Top 18 List

  • The Beatles - Revolver
  • Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
  • The B-52's - S/T
  • The Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold
  • The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics
  • Little Richard - Little Richard's Grooviest 17 Original Hits
  • V/A - Pebble Volume One
  • The Ramones - Rocket To Russia
  • The Yardbirds - The Yardbirds (aka Roger The Engineer)
  • Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
  • The Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The Chesterfield Kings
  • Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight
  • The Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
  •  The Who - My Generation
  • Blondie - Parallel Lines
  • Chuck Berry - Golden Decade Volume One
  • Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
  • The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy

Articles by Stu Rutherford

OOPS! What Happened To The Mix???

Back when I was a teenager circa 1979, I was a huge Beatles fan and was slowly adding their albums to my meager LP collection. I knew early on about the differences between the UK and US releases and was seeking out and buying the UK versions. I had a few good sources for import […]

CRITICAL CUT: Just Like Me

Actually, it was two simultaneous guitar solos flailing away over a cool “Louie Louie”-ish chord progression which may not sound like much on paper but to me was pure garage rock nirvana.

One Man’s Trash: Anatomy of a Defaced LP Cover

A few years back, my musical compadre, Mike Sin & I shared a table at the Jersey City Record Riot selling some unwanted vinyl and CDs from our collections.  As I was going through the records I had set aside to sell and putting price stickers on them, I came across a copy of the […]