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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 – […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
August 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman