24 Apr 21
What was on your list (if you can remember back that far)...
I had
Supertramp’s Breakfast in America
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pat Benetar
Cheap Trick
Sting’s Police
Devio’s Are We Not Men
Fame
etc
What was on your list for a penny before you paid full price every month?
I know that I was in so much trouble when my parents found out I subscribed...LOL!
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24 Apr 21
Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears II
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - The Soft Parade
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Three Dog Night - debut album
Steppenwolf - can't remember which album
24 Apr 21
@relentless-red saidEvery American magazine in the 70’s and 80’s had an advert for it and a far too easy subscription process. I remember I did get in trouble because the regular price was more than I could afford with the $ from my after school job. I think my mother made me write a letter to Columbia Records explaining that I was a minor and did not have her permission to join...I never heard from them again but I did get to keep the 12 cassette tapes...
@hakima
Don't think subscribing to Columbia records was a thing in the UK. Certainly not something I had heard of.
24 Apr 21
@great-big-stees saidMy main man, Stees...
Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears II
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - The Soft Parade
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Three Dog Night - debut album
Steppenwolf - can't remember which album
You couldn't have left out "Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd, could you? Yikes!!
And let us not forget, Allman Brothers, "Live at Fillmore East". The two best albums ever made, IMO
24 Apr 21
@hakima saidYou robbed them. 😃
Every American magazine in the 70’s and 80’s had an advert for it and a far too easy subscription process. I remember I did get in trouble because the regular price was more than I could afford with the $ from my after school job. I think my mother made me write a letter to Columbia Records explaining that I was a minor and did not have her permission to join...I never heard from them again but I did get to keep the 12 cassette tapes...
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28 Apr 21
@great-big-stees saidParty at Stees' place!
Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears II
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - The Soft Parade
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Three Dog Night - debut album
Steppenwolf - can't remember which album
- Joined
- 06 May 15
- Moves
- 27445
28 Apr 21
@hakima saidThat was about my era (born late 1959), but I don't really remember the Columbia offer. I do remember those bands and their top songs and have some of their albums, though.
What was on your list (if you can remember back that far)...
I had
Supertramp’s Breakfast in America
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pat Benetar
Cheap Trick
Sting’s Police
Devio’s Are We Not Men
Fame
etc
What was on your list for a penny before you paid full price every month?
I know that I was in so much trouble when my parents found out I subscribed...LOL!
For the British Massive: When I worked in a bookstore in Mankato, Minnesota in the early 1980s our store carried New Musical Express, in which I learned that The Jam had broken up. I was young at the time and didn't understand how such things could happen.
Around that same time, based on a short 1.5 column-inch review in Stereo Review, I took a chance on Murmur by R.E.M.
28 Apr 21
@hakima saidDo you remember 8-track? they were cool, but cassette was smaller and supposedly better.
Every American magazine in the 70’s and 80’s had an advert for it and a far too easy subscription process. I remember I did get in trouble because the regular price was more than I could afford with the $ from my after school job. I think my mother made me write a letter to Columbia Records explaining that I was a minor and did not have her permission to join...I never heard from them again but I did get to keep the 12 cassette tapes...