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November 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 25
Stevie Wonder, As [Single] (1976) I was about to kick this off by saying I’m on a Stevie Wonder kick currently. But then, I’m always on a Stevie Wonder kick. One of the most important music artists in (and of) my lifetime – which is to say his music has been in my heart, mind, […]Archive
October 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 36
ABBA, Dancing Queen [Single] (1976) I can’t lie – I really started to appreciate ABBA after I heard Elvis Costello’s little nod to them in his Oliver’s Army tune. If he liked them they must be good. Prior to that it was just radio music from when I was a young kid and everyone seemed […]Archive
July 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 83
Carpenters, A Kind of Hush (1976) This is how I know I’ve gone in (real) deep with the music of the Carpenters. They were by no means unimpeachable but between 1969-1974 they were a very safe bet. They knocked out those pop hits. Sugary sweet sometimes, sure. Also all the better for it on many […]Archive
June 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 112
V/A, Evita [Cast Recording] (1976) It’s not a blanket rule – but fuck I hate musicals. That said, I give it a chance every few years. I try. I wonder what I have maybe missed. There are some great musicals I love, there’s some musical theatre I can dig – at least in the moment, […]Archive
May 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 121
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Rastaman Vibration (1976) Having made the decision, albeit belatedly, to get all the key Bob Marley albums on vinyl (I have a few already so it’s not a particularly Herculean task) and this is one of the albums I didn’t listen to a lot at the time that I first […]Archive
April 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 128
Pam Ayers, Some Of Me Poems and Songs (1976) I’ve long been a fan of Pam Ayers – as a kid I would crack up at her voice; as much as the things she said it was the way she said them. And then those rhymes. Endless and fascinating and funny. She was one of […]Archive
February 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 166
Electric Light Orchestra, Olé ELO (1976) I possibly didn’t need this – since I am collecting up all of the ELO albums as I find them and already have that classic best-of – but I saw this in the store and that little lightbulb went off; I had never seen this on the shelf in […]Archive
February 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 170
Bob James, Three (1976) The truth is I was into Bob James before I knew I was into Bob James; before I knew who he was. The TV show Taxi had such an impact on me – its theme tune continues to – and then of course all the hip-hop and dance tracks that have […]Archive
October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 231
The Beach Boys, Rock And Roll Music [Single] (1976) It’s when you don’t really care about the A-side or the B-side and you own the parent album which has both songs on it anyway (and that’s also not great) that you realise you’re in pretty deep. This is me, in real time, with my latest […]Archive
August 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 259
J.J. Cale, Troubadour (1976) I was thinking just the other day about how this is one of my favourite J.J. Cale albums – and about how there are a small handful I still don’t really know. But this was not the first Cale album I heard. I had a compilation and one of the more recent […]Archive
May 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman