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August 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Clint Mansell and Clint Walsh: Berlin
Clint Mansell and Clint Walsh Berlin Invada Records UK In 2014 Clint Mansell’s girlfriend died. He contacted his friend and fellow multi-instrumentalist Clint Walsh to help him recreate Lou Reed’s Berlin album. The idea came from Julian Barnes’ slim volume about grief. In that fabulous book Barnes lists the ‘lasts’ that he shared with his […]Archive
May 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Joan As Police Woman: Cover Two
Joan As Police Woman Cover Two Sweet Police LLC Where cover versions can fail is in overreaching and trying to tell you how the song should be, or, more often, dropping to their knees as if to say “we’re not worthy” repeatedly – basically: We know our version is not as good, we know we […]Archive
January 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Jeff Denson: Jeff Denson Live
Jeff Denson Jeff Denson Live Ridgeway Records Bassist, singer, composer Jeff Denson returns with his seventh album as a leader – his first live outing. And what a band. What a set of tunes. What a delight. Saxophonist Lyle Link, drummer Dillon Vado and pianist Dahveed Behroozi get deep inside these tunes with Denson a […]Archive
December 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 196
(The Byrds, The Byrds Play Dylan (1979) I can remember hearing this in the days before I really knew how to separate compilations from albums – and I thought man The Byrds really are hammering home the fact that they love covering Bob Dylan albums – now they’ve done a whole record of them! When […]Archive
December 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 110: Laibach – “Opus Dei”
Despite the Slovenian industrial band being around since the very start of the 1980s – and on record since at least the mid-80s I had not heard Laibach until the release of their 2003 opus, WAT. I kinda liked it. There was a world to discover. It arrived liked most musical letterbombs at that time […]Archive
February 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 441
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, The Fool On The Hill [Single] (1968) One of my all-time favourite Beatles covers is this wee lounge-classic by Sergio Mendes and his Brasil ’66 combo. Nothing fancy, a little bit cheesy, but just right. It works for me. I like it. I like a lot of Sergio’s Brasil ’66 […]Archive
July 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Los Straitjackets: What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets
Los Straitjackets What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets Yep Roc Records Los Straitjackets (originally The Straitjackets in the 80s, but after a bust-up they’ve been at it as Los Straitjackets for over 20 years now) is back with another set of surf-pop-meets-rockabilly instrumentals. The catch, this time, the album’s title being a […]Archive
April 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 11 – Five Favourite Cover Versions
Many years back – a decade ago at least, I reckon, the editor of the then-Real Groove magazine asked me to compile a list of five favourite cover versions; he never ended up using it but wrote back to tell me he thought my list was weird but cool. I liked that. You hardly ever […]Archive
April 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Framing Vinyl: The LP Cover as Artwork
One of the things that vinyl has in its favour – and you’ll always hear a vinyl enthusiast trot it out as one of the virtues of the format – is the cover artwork; it actually works, it actually is (or can become) art. The CD has a lot of faults and though it seemed […]Archive
March 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Rod Stewart: The Magic Years
I’ve been listening to a lot of Rod Stewart lately. And by that I mean The (first) Jeff Beck Group, Faces and Rod’s solo albums. Depending on where you are at with Rod Stewart you walked out after Smiler (or because of it) or A Night On The Town or Blondes Have More Fun – […]Archive
March 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman