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April 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 132
Professor Bruce Biggs, Maori For Beginners (1972) Ka pai! The Vinyl Countdown is a document of every LP I listen to, brand new discoveries and old-old favourites; extremely pre-loved, previously abandoned or with the shrink-wrap having just been removed it’s all here at The Vinyl CountdownArchive
April 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 140
Joan Armatrading, Whatever’s For Us (1972) I saw Joan Armatrading three times – three different shows – before she retired from the live arena, and while I was (and am) a fan, I didn’t really plan to see her three times. It was all assignments. That last time though – really was lovely, I remember […]Archive
March 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 146
The Beatles, The Essential Beatles (1972) I didn’t grow up with this odd-af compilation – but I know a lot of people that did. I did grow up with The Beatles though – I sometimes wonder why anyone wouldn’t. And the compilation I grew up with (as well as the albums in general) was Beatles […]Archive
February 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown #168
Leon Russell, Carney (1972) I love Leon Russell. LOVE! And I missed the chance to see him play – couldn’t justify the travel, but wish I had gone. I have a couple of records – Shelter People which I dig big time, in many ways my introduction to his fearsome talent as a singer/songwriter and […]Archive
September 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 253
Rare Earth, Willie Remembers… (1972) Rare Earth was the first all-white band to have a hit on the Motown label. They had some hits, even, by covering things by The Temptations – you know basically white-washing the whitest of the black labels. The woke crowd would have a field-day with this shit today. And (probably) […]Archive
June 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 292
Ennio Morricone, Un Uoma Da Rispettare [OST] (1972) Having followed whatever I can find by Ennio Morricone across the last two decades I’m now at a place where if I see something – I buy it. Even if I haven’t heard it. So it was with this, recently. It made me actuall watch the film – in English it’s called The Master Touch. And it’s not […]Archive
April 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 322
Joe Cocker, Double Cocker Power! (1972) I have a lot of Joe Cocker compilations – which kinda sits neatly alongside the fact that I saw Joe Cocker live in concert a lot. That was largely the occupational hazard of being a live gig reviewer in a time when Cocker would tour here a lot. But he was always enjoyable. I […]Archive
August 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Ezra Furman: Lou Reed’s Transformer (33 1/3)
Lou Reed’s Transformer (33 1/3) Ezra Furman Bloomsbury Academic The death of the album – so greatly exaggerated. And the 33 1/3 series of books in tribute to classic albums (old and new) continues to trot out the titles. Here, musician Ezra Furman looks at Lou Reed’s Transformer album in this volume of the same […]Archive
April 7, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 49: War – “The World Is A Ghetto”
War – another band I really only know from compilations, from hearing at other people’s places, recommendations that I’ve never quite followed up on. But as with the previous entry in this series (The Temptations) this is so totally in my wheelhouse as to be a gross oversight not knowing it already – and I’m […]Archive
April 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 48: The Temptations – “All Directions”
I certainly do love The Temptations but I’d always kinda wondered how they went from the obvious Motown soul-pop of their early magic to a slightly harder-edged, psychedelic funk. Look, it was all great to me – but it didn’t flow well across compilations, and that’s really how I knew them. Then I got a […]Archive
March 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman