40 Year Itch: Stop a Minute

J. Geils Band : Wait

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   From their double live album Blow Your Face Out!, released on my dad's 40th birthday, April 22, 1976, the J. Geils Band brought out this chestnut from their debut album. At the time Faye Dunaway's husband , Peter Wolf,  rivaled Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger as rock's greatest frontman. After a while Magic Dick's harmonica blowing might grate on your nerves but this is still one of greatest live albums of all time.

40 Year Itch : Nightmares

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  Boston's greatest bar band gets back to the basics on Nightmares..and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle, released in September of 1974. Riding the #12 hit , "Must Have Got Lost", Nightmares reached the Top 30. The album is packed with punchy tunes as well as a breathless Magic Dick spotlight on "Stoop Down  #39". And that album cover is one of the best of the entire decade!