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November 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 16
The Staple Singers, Turning Point (1984) I love checking out the “out of place” albums by a heritage act – sixties and seventies groups that ‘failed’ in the 1980s…that sort of thing. The Staple Singers were making gospel gems and spirituals through the late 1950s and early 1960s and then political funk and soul in […]Archive
September 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 46
Elaine Paige and Barbra Dickson, I Know Him So Well [Single] (1984) I once attended an Elaine Paige concert – and I was there waiting. In the role of the reviewer. So I took out a copy of one of Joan Baez’ memoirs (something I was reading at the time). I read a few pages, […]Archive
July 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 91
Sheena Easton, A Different Heaven (1984) For a couple of years there right in the very mid-80s Sheena Easton was everywhere and everything. I was right on board with that too. I was a big fan. I loved her with Prince and with the songs he gave her – but it was more than that. […]Archive
July 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
“Weird Al” Yankovic: The Idiots Are Winning (Live 1984)
“Weird Al” Yankovic The Idiots Are Winning (Live 1984) Shockwaves To my knowledge there’s never been an official standalone live-concert-album release from “Weird Al”. And this certainly isn’t – this is a bootleg, an old radio broadcast of Al and band’s appearance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest in 1984.Archive
April 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 136
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend (1984) It’s the greatest-selling reggae album of all time and the first significant posthumous hits collection featuring the killer singles by Bob Marley & The Wailers and, for my money, it’s one of the all-time greatest single-disc best ofs for and by any artist. It’s both the token reggae […]Archive
March 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Orwellian Equality
When everyone learned that David Cameron got an absentee blowjob from the carved off face of a porcine animal it was 2015 – it wasn’t the worst thing that David Cameron has done. And besides, many of us had already seen the 2011 TV show episode satirising it all and had not rested on our […]Archive
February 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 164
Van Halen, Panama [Single] (1983) The first Van Halen stuff I would have heard would have been this era – the 1984 album, a masterpiece; one of several from the band. And this song – Panama – what an anthem, a driving classic (by which I mean not only is it a great song to […]Archive
November 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 16 – Paul McCartney, “Give My Regards To Broad Street”
Paul McCartney, Give My Regards To Broad Street, 1984 John Lennon makes a good greatest hits – Paul McCartney less so. With Paul it’s an album-by-album thing; he doesn’t excerpt well. Maybe because his biggest solo hits have been the “cheese” that turns so many off him. There’s certainly a lot of buried treasure in […]Archive
October 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 238
Savage Progress, Burning Bush [Single] (1984) I have no idea where this came from – funny the things that turn up in a collection. I haven’t bought that many bulk-lots off others, I’ve had a couple of donations of old collections…I can usually track exactly where I am and where I was and why something […]Archive
September 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 256
Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak (1984) How do you explain how great Laurie Anderson is – or even who and what she is as an artist. Polymath. Well, that’s a start. As for me – and a start with Laurie Anderson. I don’t even know. She’s just someone that’s always been there. Artist. Multifaceted and multi-layered. […]Archive
February 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman