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April 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 145: Liars – “They Were Wrong, So We Drowned”

I do remember Liars though not much about them – and doubt I ever heard any of their albums – certainly not this – their second. Look, maybe it’s good, but I feel very much the anti-climax as this is the end of the challenge for me, the final thing in the book – the final album on the list […]

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April 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 144: Cee-Lo Green – “Cee-Lo Green…Is The Soul Machine”

Cee-Lo Green…he’s a bit like the Elton John or Sting or Eric Clapton of his day really, in that people now might struggle to believe how potent, how good he once was. Since everything happens a lot quicker now this happened a lot quicker to Cee-Lo. There he was in Goodie Mob killing it and then across his first couple of solo albums […]

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April 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 143: Christina Aguilera – “Stripped”

Even though she-e-e-eeeeeeeeeeeee———-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee is very good, I thi-e-e-eeei-iiiiii-eeeee-iiiii-eeeee—nnnnk it isn’t the right time to be just discovering Christina Aquilera. And I course I’m not just discovering her, I was aware-e-air-e-aire-e-aire-aire-aire-aire-airrrrr of her and her oversing-e-in-e-ing-e-ing-eing at the tie-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime. But I can’t say I’ve ever heard a full album by her. Until now-e-ow-e-ow-eow-eow-e-ow-eow-eow-e-ow-e-ow. Stripped is sorta ironically titled too – as it’s carrying far too much. The […]

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March 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 138: Limp Bizkit – “Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavored Water”

A lot of this world’s problems and most of its very bad music comes from white dudes with daddy issues. And I was reminded of that finally listening to Limp Bizkit’s breakthrough album. I was reflecting on how lucky I was to be completely above (and beyond) nu-metal in all its numb-skull variations. I was ‘too […]