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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 37 – Ma$e, “Welcome Back”
Ma$e, Welcome Back 2004 Mase. He was the new protégé after Biggie bought it. And back when Puff Daddy was blowing smoke up other people’s arses, not just his own. Mase hit in big with Harlem World and with his guest appearances in the late 1990s. Then he went soft. Welcome Back was his “comeback” […]Archive
September 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #6 – Spin Doctors, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite”
Spin Doctors, Pocket Full of Kryptonite, 1991 Look, I either atoned for sins or tried to explain my weird attraction to (some of) the music of the band, Spin Doctors when I wrote this. But here we go again I guess… I’m fascinated with the idea that you can like a band, or album at […]Archive
March 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 136: Les Rythmes Digitales – “Darkdancer”
I know the name Stuart Price – from his remix and production duties, some big-name affiliations. And I knew – from reading about him – that he’d done a bunch of things under various one-man-band aliases and so on but I never lined up Les Rythmes Digitales with him – and I can’t say I ever knew this album. But the sound of it is […]Archive
March 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 135: Skunk Anansie – “Post Orgasmic Chill”
I was never that into Skunk Anansie – and for petty reasons I think. My flatmate was into them. He talked about her sexy bald head. He wasn’t the only one. I was working in a music store at the time. And people loved this band. Or this person. They weren’t sure which – was she the artist or was it […]Archive
March 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 134: Orbital – “Snivilisation”
I could easily have told you that I was quite a big Orbital fan – I enjoyed them. Still do – in theory. But I never play their albums. I knew some singles. I knew some moments, I had a compilation album – I liked some of the clips, I liked when they were featured. I had friends […]Archive
February 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 128: Stereo MC’s – “Connected”
There’s a wince of nostalgia at the title track and though I know a few more songs on here and by Stereo MC’s this is my first time hearing the Connected album. And I definitely didn’t need to hear this. It’s a bit like – I imagine – recommending something by Ronny Jordan or The Seahorses or Ocean Colour Scene. Just dated shit from a time when you had […]Archive
February 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 124: Happy Mondays – “Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches”
I was just slightly too young to really get into much of the British music from the very late 80s and into the early 90s; there was some, sure. But the whole Second Summer of Love-thing didn’t mean a great deal to me – I liked some music videos I saw on music TV and […]Archive
February 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122: The Shamen – “En-Tact”
Barriers of entry. You just need to dive in – mostly. But sometimes it helps if you’re there at the right time. And with anything dance-music related I feel that’s most certainly the case, for the most part anyway. I love a lot of Daft Punk’s music because I hear it always thinking about how I heard […]Archive
January 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 118: The Young Gods – “L’eau Rouge (The Red Water)”
You arrive at The Young Gods due to name-drops and connections including David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails and Swans – and maybe they sound, at least a little bit anyway, like all three of those artists combined. Okay, you might have arrived at them back in the day without being prompted but for me it […]Archive
January 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 117: fIREHOSE – “fROMOHIO”
Not only is this the first time I’ve heard it – it’s also the first fIREHOSE album I’ve ever heard. But I was always interested in the band. Because I’m fairly interested in what Mike Watt gets up to with music. I remember reading about fIREHOSE in the music mags and from there I checked […]Archive
December 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman