The Cars - Candy-O

Another Cars album. Think I only have the two. It's a good record. I didn't recognize any of the song titles but I remembered the songs when I heard them. I like the Cars okay. They aren't one of my favorite bands but they have a lot of good songs and they were on heavy rotation on MTV back before it started to suck. Record was in great shape. Plays great. Jacket's good. Probably the best all around condition of anything I've played so far which is a god damned shame considering I can't get Highway 61 to play. So. Moving right along.

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The Muppets - The Muppet Movie Soundtrack

I must have really loved this movie because here it is on vinyl, and I remember my dad having a copy on 8-track (it was a thing. google it.). He had an old Chevy Malibu from back when that was a cool car to have and not a grocery getter. It had an 8-track in it and we'd drive around singing along with Creedence and The Who and The Police and one or two he had for me. This was one of the ones he had for me. Anyway it was a good album and I have good memories about it. But not good enough to remember to update the blog when I played it. I played this like a month ago and forgot to write an entry for it until now.

Cleaned up. Plays nice. There you go.

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Supertramp - Breakfast in America

This has two songs on it that I think are okay, "The Logical Song," and "Take the Long Way Home." The title is kind of dick move though. I didn't have time for breakfast today and I'm freaking starving. Thanks, Supertramp. THANKS.

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Man, I love the Police. The title of this one is fake French intended to mean "white reggae" which is a pretty apt description of the Police. I had no idea that's what it meant when I was a kid. I loved every single thing the Police ever did, and I was also pretty into reggae. Toots and the Maytals, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, I loved all that shit.

But I never really connected the dots until I met another kid in high school who was also into the Police who gave me a free ticket to a Sting concert (and a ride to the show, that guy was awesome). On the way there we talked about the band and he said they were basically an English reggae band and I realized he was right. I'd been listening to them forever and never even thought of that.

That car ride to the Sting concert at the Garden State Arts Center was also the first time I heard Use Your Illusions. That was an awesome time, back before I realized Sting was a tool.

Yeah. Good times.

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Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance

I had heard the name of this band but I didn't remember enough about them to have an opinion. I looked them up on youtube and found this entire album. I listened to about fifteen seconds of it and I feel I can say with some authority that doing that was a mistake.

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Chuck Mangione - Children of Sanchez

I feel uncertain that this Chuck Mangione album is distinct enough from the other Chuck Mangione album to justify owning both of them.

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