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April 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Completing the 1001 Albums Challenge 

I had the 2005 version of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – I’d owned it for years and had a flip through the pages, but never really studied it. And then someone asked me how many of the albums I had heard – was it half? Was it all? I figured the […]

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April 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 145: Liars – “They Were Wrong, So We Drowned”

I do remember Liars though not much about them – and doubt I ever heard any of their albums – certainly not this – their second.  Look, maybe it’s good, but I feel very much the anti-climax as this is the end of the challenge for me, the final thing in the book – the final album on the list […]

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August 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Challenge: You Gotta Have Goals…Or Else You End Up With This As Your Goal

I’ve had this book for a while – I have the 2005 version, it’s been updated I gather. I don’t know that it’s really any sort of resource, but it is the sort of book that someone like me owns. I haven’t ever read it right through, and I haven’t really ever had a plan […]