All articles filed in albums I want to be buried with

If I have to put a holiday album in the casket with me and all the other records, there are really only three choices worth storing.  They would be, of course, the first edition of A Very Special Christmas (the one with Run-D.M.C.’s “Christmas in Hollis”) I could also have included A Christmas Gift For…

So it’s probably around 1977 or so.  I’m listing to radio station 3WD, which at that time was the coolest radio station playing all the top 40 hits, when the disc jockey announced that they had received a record in the studio – a record that may have been created by the reunited Beatles. Okay,…

If I learned anything from playing youth soccer, it was that Mitch Reiter was the best goaltender in the league.  The fact that we kept losing by scores of 6-0 and 8-0 only meant that he was playing on the team with the WORST DEFENSEMAN in the history of youth soccer.  Yes it was me. …

How many times can a pop song actually make a positive change in the world?  How many times can a lyric actually convince a government to change its path? For the Australian folk-rock band Goanna, that album was “Spirit of Place,” and its first single, “Solid Rock,” told a story of Australia that the rest…

In this edition of “Albums I Want to Be Buried With,” Chuck Miller talks about the glam-punk rock album “Stinkin’ Out the Joint” by the Canadian band ‘63 Mönröe, and the time he saw the band at an emotional reunion concert.

Really?  Cris Williamson? Feel free to dump a ton-load of quizzical looks my way.  It’s all right.  I understand. But Chuck… isn’t this an album for… and aren’t you… And I respond… What’s the big deal? There’s so much about this album that could get lost in the perspective of “well, this album is targeted…

Unless you’re from Australia or New Zealand, you’ve likely never heard of the rock band Dragon.  And you would be sorely deprived from this loss. Dragon was one of Oceania’s most popular rock bands; they evolved from a prog-rock group into a solid core of dedicated tunesmiths; they broke up, they reunited, had more monster…

Do I even have to defend this selection?  No.  You can argue that the greatest live concert ever captured to vinyl would be a live album by Bruce Springsteen or Peter Frampton.  But the truth is, for all intents and purposes, one of my favorite albums of all time is the classic concert by James…

My first memories of the pop-jazz quartet Manhattan Transfer go back to 1975, when I recall they had a summer television variety show of some success (they also had a hit song at that time, the gospel-influenced track “Operator”). But it wasn’t really until 1980, when my music teacher at the Street Academy of Albany,…

And thus begins a new series of blog articles. Some background.  From 1975 until approximately 2006, I was heavily involved in music and record collecting.  My collection grew to approximately 6,000 45’s and 3,000 albums, plus a ton of CD’s, cassettes, 8-tracks, 78’s, Edison Diamond Discs and the like. But over time, I realized that…