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February 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 125: Gang Starr – “Step In The Arena”

This is the sort of straight-up banger that makes me pleased I signed up for and carried on this ridiculous ‘Challenge’. Here I am going through old albums I missed at the time. Mostly finding gems. A few duds. A few ‘who really cares’, a few ‘you had to be theres/time/place’  but mostly finding gems…then there’s something like this. You’d […]
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February 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 124: Happy Mondays – “Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches”

 I was just slightly too young to really get into much of the British music from the very late 80s and into the early 90s; there was some, sure. But the whole Second Summer of Love-thing didn’t mean a great deal to me – I liked some music videos I saw on music TV and […]
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February 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 123: Digital Underground – “Sex Packets”

Yes, yes, I know The Humpty Dance – because who doesn’t? Even people who are sure they don’t know that or maybe don’t recognise the title do actually know that song. But I had never heard the whole album. I had heard one or two other Digital Underground tracks, but never a whole album – and this, their debut, is one of […]
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February 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122: The Shamen – “En-Tact”

Barriers of entry. You just need to dive in – mostly. But sometimes it helps if you’re there at the right time. And with anything dance-music related I feel that’s most certainly the case, for the most part anyway. I love a lot of Daft Punk’s music because I hear it always thinking about how I heard […]
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February 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 121: Jungle Brothers – “Done By The Forces of Nature”

I know the Jungle Brothers. Love them. But I know them only from single tracks. From their overall sound, from their inclusion in mixtapes and compilations, DJ sets too. I had never heard any of their albums but as soon as I heard this I loved it. Not just the content (the feel and flow) but the production. This album […]
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January 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 120: Barry Adamson – “Moss Side Story”

I already know I’ll be listening to this a lot more – I love it. Instantly. Which is no great surprise. I used to have a few Barry Adamson solo albums – and have followed most of his work and appearances. Anyone that can play with the range of artists and engage with a range of audience such as he […]
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January 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 119: Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck – “Djam Leelii”

Baaba Maal was a name I learned when I worked in The CD Store. I learned a lot then – world music especially. I knew some stuff already, was well versed in a bit of African, South American and Indian music – but there’s so much. Mansour Seck is a name brand new to me. […]
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January 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 118: The Young Gods – “L’eau Rouge (The Red Water)”

You arrive at The Young Gods due to name-drops and connections including David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails and Swans – and maybe they sound, at least a little bit anyway, like all three of those artists combined. Okay, you might have arrived at them back in the day without being prompted but for me it […]
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January 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 117: fIREHOSE – “fROMOHIO”

Not only is this the first time I’ve heard it – it’s also the first fIREHOSE album I’ve ever heard. But I was always interested in the band. Because I’m fairly interested in what Mike Watt gets up to with music. I remember reading about fIREHOSE in the music mags and from there I checked […]
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January 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 116: Queen Latifah – “All Hail The Queen”

I was going to say that I was very much Team Neneh Cherry back in this day – but a) I still am. And b) it wasn’t about choosing sides. I just mean that – for whatever reason – I never listened to Queen Latifah. I was aware of her, heard a song or two, […]
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December 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 115: Dwight Yoakam – “Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room”

I remember in the very early 1990s or possibly right at the end of the late 80s – might even have been New Year’s Eve programming – seeing a video clip from Dwight Yoakam and I thought it was cool. The rest of the family did not. They are not country music fans. At all. […]
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December 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 114: Happy Mondays – “Bummed”

Again, Happy Mondays occupy a strange space for me. I was never a fan. And never really not-a-fan at the same time. I had some mates that were into them – but the whole Madchester/Second Summer of Love thing passed me by, I guess I was a bit young to care about it – or […]
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