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May 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 60: Earth, Wind & Fire – “That’s The Way Of The World”

There are some bands you know about, you like – maybe you’d even say you love them – but all you know is the Greatest Hits album, or the big singles. And for me Earth, Wind & Fire is a great example of this. I’ve known about them my whole life – I’m sure my […]

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June 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young + Promise of the Real: Earth

Neil Young + Promise of the Real Earth Reprise/Warners Good ole, weird ole Neil – he’s nothing if not that happy-hippie that’s forever ornery-seeming, wilful and whim-following, he’s a bag of contradictions – so it makes sense, as only it could in Neil’s world, to give up a life-long love of marijuana smoking and then […]

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January 2, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1440

The Pharaohs, In The Basement (1972) I’m always baffled when people read my blog posts and tell me I’m out of date, out of touch, as if a music-blog, or music-blogging is meant to – only – be about what’s new and not quite out (in most cases that’s just writing about what’s not quite […]

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December 11, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1721

V/A, We Can Work It Out: Covers & Cookies of Lennon, McCartney & The Beatles (2005) This double LP of Beatles covers features funk and soul and R’n’B and there are reggae-tinged and jazz trace-around covers too. One of my favourites was always Ike and Tina Turner doing Come Together. And of course that great […]