1973 USA 1st

1975 USA repress.  Last time around for this one, too.

Cover has special meaning as I visited the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park many, many times as a kid growing up in the Bay Area during the 50's and 60's and have been to that spot where the picture was taken so many times as well.  Always kinda trippy even as a kid.


I always liked The Airplane more than the Dead growing up.  Kinda like the are you a Beatle or a Rolling Stone thing.

Unknown 70's Los Angeles repress.  Last time around for this old friend with the new stylus.  Desert island album for me.

1974 UK 1st press

1977 USA repress

14 May 2021 Global release 50th Anniversary

2016 USA

She is the Queen of Reverb !

2019 USA 50th 

 kurtster wrote: It did.
Looks awesome. 

 kurtster wrote:
perusing thru your list....nice BTW....and saw this and thought "Dawnie" Iris!  from the Laurel Highlands, PA.

1979 USA reissue

1980's USA reissue

My first post with a picture on the new site since the old site seems to be now non functional.  Hope that it shows up.

1980's USA reissue

 Proclivities wrote: 
Finally finished it and yes this is an excellent compilation.  Well done and very listenable.  Most of it I have literally not heard for 50 years outside of the couple of obvious tracks.  Och's voice is so pleasant to listen to.  Upbeat even when the subject is grim. The liner notes are also most interesting.  Very detailed and brought back a ton of memories from back in that time and day.  Really glad that I stumbled on this one and grabbed it.

It was never released on CD

 westslope wrote: 
Umm, yes.  Actually, every time I drop the needle, I am recording.  Every album I've posted in this thread has been ripped.  Terabytes are cheap.  S O P is every side gets played (and ripped) at least three times.  1st pass is for setup and gets dumped.  2nd and 3rd passes are kept with the 3rd being the working master.  I've only done 3 & 4 last night.  I'll do 1 & 2 tonight.

re:  Phil Ochs

kurtster, Are you planning on ripping that album?  

 kurtster wrote:

That's a good compilation; I used to listen to it very often in the late '70s and early '80s.  I still have the vinyl - never found a CD version, though I a have a CD compilation of his Elektra years.

1976 USA  last of my new arrivals.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
Yes it is one of his best now that I have heard all of it now.  Girls Talk is the main song I was after.  Not necessarily after the promo pressing of the album.  Just got lucky.  One of the sweetest hooks of all time.  Huge airplay here in Cleveland.  Didn't know it was a Costello song until much later on.  This whole album is both very bluesy and hooky at the same time.  Right up my alley.  Costello's Veronica is also on my want list for similar reasons.

 kurtster wrote:
I bought that new!
Well not a promo.
I still have it.
One of his best.