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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
April 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 142: Destiny’s Child – “Survivor”
Though you couldn’t escape the big singles from this at the time – and I didn’t – it appears you could escape the album. I survived without hearing it in full right up until 2019. Beyonce is everywhere, or was until recently, and will be again no doubt. And the thing that launched her was Destiny’s Child – and though […]Archive
April 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 141: Silver Jews – “Bright Flight”
I think this might be the only Silver Jews album I hadn’t heard. Funny. Not that I was ever a massive fan of the band – if that was the case I would have heard this album for a start. Just record store days really. You sought out the indie stuff, the cool stuff, the interesting stuff. That, plug peak days reviewing records. I […]Archive
March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 140: Red Snapper – “Our Aim Is To Satisfy”
I really don’t think I knew anything about this – not only this album but even the band Red Snapper. Now this is weird to me for one reason: Anything even vaguely Acid-Jazz related in and around the years 1997-2003 was entirely my bag. My bag clearly wasn’t big enough to keep this in it… So it’s time and place […]Archive
March 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 139: Mike Ladd – “Welcome To The Afterfuture”
Mike Ladd is a rapper I’ve been aware of for a while – yet I never heard this. It’s fantastic. Everything I’ve heard him do – or heard him on – has been great. I love his albums with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. He’s one of the people you can point to as furthering hip-hop, taking it beyond anger […]Archive
March 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 135: Skunk Anansie – “Post Orgasmic Chill”
I was never that into Skunk Anansie – and for petty reasons I think. My flatmate was into them. He talked about her sexy bald head. He wasn’t the only one. I was working in a music store at the time. And people loved this band. Or this person. They weren’t sure which – was she the artist or was it […]Archive
March 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 134: Orbital – “Snivilisation”
I could easily have told you that I was quite a big Orbital fan – I enjoyed them. Still do – in theory. But I never play their albums. I knew some singles. I knew some moments, I had a compilation album – I liked some of the clips, I liked when they were featured. I had friends […]Archive
March 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 133: Drive Like Jehu – “Yank Crime”
Elsewhere you might read all about how Drive Like Jehu was this classic, underrated or seminal band and that their second and final album Yank Crime was just absolutely the one – a forgotten or lost classic, a gem, a must-have, a must-hear. Etc… But you will not hear that hear. This is landfill-hardcore of a time and place. That time […]Archive
March 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 131: Girls Against Boys – “Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby”
So, every now and then when I’m wondering why I’m still going through this book and trying to listen to every album listed that I haven’t previously heard something genuinely surprising will come along. There’s been albums that are great by artists I thought I didn’t care about, there’s been some things, too, that I’d […]Archive
February 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman