@brianflota.bsky.social
Humanities Librarian at JMU; co-editor of COMIC BOOKS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY; co-author of "Sustainable Futures for Comics Collections"; #FirstGen; Opinions mine, vinyl records, etc.
Canned Heat
01.03.2026 01:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1446: Nirvana, Incesticide (1992, 12”, US, DGC Records)
28.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1445: Ringo Starr, Photograph b/w Down and Out (1973, 7”, US, Apple Records)
28.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The best one of those “bad album cover” classics I own
Record #1444: The Ministers Quartet, Let Me Touch Him (1960s, 12”, US)
Record #1443: The Beatles, Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999, 12”, EU, Apple Records)
27.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my all-time favorite bands!
27.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1442: Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul (1978 reissue, 12”, US, Stax Records)
27.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1441: Vivian Girls, Wild Eyes b/w My Baby Wants Me Dead (2009 reissue, 7”, US, Wild World Records)
27.02.2026 14:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1440: Metallica, Kill ‘em All (1983, 12”, US, Megaforce Records)
26.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1439: Lucky Millinder’s Orch. with Sister Rosetta Tharp, Lucky Days 1941-1945 (1980, 12”, US, MCA Records)
26.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1438: Daryl Hall / John Oates, X-Static (1979, 12”, US, RCA Records)
26.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Here we go
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Record #1437: Joni Mitchell, Blue (1975 reissue, 12”, US, Reprise Records)
25.02.2026 19:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1436: George Harrison, Extra Texture (1975, 12”, US, Apple Records)
25.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1435: Head East, A Different Kind of Crazy (1979, 12”, US, A&M Records)
25.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1434: Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads (1988 reissue, 12”, US, Rounder Records)
24.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1433: Herbie Hancock, Future Shock (1983, 12”, US, Epic Records)
24.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1432: Van Halen, Jump b/w House of Pain (1983, 7”, US, Warner Bros. Records)
24.02.2026 14:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1431: Stereolab, Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (2012 reissue, 2x12”, US, 1972 Records)
23.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A couple of my colleagues -- and other great librarians -- contribute to this cool new book from Library Juice!
23.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Record #1430: Paul McCartney, No More Lonely Nights (1984, 12”, US, Columbia Records)
23.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have a French pressing from '77. That version is without "Submission" (which is on the reissue here).
21.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Record #1429: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (2020 reissue, 12”, US, Warner Bros. Records)
21.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Record #1428: Wings, Mull of Kintyre b/w Girls’ School (1977, 7”, US, Capitol Records)
21.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The GOAT
Record #1427: Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music (1975, 2x12”, US, RCA Victor)
Best album title ever
Record #1426: Spacemen 3, Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To (2018 reissue, 2x12”, US, Superior Viaduct)
Needless to say, I did not win that cool mil.
Record #1425: $1,000,000 Menu Song (1988, 5” flexidisc, US, McDonald’s)
Record #1424: Miles Davis, Miles Davis at Plugged Nickel, Chicago (1976, 12”, Japan, CBS/Sony)
19.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, there are lots of musicians who share their work on RYM.
19.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Awesome ambient record from a friend I met on RYM
Record #1423: Orp, In the Jungle (2025, 12”, Austria, Vienna2Day)