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June 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 104
Fleetwood Mac, Need Your Love So Bad [Single] (1969) A Facebook chum messages. Says he’s found a double-up in his collection and would I like to have it. It’s only Need Your Love So Bad by Fleetwood Mac. Of course I’d fucking love it! It arrives – and it plays just fine. Any tiny little […]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
October 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 239
A message about SAMOA from Air New Zealand Geez, if it wasn’t for the cover image the title might look like a warning or something with those chosen block-capitals. It’s one of those flexi singles – a promotional item from/for Air New Zealand. And the only real info I found about it is in that […]Archive
January 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 343
Mark Knopfler, Going Home / Wild Theme [Single] (1983) The theme from Local Hero was a big deal before I ever heard the soundtrack and long before I saw the film. The soundtrack – I love. It got me hooked on Mark Knopfler’s soundtrack work, and film scores in general really. But as a Dire […]Archive
September 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 504
Ian Stewart, Piano for Dancing [EP] (1958) The world of second-hand stores is full of these sorts of things – wee curios – old EPs and singles and 78s and 45s and things…and it’s dime a dozen (and often it’s pretty much exactly that, price-wise). Dashed hopes, daunted dreams, forgotten magic. Or just junk. One […]Archive
September 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 505
The New Existentialists, Elton John/Mysteries of the Worm [Single] (2017) The New Existentialists – one of a handful of terrific bands from George D. Henderson (The Puddle, The Spies, The Amps, The And Band) has a new single out. I was lucky enough to get a copy (ltd ed. 300 copies only – order here!) […]Archive
August 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Golden Dawn: DJ Set (Friday, September 8)
Auckland – I will be making my first trip of the year to see you next Friday, September 8. And it’s been the thing to do the last couple of years, hook up a wee DJ set at Golden Dawn. So I’m doing it again…Friday, September 8 I’ll be on the 5-8pm shift, Ben Salter […]Archive
August 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 520
Nat ‘King’ Cole, Night Lights (1957) A fairly random purchase this – a wee ep from Nat ‘King’ Cole, I like Nat ‘King Cole – how could you not? And even though I do already own some of his recordings – and have listened to plenty more – I have no doubt I bought this […]Archive
February 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Velvet Underground’s Loaded: Loaded/Fully Loaded, 45 Years On And Still Going…
Those four studio albums by The Velvet Underground all made a huge impact on me. But the sentimental favourite is Loaded – it was the very first CD I purchased. I was a tape buyer, right through until the early-1990s, I wasn’t going to give up that tape collection…I had a tape-deck in my car […]Archive
July 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 671
The Chipmunks, Chipmunk Punk (1980) We’ve all, I’m sure, done that thing of playing records at the wrong speed – for a giggle. I was hooked on that when I was a kid. The S==L==O==W sound of a 45 played at 33, and the zippy-quick-funny sound of the opposite, a 33 played at 45. And […]Archive
April 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman