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November 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15 – Murry Wilson, “The Many Moods of Murry Wilson”
Murry Wilson, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson, 1967 Murry Wilson. Not a nice guy. Bitter hack – who was sure he was “a genius too”. Murry Wilson. Pretty sure he was the manager of The Beach Boys for a lot longer than he ever was – and written up as a bad guy who […]Archive
November 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 14 – Harry Nilsson, “Flash Harry”
Harry Nilsson, Flash Harry, 1980 I’m such a Harry Nilsson fan that when someone told me a wee while back that Flash Harry, the last album released in his lifetime, was a bit of a dud I was straight off to buy the LP and I jumped right in. I fell in love with it […]Archive
November 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 13 – Guns N’ Roses, “Chinese Democracy”
Guns N’ Roses, Chinese Democracy, 2008 Obviously I was the perfect age to be a Guns N’ Roses fan – you can be a fan of any music at any age, but it was my timing to be getting turned onto the band at a time when I was learning so much about rock and […]Archive
October 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 12 – Oasis, “Wibbling Rivalry”
Oasis, Wibbling Rivlary, 1994 Technically, it’s a single. It was released as a single back in 1994 – even though it’s an interview. I believe it’s the highest-charting “interview” ever. It is Liam and Noel, the Gallagher brothers of Oasis locked in a lunatic-rant against one another. It’s hilarious, embarrassing, stupid and invigorating. It was […]Archive
October 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 11 – The Beach Boys, “The Beach Boys Love You”
The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Love You, 1977 It’s funny what hearing the album far removed from its initial (release) context can do right? I love The Beach Boys and they have some dreadful albums – and I love those too. But I had never heard “Love You” until nearly 40 years after it […]Archive
September 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 10 – The Rolling Stones, “Undercover”
The Rolling Stones, Undercover, 1983 I’ll always love the Rolling Stones of the 1980s – because that’s when I met them; met their music that is. A car-trip down south and the Rolled Gold compilation was my introduction to their early greatness, a documentary celebration their then seemingly impressive 25-year history filled in the 70s […]Archive
September 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 9 – BBM, “Around The Next Dream”
BBM, Around The Next Dream, 1994 The short-lived “supergroup” BBM was basically the Cream reunion that Eric Clapton wasn’t interested in, so they subbed in Gary Moore. There had been a Cream get-together ahead of this and then a documented one a decade after – but this was, briefly, an exciting thing. Particularly because it […]Archive
September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #8 – Bob Dylan, “Under The Red Sky”
Bob Dylan, Under The Red Sky, 1990 You can get hooked on the wrong album at the right time – if you’re new to an artist with back-catalogue you sometimes used to put yourself through the pain of really working hard to appreciate their dud-new-album because it arrived right at the time when you were […]Archive
September 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #7 – The Velvet Underground, “Squeeze”
The Velvet Underground, Squeeze, 1973 Traitor albums! My cousin told me that Led Zeppelin’s Coda album was not to be listened to because it was “a traitor album” – he surely meant a posthumous album; they existed before Coda, there have been thousands since. But I liked his attempt at purity. Is the faithful […]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
August 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman