Having completed my “50 Albums in 50 Days” expansion of Mr. Chris Estey’s August 24th directive “to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on you”, I’ve decided to add a THIRD [slash] final batch of 25, in order to fill some remaining “gaps”—at least as I perceive such matters—in this, ahem, “map of my musical sensibility”!
I also want to nominate 25 MORE friends whom I’d love to see post their own sets of “25 albums that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me”! (Though of course NO ONE should feel the least bit obligated to do so.)
As before, I’ll be posting “just album covers without any explanation”, though I AM planning to craft and post a summary essay once this madness reaches its Ballardian “terminus”!
By the by, please feel free to follow the eventual links (in the comments) to EAST PORTLAND BLOG, where my indefatigable EPB editor, Ricky, has been re-posting these daily album selections—in an expansive layout where you can view ALL the variant album covers and aural media formats AT ONCE—plus a link to one song I’ve chosen to spotlight from each recording!
If you’ve missed any albums along the way, wish to revisit a particular selection, or would simply enjoy listening to the songs, you’ll find it MUCH easier to scroll back through these posts on EAST PORTLAND BLOG than to attempt such an endeavor via Facebook!
To simplify matters further, here’s a direct link to the “Tom Kipp” section of EPB, which presently contains/archives over 200 of my posts (on a wide variety of subjects!), going back to June 25th, 2010:
https://www.eastportlandblog.com/category/tom-kipp/
Today I nominate: Han Nachtrieb
Day 60:
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (ABC Records, US, LP, 1973)
Jim Croce: FROM THE ORIGINAL LP ALBUM: “LIFE AND TIMES” (ABC Records/Little LPs Unlimited, US, 6-cut 7-inch 33⅓ rpm promotional mini-album—for jukeboxes, 1973)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (ABC Records, US, re-sequenced quadraphonic 8-Track cartridge, 1973)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (ABC Records, US, re-sequenced cassette tape, 1973)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (Vertigo Records, Japan, LP, 1973)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (Vertigo/Philips Records, The Netherlands, LP, 1973)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (Union Records, Taiwan, pirate LP, 1973)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (ABC Records, US, 3¾ ips 4-Track reel-to-reel, 1973)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (ABC Command Quadraphonic, US, quadraphonic LP, 1974)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (Roadrunner/Lifesong Records, Benelux Countries, LP reissue, 1981)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES: DELUXE EDITION (Edsel Records, UK, 2 x compact disc reissue w/ 28-cut bonus disc—LIVE AT HARPER COLLEGE, 2015)
Jim Croce: LIFE AND TIMES (Philips Records, New Zealand, “Flashback Series”, budget-line LP reissue, release date unknown)
Note: This is the only album I’ve ever heard of being manufactured in the so-called “Little LPs” format! Anyone know of others? There HAVE to be others!
Purchased: By my mom during Fall 1973 in Havre, MT (LP).
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Day 60:
Jim Croce: “Roller Derby Queen” (1973)
