in doing this Records at Random thing a couple of times by featuring a record simply because I felt like listening to it that day. On the flip side of that I’ve also been pleased to find an LP that happens to be a personal […]