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October 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 94: Orange Juice – “Rip It Up”
I hadn’t ever heard an Orange Juice album – but I know the songs; I was hipped to them only later though, the compilation Edwyn Collins & Orange Juice: A Casual Introduction 1981/2001 was the thing that set it all off for me. By then I’d heard some Edwyn Collins songs I liked a lot […]Archive
October 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 93: Haircut One Hundred – “Pelican West ”
So, the band Haircut One Hundred (or Haircut 100) totally passed me by. I really don’t know them at all. I know the name, I’ve seen it mentioned, the first two songs here felt instantly familiar – probably have heard them out and about, as part of compilations, in DJ sets, etc – but I […]Archive
October 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 92: Madness – “The Rise & Fall”
It was probably The Young Ones that introduced me to Madness – and madness! And when I watched them, the first few times, I was a (very) young one and I thought it was one big long series of 12 eps, not two separate sets of six eps each. So I was impressed that Madness […]Archive
September 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 91: ABBA – “The Visitors”
I grew up hating ABBA without really listening to them. Truth is I loved Dancing Queen and The Winner Takes It All and Fernando – and then, a few years on, when my brother returned home from uni with a copy of ABBA Gold I was sold. But that’s mostly all I’ve ever needed. I […]Archive
September 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 89: X – “Wild Gift”
I absolutely expected to hear a few more duds doing this challenge. But shit it’s been good. A lot of great albums I knew about and therefore kinda knew I’d missed and a lot of things I genuinely didn’t know about or certainly didn’t know just how great they would be. I guess there’ll be […]Archive
September 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 88: Soft Cell – “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret”
I think the theme for any of the albums I hear for the first time in this challenge across the years 1980-84 is going to be that I know about the artist, even quite like the artist, but given my age I’m familiar with the radio hits and I only ever explored further by following […]Archive
September 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 87: The Go-Go’s – “Beauty And The Beat”
I was quite into some of the Belinda Carlisle songs – and through that I found out about how she was once part of a band called The Go-Go’s, many years on I had a double-compilation of Go-Go’s material; pretty good. But no curiosity to check out individual albums. Flash forward many years – and […]Archive
September 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 86: Heaven 17 – “Penthouse and Pavement”
Another example of why this challenge has been good for me. I know of Heaven 17 of course – I even know Temptation very well and a few others. But I have never listened to a Heaven 17 album, at least not knowingly; at least not until I finally sat down with Penthouse and Pavement […]Archive
September 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Swing Out Sister: Almost Persuaded
Swing Out Sister Almost Persuaded Miso Here’s the tenth studio album by British pop duo Swing Out Sister – and their first in a decade. You remember them best from their breakout hit of 1986, er, “Breakout”. And since then it’s been a refinement of that approach really, they call the new music – and […]Archive
September 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 85: Siouxsie and the Banshees – “Juju”
There I was just ten albums back in this challenge saying that I really needed to listen to more Siouxsie and The Banshees because I’d been gifted a compilation album and was digging it – and had some memories of posters and singles and video clips and bit and bobs from back in the day […]Archive
August 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman