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October 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 27

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Enola Gay [Single] (1980) I remember seeing a TV ad for Shake Magazine and wanting to get the latest issue. My mum bought it for me – I was sick, in bed for the day, home from school, and one of the bands featured in the magazine was OMD – […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Annex, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, Enola Gay, EP, LP, OMD, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Record, SHAKE Magazine, Single, The Vinyl Countdown, Vinyl ·

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March 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 158

ELO, Time (1981) Everyone that’s ever read any of my posts knows I’m a huge Electric Light Orchestra fan – goes back to my childhood, but I’m newly enthused and on a (recent) quest to collect up all the albums. So, on a recent trip to New Plymouth I had to visit the record store […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1981, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, Hold On Tight, Jeff Lynne, LP, Record, The Lights Go Down, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 158, Time, Vinyl ·

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February 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 166

Electric Light Orchestra, Olé ELO (1976) I possibly didn’t need this – since I am collecting up all of the ELO albums as I find them and already have that classic best-of – but I saw this in the store and that little lightbulb went off; I had never seen this on the shelf in […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1976, Collection, Compilation, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, Kuiama, LP, Olé, Olé ELO, Promo, Record, Roll Over Beethoven, Showdown, Strange Magic, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 166, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Jeff Lynne’s ELO: From Out of Nowhere

Jeff Lynne’s ELO From Out Of Nowhere Columbia Strange magic indeed! After years of silence and – I guess – living off royalties and a pet-project here and there ELO is unfashionably fashionable or fashionably unfashionable again. Lynne released a solo album of covers and a solo album of him covering his own ELO hits […]
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January 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 191

Randy Newman, Born Again (1979) It’s a little over a month to go before Randy Newman’s first ever NZ shows – so all my Randy Newman albums (soundtracks, collabs, even records by other that feature Newman compositions – a heap!) are there by the stereo. I’ve worked through them all recently because I did a […]
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August 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Drugdealer: Raw Honey 

Drugdealer Raw Honey Mexican Summer/Southbound This, the second album by Drugdealer – a name given to a project helmed by late-blooming wunderkind Michael Collins – is another clever selection of Record Collection Pop; songs you could fool yourself into thinking you’re sure you’ve heard before. A trace of Beach Boys here, some summer 70s feel-good daze there. But actually it’s […]
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December 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 346

George Harrison, Cloud Nine (1987) It’s been a big year for me and The Beatles – I’ve fallen in love with the band again and the solo careers of all its members, the big revelation has probably been just how much I really do love a lot of the John Lennon material (far more than […]
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October 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 368

Electric Light Orchestra, Out of the Blue (1977) Jeff Lynne has never been cool/Jeff Lynne has always been cool. Jeff Lynne might live until he’s about 189 I think. He lives for making music. And he is wonderful at it. Here, with his band/under the band name Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) he made a double […]
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June 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 396

Electric Light Orchestra, A New World Record (1976) When my dad got the greatest hits album many moons ago we all sat around the campfire eagerly…he’d swear by this band, ELO, “bloody hell”, he’s say, “they’re fuckin good!” etc…And man, the songs…turns out I knew so many of them, even as a wee one. They’d been […]
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May 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 407

Electric Light Orchestra, On The Third Day (1973) I’m on a big ELO kick – I guess I always am, but right now it’s all about all things Jeff Lynne – so that’s Electric Light Orchestra and all other things, the production-work, the solo albums, the super-sessions and groups…but I only know a few of […]
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March 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 420

Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre (1990) I was pleased to find this. Jeff Lynne’s first solo album – arriving right at the end of the very hot streak that saw the Wilburys and all of the albums that Jeff worked on in and around that – Tom Petty, George Harrison, etc. I reckon Armchair Theatre is […]
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January 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Wembley or Bust

Jeff Lynne’s ELO Wembley or Bust Columbia Jeff Lynne has been taking stock in recent years – then again, maybe that’s all he’s ever been doing. But there was the reworking of classic ELO songs as a one-man-band. And a solo album of crooner-covers. Then, finally a new studio album of originals under the new […]
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