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June 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: First Train Smokin

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band First Train Smokin musique de soliel When I first heard Captain Beefheart it was like nothing else I’d ever experience. I was about 12 and the song was Abba Zabba off that pulverising and brilliant debut, Safe as Milk, but I heard it on some 60s-music compilation that mostly […]
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December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 4

Rod McKuen / Anita Kerr / The San Sebastian Strings, The Soft Sea (1970) I’m a sucker. I go into opp shops and salvation army stores and dig through the weary old cardboard box of the same old classical-lite shite. And I sometimes think I’ve found a gem. And sometimes I have. I don’t revisit […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, 1970, Anita Kerr, LP, Opp Shop, Poetry, Record, Rod McKuen, Second Hand Store, Spoken Word, The San Sebastian Strings, The Sea, The Soft Sea, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 4, Vinyl ·

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November 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 26

David Bowie, The Laughing Gnome [Single] (1967) You quickly sort the true believers when you delve into David Bowie’s pre-Ziggy years. Or his David Jones years. Or really we’re talking about the bridging of them…some of the David Jones stuff became popular on the back of his world domination in the 1970s. I can take […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, A-side, B-side, David Bowie, David Jones, EP, LP, Record, Side A, Side B, Single, The Gospel According To Tony Day, The Laughing Gnome, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 26, Vinyl ·

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September 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Cream: Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, March 7th 1967 Sveriges Broadcast)

Cream Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, March 7th 1967 Sveriges Broadcast) Blue Cactus Cream. The great power trio. The great supergroup. British Blues Boom wunderkinds. They blazed a trail – and it can be hard to remember back what with Ginger now gone and Jack Bruce before him. And Clapton just drifting along into retirement – […]
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August 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 67

The Beach Boys, Wild Honey (1967) I have a few more Beach Boys albums to go but this was a nice find, recently. My favourite period for the band is 1967-1973 – they were out of the surfing phase and couldn’t rely on Brian at least not for brand new material all the time; so […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Aren't You Glad, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Darlin', I Was Made To Love Her, LP, R'n'B, Record, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 67, Vinyl, Wild Honey ·

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March 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 156

The Shadows, Jigsaw (1967) I fucking love The Shadows. On a level where I actually can’t understand it if you don’t. To me, if a person does not think The Shadows are super-fucking-great I’m forced to contemplate whether that person is even real. I mean – they breathe. Eat. Sleep. Shit. Sure. But are they […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Cliff Richard, Guitar, Hank Marvin, Instrumentals, Jigsaw, LP, Mono, Record, Sixties, surf-rock, Tennessee Waltz, The Shadows, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 156, Vinyl ·

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March 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 160

The Association, Insight Out (1967) Recently/ish I found this old compilation of 60s music which I loved when I was a kid; was a gateway of sorts. And now I get to love it all over again. One of the revelations was hearing Never My Love which was one of those songs I’d forgotten all […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Insight Out, LP, Never My Love, On A Quiet Night, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 160, Vinyl ·

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November 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 214

The Beach Boys, Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2 (1967) So many Beach Boys compilations. And I believe I’ve given a few away. But this was definitely one of the first Beach Boys records I owned – I have a feeling it was in fact the first. Which is probably why I’m still hanging […]
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November 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15 – Murry Wilson, “The Many Moods of Murry Wilson”

Murry Wilson, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson, 1967 Murry Wilson. Not a nice guy. Bitter hack – who was sure he was “a genius too”. Murry Wilson. Pretty sure he was the manager of The Beach Boys for a lot longer than he ever was – and written up as a bad guy who […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1967, Beach Boys, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Crap Albums I Love # 15, Easy Listening, Instrumental, Lawrence Welk, Mantovani, Many Moods, Murry, Murry Wilson, Shit That's Good, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15 – Murry Wilson, The Beach Boys, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson, Wilson, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 217

The Rolling Stones, Flowers (1967) I almost never feel like listening to The Rolling Stones these days – possibly because I’ve heard it all and heard it all for too long and too often. They were a band I really cared about for the longest time, but now it’s very rare I can make it […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1960s, 1967, B-Sides, Flowers, LP, Pop, Rarities, Record, Singles, Small Faces, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 217, Vinyl ·

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August 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 263 

The Young Rascals, Groovin‘ [Single] (1967) It’s funny – I only first heard the album “Groovin’” by The Young Rascals last year (as part of the 1001 Albums Challenge I decided to put myself through) but this song was big in my life because, at one point, the soundtrack to Tour of Duty was huge in my life. This was – massively – where I bonded with my […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1001 Albums, 1967, Flying Nun, Groovin', Single, Sueno, The Rascals, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 263, The Young Rascals, Tour Of Duty, Vinyl ·

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August 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 264 

Neketini Brass (1967) I’ve had to work hard to control myself from stopping the car when I see second-hand stores in small towns. I’d never get anywhere in life – literally, and otherwise – if I indulged that whim. So I drive on, nine and a half times out of ten. But when I do stop and have […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Brass, Herb Alpert, Horns, Kiwi, LP, Maori, Neketini, Neketini Brass, Nick Nicholson, NZ, Ray Conniff, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 264, Vinyl ·
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