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August 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #4 – Sheila E. “Sex Cymbal” 

Sheila E., Sex Cymbal, 1991 I was going to write about Candy Dulfler’s debut album, Saxuality which had long felt like a guilty-pleasure. On a very recent re-listen I decided maybe it was actually really good…and really good all along, but it definitely links, in my mind at least, with this record by Sheila E. There are some similarities […]
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June 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Now We Are Four: Sweetman Podcast’s 4th Birthday, yo! 

Each week I share a conversation that I’ve had with a musician or writer or artist, filmmaker, actor – a “creative” (and I loathe that term). We talk about who they are and how they’ve become that person, the steps they take, the art they make, the world they occupy – and whatever is on […]
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November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heroes Live: #4 – Bob Dylan

You will have to trust that I was going to write about Bob Dylan anyway. It’s time to mark him down in my files just as I have with Neil Young and Mike Nock and Paul Simon (and you can click those links to read the entries about each of them) in my series “Heroes […]
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October 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Great Kiwi Albums You Must Revisit: #4 The Islander

Some days I prefer Twist and Lament For The Numb – but The Islander is a special album for me, it’s always the first of Dobbyn’s albums I return to; the one that reminds me of his talent, of how his talent stretches far beyond the simple, crude criticisms of him as a sloganeering riff-writing […]
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October 12, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Classic Albums I Can’t Ever Listen To Again: #4 Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica

Trout Mask Replica is not an album, it’s conceptual art – like most conceptual art it fucking stinks. Because it exists to mock those who don’t get/don’t like it. Oh, I meant to start by saying I love the shit out of Captain Beefheart. The good Captain’s music gets better with time. Every time I […]
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September 25, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1274

Midnight Oil, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (1982) This is really where/when I got on board with Midnight Oil – though chiefly because of Power and the Passion – a big radio song here, a big single, and every time I heard it as a youngster there was the excitement of that drum-break. Wow! That was just so cool. […]
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