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April 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Completing the 1001 Albums Challenge 

I had the 2005 version of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – I’d owned it for years and had a flip through the pages, but never really studied it. And then someone asked me how many of the albums I had heard – was it half? Was it all? I figured the […]
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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 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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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 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 106: Scritti Politti– “Cupid & Psyche 85”

I had never heard this – well, dur, that’s what these posts are all about… But I do know Scritti Politti. My first reference was the Who’s That Girl soundtrack which mostly features Madonna songs (since it was a Madonna vehicle) but has a few other period song including one from Scritti. And the “comeback” […]
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March 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 47: David Ackles – “American Gothic”

Here’s one of those ones – I’d heard the name David Ackles, knew about him, knew – vaguely – what to expect, the sound, etc. I’m sure I’ve heard a few songs here and there but I do know I had never heard this – nor any of his albums right through. And wow, this blew […]
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