Album cover for Black Sabbath: Master of Reality. Black Sabbath is in purple letters with black background on top and Master of Reality is black embossed along the bottom

You introduced me to my mind. . .before stoner metal was a subgenre, someone's older brother was blasting this on repeat and telling you to "stay the fuck out of my room" Black Sabbath Master of Reality 1971 Warner bros BS 2562 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Black Sabbath: Paranoid pictured is a weird dude in a helmet with a shield and a sword at night in the woods. Weird guy pictured is blurred

Back on my bullshit. Paused for Oz. Black Sabbath Paranoid 1971 Warner bros BSK 3104 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Black Sabbath self titled. The picture is of a green woman, perhaps a witch, in some trees in front of a cottage and barn.

The mighty acorn that grew the forest of heavy metal. Black Sabbath self titled 1970 Warner Brothers 1871 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Big Country - The Crossing. Album cover is blue with compass rose on top and name of band in the center and title below

The early 80s had a slate of electronic dependent "natural" sounding bands a la U2. B.C. used some processing and ebow to make guitars sound like pipes Big Country The Crossing 1983 Mercury PolyGram records 812 870—1 M—1 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Beyonce - Cowboy Carter or part ii. Pictured is Beyonce nude but covered by a red white and blue sash, smoking a cigar. The background is black.

someone told me that this Daiquiri place I went to in New Orleans was her favorite spot, I think I had banana. Bey does Americana Beyoncé Cowboy Carter 2024 Columbia 196588949319 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Pat Benatar - In the heat of the night. There is a picture of Pat Benatar in a black dress leaning against a window frame

From age 5 to 7 I heard Heartbreaker like every day on FM and it still shreds. Cover of John Cougar's I Need a Lover. Pat Benatar In the heat of the night. 1979 Chrysalis CHE 1236 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Belafonte - The Midnight Special. It is a black cover with red lettering and red interior with a picture of Belafonte center right.

My favorite version of midnight special, super smooth, featuring Bob Dylan playing harmonica on his (almost) very first recording Belafonte The Midnight Special 1962 RCA Victor LSP-2449 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Belafonte. Picture of Harry Belafonte in a pink shirt with a green background

Spirituals and material that shows Belafonte's deeply religious side. More reprocessed stereo unfortunately. Harry Belafonte Belafonte 1956 RCA Victor LSP-1150(e)
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Album cover for Harry Belafonte - Calypso. There is a picture of Harry Belafonte in a green shirt with a flamingo pink background.

You know this one. DAYO! This is a stereo reprocessed from monophonic copy, which is silly and sounds bad. Hope the stereo has a mono sum button because you should do that immediately. Harry Belafonte Calypso 1956 RCA AYL1-3801(e) #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Cover for the Harry Belafonte album "Mark Twain" and other folk favorites. There is a picture of Belafonte on the lower right side inside of a depth weight. There are two other weights on the lower left and a river boat on the upper left. The background color is blue and green waves.

I have a few Harry Belafonte records. Righteous dude and his voice is really easy to listen to. Harry Belafonte "Mark Twain" and other folk favorites 1954 RCA Victor LPM-1022 #nowplaying #musicsky #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola a painting of a green apple next to a window

Parallel to Led Zeppelin but instead of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, it's Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, long jams and Elvis covers Jeff Beck Beck-Ola 1969 Epic (2023 repress) BN26478 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover #musicsky

Album cover for The Beatles Abbey Road pictured is the band crossing a street in a crosswalk

Oh man finally through my Beatles. Always one of my favorites, side 2 is quite a journey The Beatles Abbey Road 1969 EMI Capitol SO383 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour pictured are the Beatles in weird animal costumes with star script spelling Beatles and rainbow script spelling Magical Mystery Tour

Oops out of sequence. Made for a TV show but includes some absolute bangers Roll up! The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour 1967 EMI Capitol 2835 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for The Beatles self titled. The White Album. Pictured is a white album cover with ring wear and a small embossed The Beatles on the lower right

The Beatles tribute to America. It was influenced by the Beach Boys,Jamaica, the West, the blues, the civil rights movement, tin pan alley and the Who thrown in The Beatles self titled "The White Album" 1968 Apple via Capitol records SWBO-101 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles dressed in formal band costumes immersed in a background collage of famous figures

The one, the only:
The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 Capitol/EMI MAS2653 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for The Beatles Revolver. Featuring an illustration collage of the artists

The Beatles Revolver 1966 Capitol/EMI records ST2576 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Worn copy of the album The Beatles - Rubber Soul. Band pictured diagonally, evidence of ring wear on the album cover

Gonna blast through the Beatles section. My downstairs neighbor in an apartment I used to live in gave me this well loved Mono copy of The Beatles Rubber Soul 1965 Capitol records T2442 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for The Best Of The Beach Boys Vol. 3 black cover with band pictured in group photo bottom right and also in a row vertically sideways parallel to the spine

Intentionally listening to my whole collection, I'm starting to realize I've gotten rid of a lot of really great records and am left with😩 odd assortment "stereoized" European import The Best Of The Beach Boys Vol. 3 1963-68 Capitol EMI #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Beach Boys - Party! An orange cover with snapshots of the Beach Boys and their friends at a "party"

After the success of their holiday album, the next year they had to come up with a follow up, thus the contrived "party" which was studio made. stupid as this sounds, this is my favorite Beach Boys album
Beach Boys Party! 1965 Capitol MAS2398 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Barnaby Bye - Room to Grow Band on cover seated among houseplants wearing over sized clothes

early 70s pop, lots of vocal harmonies. Twins in the band! I bought it for the interesting cover of She's Leaving Home Barnaby Bye Room To Grow 1973 Atlantic SD7273 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album Cover for The Band - Stage Fright. A wash of rainbow colors with titles

The pinnacle of the rollicking barn sound that made up an act ostentatious enough to call themselves The Band. Engineered by Todd Rundgren mixed by Glyn Johns The Band Stage Fright 1970 Capitol records SW-425 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Sibylle Baier Colour Green. Pictured is sepia photo of Baier in a field

reel to reel recordings from Germany in the '70s, unearthed in 2006 by Orange Twin Records with help from J. Mascis unaffected but beautiful vocals ala Astrud Gilberto, Leonard Cohen simple personal melancholy songs Sibylle Baier Colour Green #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine Pictured is Ayers in a yellow T-shirt in front of a yellow background

Everybody Loves the Sunshine. . . everybody loves the ARP synthesizer. Super groovy jazz funk 'Sunshine' goes with a sunny day as advertised
Roy Ayers Ubiquity Everybody Loves the Sunshine 1976 Polydor PD-1-6070 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover of The Association Greatest Hits! Picture of 5 band members next to a rock by a pond with lots of flora and greenery around

Great sound layered dude vocals are cloying at times they were a hot LA band on par with the mamas and the papas Cherish was my parents song which is corny The Association Greatest Hits 1969 Warner Seven Arts records WS1767 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Joan Armatrading - Show Some Emotion. Joan Armatrading profile pictured on cover

4th album. Willow is pretty cool, love the opener Glyn Johns makes it a very pleasant sounding record mostly by getting out of the way Joan Armatrading Show Some Emotion 1977 A&M records SP4663 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Album cover for Duane Allman an anthology. Picture of Duane Allman fishing.

Posthumous collection of Duane Allman . . . standouts: Aretha doing the Weight and Wilson Pickett's Hey Jude,
didn't know he was on Layla weird
Duane Allman an anthology Capricorn records 1972 2CP 0108
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Album cover of AC/DC's Back in Black. A completely black ring worn and scuffed record album cover.

Arguably one of the greatest comebacks and a second peak, mourned the passing of Bon, introduced a new singer, reassured fans that they were still:
AC/DC Back in Black Atlantic 1980 SD16108
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Cover of AC/DC album Highway To Hell featuring band members Malcolm Young, Phil Rudd, Angus Young, Bon Scott and Cliff Williams. Angus Young is pictured with horns

Left big brother for Mutt Lange. Arguably their peak, until their next era AC/DC Highway To Hell Atlantic 1979 SD19244 promo
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I remember seeing this in my old man's records and being equal parts intrigued and terrified. . .Live '78 world tour stuff. Opens with Riff Raff one of my favorites AC/DC If You Want Blood You Got It Atlantic SD19212 #nowplaying #myrecordcollection #athroughz #covertocover

Handful of AC/DC albums to get through . . .Dirty Deeds . . .
Atlantic 1976 American release SD16033 probably their most predatory
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