Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my look back at a record I owned when I was in high school in the '70s, an oddball 2-LP compilation album called Heavy Metal.
It was, um, not a heavy metal collection.
My recollection of the Heavy Metal collection was originally posted here in 2018 as part of my Rescued From The Budget Bin! series, which celebrates records I scored outta the cheap-cheap bins at various vinyl emporiums over the years. Rescued From The Budget Bin! falls within the slightly broader category of My LP Appreciations, which also includes Love At First Spin, Groove Gratitude (A Gift Of Music), The Best Of Everything (about greatest-hits sets), and the used-record series Second-Hand Sound, plus The One That Got Away! (about records I wanted but never owned) and Lost In The Grooves (about underappreciated albums). Oh, and one discussion of my favorite Beatles album, which wasn't part of any specific series. Here are all of the other LP appreciations posted so far:
THE BARRACUDAS: Drop Out With The Barracudas
THE BEATLES: The Beatles (aka The White Album)
THE BEATLES: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: Glad All Over Again
THE BOBBY FULLER FOUR: The Best Of The Bobby Fuller Four
THE HOLLIES: The Very Best Of The Hollies
THE MONKEES: Headquarters and The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees
THE MONKEES: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.
THE RAMONES: Subterranean Jungle
THE (BAY CITY) ROLLERS: Elevator
I also wrote one (1) new album review:
This list doesn't include any of the dozens of albums I reviewed during my twenty-year stint as a freelancer for Goldmine, though I have reprised a few of them to satisfy the content-hungry demands of a daily blog.
Heavy Metal remains the only various-artists collection to appear in My LP Appreciations. There were many such hodgepodge platters that meant a lot to me--Geef Voor New Wave, Do It Now, Times Square, Troublemakers, That Summer!, Experiments In Destiny, The History Of British Rock, and a little thing called Nuggets, among others--and I really oughtta give some of these the full-length treatment in future editions of My LP Appreciations.
But for now, we cast the Rescued From The Budget Bin! spotlight on a double-album budget set that lumped Black Sabbath, The Grateful Dead, War, Yes, and The Eagles together as an unlikely gathering of not-really-headbangers (except for Sabbath, anyway). Heavy Metal is the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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