Rich Bird
@inkstainedrich.bsky.social
“Mitte advocatos, arma et pecuniary.” ~ W. Zevon
Cartoon pig in a past life. Lapsed piper, recovering journo, card-carrying non-conformist. Trying to be a better dad. Marilyn name drops me in "Some Like It Hot."
I spin/post vinyl, DH right & vote blue. 💙
Cartoon pig in a past life. Lapsed piper, recovering journo, card-carrying non-conformist. Trying to be a better dad. Marilyn name drops me in "Some Like It Hot."
I spin/post vinyl, DH right & vote blue. 💙
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Mike Ness and Co. looking like the Rockabilly Ramones. I leaned hard into this album in the 50-CD shuffle for years.
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Mike Ness and Co. looking like the Rockabilly Ramones. I leaned hard into this album in the 50-CD shuffle for years.
Social Distortion (eponymous) 1990 Epic
I think this is a 2008 press. First heard the “Ring of Fire” cover at a cosmic bowl on the north side of Chicago in the late ‘90s. That was my gateway to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
I think this is a 2008 press. First heard the “Ring of Fire” cover at a cosmic bowl on the north side of Chicago in the late ‘90s. That was my gateway to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Social Distortion (eponymous) 1990 Epic
I think this is a 2008 press. First heard the “Ring of Fire” cover at a cosmic bowl on the north side of Chicago in the late ‘90s. That was my gateway to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
I think this is a 2008 press. First heard the “Ring of Fire” cover at a cosmic bowl on the north side of Chicago in the late ‘90s. That was my gateway to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Dropkick Murphys “Blackout” 2003 Hellcat Records
2023 pressing. “Worker’s Song” rips, and it hits hard tonight. Love that Ken Casey is still out there fighting.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
2023 pressing. “Worker’s Song” rips, and it hits hard tonight. Love that Ken Casey is still out there fighting.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Dropkick Murphys “Blackout” 2003 Hellcat Records
2023 pressing. “Worker’s Song” rips, and it hits hard tonight. Love that Ken Casey is still out there fighting.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
2023 pressing. “Worker’s Song” rips, and it hits hard tonight. Love that Ken Casey is still out there fighting.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
The Rolling Stones “Live in Texas ‘78” 2012 Mercury Universal
Heard lots of classic rock at a funeral luncheon today. The decedent asked to have the Beatles’ song, “I’ll Follow the Sun,” played. I don’t have that.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Heard lots of classic rock at a funeral luncheon today. The decedent asked to have the Beatles’ song, “I’ll Follow the Sun,” played. I don’t have that.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The Rolling Stones “Live in Texas ‘78” 2012 Mercury Universal
Heard lots of classic rock at a funeral luncheon today. The decedent asked to have the Beatles’ song, “I’ll Follow the Sun,” played. I don’t have that.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Heard lots of classic rock at a funeral luncheon today. The decedent asked to have the Beatles’ song, “I’ll Follow the Sun,” played. I don’t have that.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
The Pogues “Rum, Sodomy & the Lash”
My day tomorrow is about a funeral, and we’re driving to another state to be there. This isn’t the Pogues’ best funeral album, but respect “Dirty Old Town,” as a love song and a dirge. The guy that wrote it: Kirsty McCall’s Da.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
My day tomorrow is about a funeral, and we’re driving to another state to be there. This isn’t the Pogues’ best funeral album, but respect “Dirty Old Town,” as a love song and a dirge. The guy that wrote it: Kirsty McCall’s Da.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
December 6, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The Pogues “Rum, Sodomy & the Lash”
My day tomorrow is about a funeral, and we’re driving to another state to be there. This isn’t the Pogues’ best funeral album, but respect “Dirty Old Town,” as a love song and a dirge. The guy that wrote it: Kirsty McCall’s Da.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
My day tomorrow is about a funeral, and we’re driving to another state to be there. This isn’t the Pogues’ best funeral album, but respect “Dirty Old Town,” as a love song and a dirge. The guy that wrote it: Kirsty McCall’s Da.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
The Clash “Sandinista!” 1980 CBS
Just watched a great AppleTV+ Beastie Boys live/doc, and the surviving members credited The Clash as their muse for genre blending/shifting.
I get it. 👍🏻
Also, binging this before the next season of “Our Next Dumb War.”
#NowSpinning #VinylSky ##Vinyl
Just watched a great AppleTV+ Beastie Boys live/doc, and the surviving members credited The Clash as their muse for genre blending/shifting.
I get it. 👍🏻
Also, binging this before the next season of “Our Next Dumb War.”
#NowSpinning #VinylSky ##Vinyl
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Clash “Sandinista!” 1980 CBS
Just watched a great AppleTV+ Beastie Boys live/doc, and the surviving members credited The Clash as their muse for genre blending/shifting.
I get it. 👍🏻
Also, binging this before the next season of “Our Next Dumb War.”
#NowSpinning #VinylSky ##Vinyl
Just watched a great AppleTV+ Beastie Boys live/doc, and the surviving members credited The Clash as their muse for genre blending/shifting.
I get it. 👍🏻
Also, binging this before the next season of “Our Next Dumb War.”
#NowSpinning #VinylSky ##Vinyl
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (original motion picture soundtrack) 2025 Rhino
This was a Record Store Day pick by my awesome wife. Clear vinyl, finally matches my crystal ball. John Williams nailed this mood, setting the table for the next seven movies.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
This was a Record Store Day pick by my awesome wife. Clear vinyl, finally matches my crystal ball. John Williams nailed this mood, setting the table for the next seven movies.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (original motion picture soundtrack) 2025 Rhino
This was a Record Store Day pick by my awesome wife. Clear vinyl, finally matches my crystal ball. John Williams nailed this mood, setting the table for the next seven movies.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
This was a Record Store Day pick by my awesome wife. Clear vinyl, finally matches my crystal ball. John Williams nailed this mood, setting the table for the next seven movies.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
John Prine “Common Sense” 1975 Atlantic
Feels like the right album for that weird Friday after Thanksgiving. Your sleep schedule is jet lagged, and the leftovers are narcoleptic carb bombs.
But Handsome Johnny is your Sherpa back to Monday basecamp. Follow the rope.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Feels like the right album for that weird Friday after Thanksgiving. Your sleep schedule is jet lagged, and the leftovers are narcoleptic carb bombs.
But Handsome Johnny is your Sherpa back to Monday basecamp. Follow the rope.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
John Prine “Common Sense” 1975 Atlantic
Feels like the right album for that weird Friday after Thanksgiving. Your sleep schedule is jet lagged, and the leftovers are narcoleptic carb bombs.
But Handsome Johnny is your Sherpa back to Monday basecamp. Follow the rope.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Feels like the right album for that weird Friday after Thanksgiving. Your sleep schedule is jet lagged, and the leftovers are narcoleptic carb bombs.
But Handsome Johnny is your Sherpa back to Monday basecamp. Follow the rope.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Simon & Garfunkel “Greatest Hits” 1972 CBS Records
For y’all who’re homeward bound for T-Day - please remember Paul and Art’s advice from their episode of “Delicious Dish”: Yeah, we f’d it up. Go w/Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Parsley is weak sauce. Ditch it).
🍗🦃🍗
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
For y’all who’re homeward bound for T-Day - please remember Paul and Art’s advice from their episode of “Delicious Dish”: Yeah, we f’d it up. Go w/Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Parsley is weak sauce. Ditch it).
🍗🦃🍗
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Simon & Garfunkel “Greatest Hits” 1972 CBS Records
For y’all who’re homeward bound for T-Day - please remember Paul and Art’s advice from their episode of “Delicious Dish”: Yeah, we f’d it up. Go w/Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Parsley is weak sauce. Ditch it).
🍗🦃🍗
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
For y’all who’re homeward bound for T-Day - please remember Paul and Art’s advice from their episode of “Delicious Dish”: Yeah, we f’d it up. Go w/Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Parsley is weak sauce. Ditch it).
🍗🦃🍗
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Shel approves, and clued me in: no real deep cuts here, just tunes you’ve been fed since high school.
This library copy belong to somebody who played it and loved it a lot.
This library copy belong to somebody who played it and loved it a lot.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Shel approves, and clued me in: no real deep cuts here, just tunes you’ve been fed since high school.
This library copy belong to somebody who played it and loved it a lot.
This library copy belong to somebody who played it and loved it a lot.
Boston (eponymous) 1976 Epic/CBS
I know the hits from classic rock radio and the cover from every Columbia House records and tapes club ad ever.
Never actually heard the LP.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #LibrariesRock
I know the hits from classic rock radio and the cover from every Columbia House records and tapes club ad ever.
Never actually heard the LP.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #LibrariesRock
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Boston (eponymous) 1976 Epic/CBS
I know the hits from classic rock radio and the cover from every Columbia House records and tapes club ad ever.
Never actually heard the LP.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #LibrariesRock
I know the hits from classic rock radio and the cover from every Columbia House records and tapes club ad ever.
Never actually heard the LP.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #LibrariesRock
Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) 2018 Hollywood Records
Library loan. I’ve had Queen’s greatest hits on CDs since high school. I drew a cartoon about Freddy/Queen in college, This may be the first time I’ve ever heard clean on vinyl. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #Queen
Library loan. I’ve had Queen’s greatest hits on CDs since high school. I drew a cartoon about Freddy/Queen in college, This may be the first time I’ve ever heard clean on vinyl. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #Queen
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) 2018 Hollywood Records
Library loan. I’ve had Queen’s greatest hits on CDs since high school. I drew a cartoon about Freddy/Queen in college, This may be the first time I’ve ever heard clean on vinyl. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #Queen
Library loan. I’ve had Queen’s greatest hits on CDs since high school. I drew a cartoon about Freddy/Queen in college, This may be the first time I’ve ever heard clean on vinyl. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #Queen
Big Audio Dynamite “This Is Big Audio Dynamite” 1985 CBS
I need to sit with this album longer. The printed lyrics are insanely hard to read. On a couple of tunes they don’t lead to where the verses and chorus are. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
I need to sit with this album longer. The printed lyrics are insanely hard to read. On a couple of tunes they don’t lead to where the verses and chorus are. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Big Audio Dynamite “This Is Big Audio Dynamite” 1985 CBS
I need to sit with this album longer. The printed lyrics are insanely hard to read. On a couple of tunes they don’t lead to where the verses and chorus are. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
I need to sit with this album longer. The printed lyrics are insanely hard to read. On a couple of tunes they don’t lead to where the verses and chorus are. 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Steve Goodman “Artistic Hair” 1983 Red Pajamas Records.
Got a haircut today. Don’t get a haircut anywhere where I don’t close my eyes and hear “East St. Louis Tweedle-Dee.” 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Got a haircut today. Don’t get a haircut anywhere where I don’t close my eyes and hear “East St. Louis Tweedle-Dee.” 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Steve Goodman “Artistic Hair” 1983 Red Pajamas Records.
Got a haircut today. Don’t get a haircut anywhere where I don’t close my eyes and hear “East St. Louis Tweedle-Dee.” 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Got a haircut today. Don’t get a haircut anywhere where I don’t close my eyes and hear “East St. Louis Tweedle-Dee.” 🧵
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Dead Kennedys “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables” 1980 Cherry Red/IRS
This is a fairly new pressing on the Manifesto label. 45 years later, the track list reads the same as some new teen punk band’s set list. Except “California UA” would be a Newsome campaign theme.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
This is a fairly new pressing on the Manifesto label. 45 years later, the track list reads the same as some new teen punk band’s set list. Except “California UA” would be a Newsome campaign theme.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Dead Kennedys “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables” 1980 Cherry Red/IRS
This is a fairly new pressing on the Manifesto label. 45 years later, the track list reads the same as some new teen punk band’s set list. Except “California UA” would be a Newsome campaign theme.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
This is a fairly new pressing on the Manifesto label. 45 years later, the track list reads the same as some new teen punk band’s set list. Except “California UA” would be a Newsome campaign theme.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
The Dead Poets are curious about their first Christmas. Gwendolyn, Seamus and Shel are going to put the “Holy $@&%!” in the holidays.
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The Dead Poets are curious about their first Christmas. Gwendolyn, Seamus and Shel are going to put the “Holy $@&%!” in the holidays.
Plastics “Welcome Back” 1981 Island Records
Influential Japanese new wave band. They were signed and released in the states, championed by David Byrne of Talking Heads, as well as the B-52s.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Influential Japanese new wave band. They were signed and released in the states, championed by David Byrne of Talking Heads, as well as the B-52s.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Plastics “Welcome Back” 1981 Island Records
Influential Japanese new wave band. They were signed and released in the states, championed by David Byrne of Talking Heads, as well as the B-52s.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Influential Japanese new wave band. They were signed and released in the states, championed by David Byrne of Talking Heads, as well as the B-52s.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Anyway, these guys killed at that show, so I bought the record. I talk a lot about the Chicago scene, but ZBs were churning out crisp, top-shelf hard core punk in the heart of Indiana in the early ‘80s.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Anyway, these guys killed at that show, so I bought the record. I talk a lot about the Chicago scene, but ZBs were churning out crisp, top-shelf hard core punk in the heart of Indiana in the early ‘80s.
Lead singer of The Crombies, Mike Park, also plays the bagpipes and we were both in the Chicago Stockyard Kilty Band for a while. I got there early to see Mike’s set, and he found me later and gave me his backstage pass.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Lead singer of The Crombies, Mike Park, also plays the bagpipes and we were both in the Chicago Stockyard Kilty Band for a while. I got there early to see Mike’s set, and he found me later and gave me his backstage pass.
Zero Boys “History Of” 2009 Secretly Canadian
🧵 I had never heard of these guys, but they were one of the openers for Naked Raygun during a two-night stand to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Metro in Chicago. The other opener was The Crombies …
#NowSpinning #vinylsky #Vinyl #punk #ZeroBoys
🧵 I had never heard of these guys, but they were one of the openers for Naked Raygun during a two-night stand to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Metro in Chicago. The other opener was The Crombies …
#NowSpinning #vinylsky #Vinyl #punk #ZeroBoys
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Zero Boys “History Of” 2009 Secretly Canadian
🧵 I had never heard of these guys, but they were one of the openers for Naked Raygun during a two-night stand to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Metro in Chicago. The other opener was The Crombies …
#NowSpinning #vinylsky #Vinyl #punk #ZeroBoys
🧵 I had never heard of these guys, but they were one of the openers for Naked Raygun during a two-night stand to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Metro in Chicago. The other opener was The Crombies …
#NowSpinning #vinylsky #Vinyl #punk #ZeroBoys
Maybe I posted this before and forgot, but it didn’t occur to me that Warren Zevon and R.E.M. were listening to The Georgia Satellites who were all over MTV a few years before they recorded this album.
Celebrities, they’re just like us.
Celebrities, they’re just like us.
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Maybe I posted this before and forgot, but it didn’t occur to me that Warren Zevon and R.E.M. were listening to The Georgia Satellites who were all over MTV a few years before they recorded this album.
Celebrities, they’re just like us.
Celebrities, they’re just like us.
Hindu Love Gods (eponymous) 1990 Giant/Reprise.
Back on my $hit: Zevon edition. This is one of the first albums I identify with college because a friend introduced it to me, and it was “new” music from artists I’d heard, but not together, and these were covers.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Back on my $hit: Zevon edition. This is one of the first albums I identify with college because a friend introduced it to me, and it was “new” music from artists I’d heard, but not together, and these were covers.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Hindu Love Gods (eponymous) 1990 Giant/Reprise.
Back on my $hit: Zevon edition. This is one of the first albums I identify with college because a friend introduced it to me, and it was “new” music from artists I’d heard, but not together, and these were covers.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Back on my $hit: Zevon edition. This is one of the first albums I identify with college because a friend introduced it to me, and it was “new” music from artists I’d heard, but not together, and these were covers.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Warren Zevon “Excitable Boy” 1978 Elektra/Asylum
Missed the Rock and Roll HOF last night, but I caught a short clip of Letterman’s induction speech for WZ. Do find it if you’re of a mind. Touching, funny words.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Missed the Rock and Roll HOF last night, but I caught a short clip of Letterman’s induction speech for WZ. Do find it if you’re of a mind. Touching, funny words.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Warren Zevon “Excitable Boy” 1978 Elektra/Asylum
Missed the Rock and Roll HOF last night, but I caught a short clip of Letterman’s induction speech for WZ. Do find it if you’re of a mind. Touching, funny words.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl
Missed the Rock and Roll HOF last night, but I caught a short clip of Letterman’s induction speech for WZ. Do find it if you’re of a mind. Touching, funny words.
#NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl