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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
November 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman