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  • Here we are at the final results show! The Project 365 Daily Dose of Vinyl TOP Lists week! Today we bring you my fav album covers from  the [...]

    TOP 20 ALBUM COVERS of 2012 ~ my project 365 Daily Dose of Vinyl Results.

    January 8, 2013
  • Howdy record blog folks. I find myself with an hour at work this am free. Just enough time to catchup on almost a week’s worth of record [...]

    They Can’t Take That Away From Me.

    September 21, 2012
  •  Frankie Laine had me at the cover art photo. Shaking hands with the Queen? Now that’s GOTTA land an artist in the TOP 20 album cover art [...]

    A Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II

    September 13, 2012
  • Wow, this is like 1977 future robot music. A real attempt at early techno but then it turns classic 70s rock, so confusing to listen to. I will [...]

    irobot. The Future is here.

    September 6, 2012
  • Bachman Turner Overdrive NOT FRAGILE. When looking at the classic rock 1974 photos of these guys on the cover art, I believe they are working it [...]

    Mullets from Winter-Peg

    August 6, 2012
  • Let me open with “I’m totally not a fan of Bruce Cockburn’s music” but I think the man has done tons for Canada and the [...]

    a very awarded Canadian, that I’m not (but should be) into

    August 2, 2012
  • We take you to 1986 for another folk, 80s, rethrift Bob Dylan album. The album cover does get placed in the TOP 20 album cover art though. [...]

    knocked out loaded

    July 15, 2012
  •   If I were a wood sprite or a forest nymph in the early 60s, this would have been my soundtrack. Music as trippy as the singers bowl hair [...]

    harmonies fit for wood sprites

    July 13, 2012
  • 500 miles is my fav on this album. It’s just so raw and sad and beautiful. Have a listen below. I used to finger pick it on my guitar at [...]

    500 miles of goodness that is Peter Paul & Mary

    July 6, 2012
  • If a womyn answers, hang up the phone. I love you darlin’, but I’m not free. ((direct song quote. I kid you not)). 12 top Western [...]

    If a Womyn answers, hang up the phone.

    June 28, 2012
  •               This FUNTASTIC HITS record for kids was another thrown in with another HITS record. It’s [...]

    Funtastic !

    June 27, 2012
  • Nana Mouskouri 1962. My sweety found this one at the thrift in Victoria. I love the cover art, it’s actually fabulous cover album art. [...]

    an international talent

    June 13, 2012
  • I can’t type fast enough ~ to tell you all that I scored an unopened plastic covered She’s So Unusual ~Cyndi Laurper album!! Actually [...]

    Deflowering Cyndi Lauper *or* Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

    June 6, 2012
  • Some people may feel threatened by a polka album but not this girl. I love it. Give me MORE! Switching gears from epic soundtracks let’s [...]

    The ski village of alpine chalets was littered with argyle sock wearing men

    April 25, 2012
  • SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, my record blog friends.. SATURDAY FRICKEN NIGHT FEVER. Happy Saturday. My fingers tell me to edit my words yet my disco [...]

    “Are you as good in bed as you are on that dance floor?”

    April 21, 2012
  • Happy Friday record blog friends. I actually worked today (I know right.. I realize how “lucky” I have been while building my [...]

    Bali Ha’i may call you ~ or I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair

    April 20, 2012
  • “These folks are hefty in the musical sense. It should be “retrospective” instead of reminiscence. It’s classic jazz [...]

    hefty in the musical sense

    March 22, 2012
  • It’s Sunday and you know what that means… all thingss Johnny Cash or all things God. Arguably interchangeable.  This classic rock [...]

    Aqualung My God

    March 18, 2012
  • HAPPY (Johnny Cash) SUNDAY BLOG music lover FRIENDS! Today we bring you a special Jesus tribute record day. 9 Records, all headed to one lucky [...]

    the God squad 80s hairbands gettin’ right with Jesus.

    March 4, 2012
  • HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY LOVERS & DUETS! Well, it’s no secret that my Nana was a HUGE Lawrence Welk fan. We used to go to her house [...]

    Champagne Memories and Caviar Dreams !

    February 14, 2012
  •     CANADIAN TALENT LIBRARY! This rejected album from the Comox Community Radio CKDA 1969 collection is also a rethrift for us. Though this [...]

    2 more reasons to heart Nova Scotia

    February 13, 2012
  • Love Tide for a Monday.  Nelson Riddle and his orchestra bring us smooth, engaging love favourites. See photos for more details. Love the cover [...]

    a choice bit of exotica

    February 6, 2012
  • Sergio Mendez Brazil ’77. wow. What can I say? This went into the RETHRIFT category 2 minutes into listening, however it also went straight [...]

    I just wet myself

    February 3, 2012
  • WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL ~ super beautiful cover art. It even came in plastic that I ripped off when I felt the fuzzy texture on the front. I found [...]

    Like a lot of good things these days, the English started it all

    January 29, 2012
  • C’MOOOOON! This takes awards for TOP 20 ALBUM COVER ART of 2012. My husband was over the moon for this photo. Music for Pussy Cats? meow! [...]

    Music for Pussy Cats (& you know who you are)

    January 26, 2012
  • JOHNNY CASH SUNDAYS presents…   As soon as the needle hit the record, I suspected this gem would be in my TOP 30 of 2012 but I’ll [...]

    a jesus music festival attended by 180,000

    January 8, 2012
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