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May 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Steve Miller Band: Live! Breaking Ground August 3, 1977
Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground August 3, 1977 UME Direct A genuine find from the archives this brand new authorised release is audio (and there’s a video streaming on Amazon too) of the Steve Miller Band in their prime. In fact this is the band as big as it would be – late 70s, […]Archive
November 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 13
Little Feat, Time Loves A Hero (1977) It was only recently that I was bemoaning the fact that I didn’t have all of the classic-era albums by Little Feat. Love that band. You read a word you’ve never read before – or hear someone say it and next thing it’s everywhere and you can’t work out […]Archive
October 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 30
Richard Clayderman, Richard Clayderman (1977) I think it’s true, as the old saying goes, that to own oneRichard Claydermanmay be regarded asa misfortune; to own more than one looks like carelessness. And though I was given this many years ago by my grandmother, who loved to go to second-hand stores and get any sort of […]Archive
October 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 34
Ramones, It’s Alive (1979) The Ramones are likeAC/DCfor me – in that it feels like they’ve always just been there. Doing the same song, serving it in the same way, the same setting. And I’ve been a fan forever but I’m not a hardcore, more a fairweather fan. In the case of both bands I […]Archive
September 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 47
Joni Mitchell, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977) Joni Mitchell does blackface on this album – or at least on the album cover. It’s not “musical blackface” at all, but it is musical genius – some of her most difficult, challenging and rewarding music is here. When I first heard it I really only loved a […]Archive
August 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 69
Carpenters, Passage (1977) Of all the Carpenters albums (and I’m aiming to collect the set) I was most surprised by this one – a recent addition, one I hadn’t heard all the way through until just very recently. A strange, strange album – and I love it. It’s a very weird record; exhaustion from all […]Archive
April 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 133
Daryl Hall & John Oates, No Goodbyes (1977) I did not need this album at all – a compilation of the great Hall & Oates Atlantic years; their early/mid-70s blue-eyed soul classics. I did, however, want it. So I got it. A bargain it was too. And arriving at the right time – pre-lockdown. Hall […]Archive
March 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 144
Commodores, Greatest Hits (1978) Very recently I bought a cheap copy of the self-titled Commodores album; the band’s fifth record. It’s good – I love the Commodores and it’s got some of their biggest hits on it. Well, actually, the copy I received has HEAPS of their hits…buried inside it was a second LP – […]Archive
March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 151
Mark Williams, Greatest Hits (1977) I missed the Mark Williams buzz – the first time around at least. I was there for the “comeback” – Show No Mercy and then fronting Dragon (he does a good job, it’s a tired old act now though, they’re a Tribute Act to Themselves, nothing more). I did catch […]Archive
March 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 154
Commodores, Commodores (1977) Not their debut, in fact it arrives right smack bang in the middle of their meteoric chart run as commercial radio funk kings of the 1970s. Oh how I love the Commodores – and this, their fifth studio album has some of their mega-hits (Brick House), best ballads (Easy) and maybe their […]Archive
November 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman