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June 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 48 – Boris Gardiner, “Everything To Me”
Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me, 1986 Nostalgia works in funny ways – it pulls you in at the weirdest times. I knew Boris Gardiner by fluke. One day in the library I saw a CD called Every Nigger Is A Star. It is the soundtrack to a film I haven’t seen. I took the CD […]Archive
May 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Spines: Backstory. Spines Live 1986.
Spines Backstory. Spines Live 1986. (Independent / Bandcamp) Celebrating their 40th anniversary as a band, Wellington’s Spines – still going, many different line-ups but always led by the mercurial songwriting of Jon McLeary – have dug deep into their archives to reveal a previously unreleased live album from 1986. It even features a few songs […]Archive
November 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 40 – Frank Zappa, “Jazz From Hell”
Frank Zappa, Jazz From Hell, 1986 Almost a trick question really – looking for the crap Frank Zappa albums that are good. His music lives in the vacuum of its cult endorsements. Ask the wives and girlfriends. Ask the bemused best friends of certain music nerds. Ask yourself. Is there an enjoyably Frank Zappa album? […]Archive
November 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 23
Bruce Hornsby and The Range, The Way It Is [Single] (1986) I’ve always loved this song. I respect Bruce Hornsby as a musician and have listened to a few of the things he’s done outside and around the album of the same name that of course features this as its title track. But ultimately I […]Archive
November 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 24
Bangles, Different Light (1986) I was obsessed with The Bangles. Maybe I still am actually. I’m a fan still at any rate. And this has always been my favourite album by them – the biggest number of their best songs.I have the Manic Monday single for the Prince connection and because it was possibly the song […]Archive
October 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 40
Boston, Amanda[Single] (1986) My mate worked in a CD store once and there was a flood and they had water-damaged CDs to give away – they played fine but the covers were ruined. He gave me a few albums and it was cool – got some jazz, some soul, some country, hip-hop. Also got Boston’s […]Archive
September 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 53
Madonna, Papa Don’t Preach [Single] (1986) When I was a kid and Madonna burst onto the scene I thought she was fantastic – and then very quickly grew self-conscious about that; I wasn’t meant to like her. So I didn’t really pursue fandom, never bought any of the records. But the big songs were inescapable. […]Archive
May 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 116
Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me (1986) I first learned about Boris Gardiner due to a random library-find, back in those busy toddler-caring days of finding some salvation by digging in the library’s music section. The album, Every Nigger Is A Star, a soundtrack album to a banned movie was the one. A fantastic album. Gardiner […]Archive
April 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 130
Amazulu, Amazulu (1986) Just the other day I was remembering Aswad – I pair them with Amazulu. Both British bands fusing a type of light reggae with pop, both big in the mid-80s, both beginning with ‘A’ – a lot of surface comparisons I guess. I pair them simply because I discovered them around the […]Archive
February 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Buddy Rich Big Band: Just In Time – The Final Recording
The Buddy Rich Big Band Just In Time – The Final Recording Gearbox He was Baby Traps; almost a circus freak, playing drums at 18 months old, a star by the age of four and from vaudeville and circus tricks to the golden era of the big band and to backing Sinatra – or Sinatra […]Archive
December 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman