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June 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Got Live Cos I Want It: 10 Important Live-in-Concert Albums In My Life of Listening

I know I’ve written about live albums before – several times, and I always will, I love live albums! – but I thought I’d give you a list of the ten live albums that I consider the most important. That is to say important to me, these lists are a chance for me to remind […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 10 Important Live-in-Concert Albums In My Life of Listening, Absolutely Live, B.B. King, Big Swing Face, Bill Withers, Buddy Rich, Concert, Cook County Jail, Erykah Badu, Frampton Comes Alive, Got Live Cos I Want It, Got Live Cos I Want It: 10 Important Live-in-Concert Albums In My Life of Listening, Jay-Z, Live, Live Album, Live At Carnegie Hall, Live At Leeds, Live At The Regal, Live At The Village Vanguard, Live In Concert, Live In Cook County Jail, Live Magic, Peter Frampton, Queen, The Buddy Rich Big Band, The Doors, The Roots, The Who, Wynton Marsalis ·

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April 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Donny Hathaway Live: One Of My All-Time Favourite Records…A Masterpiece…

One of my favourite albums of all time, a true masterpiece, an album that moves me every time I listen to it – and simply one of my most-loved, most played records – is Live by Donny Hathaway. I got hooked on the album many years back – a favourite across formats (LP, tape, CD, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bill Withers, Blues, Crowd, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway Live: One Of My All-Time Favourite Records…A Masterpiece…, Erykah Badu, Funk, George Benson, Jazz, Live, Live Album, Masterpiece, One Of My All-Time Favourite Records, R'n'B, Soul, Stevie Wonder, These Songs, These Songs For You Live! ·

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December 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Erykah Badu: But U Caint Use My Phone [Mixtape]

Erykah Badu But U Caint Use My Phone [Mixtape] Apple Music/Control Freaq. It’s been five years between albums – and the new one by Erykah Badu is a mixtape, some covers and rewrites, the phone theme is explored across all 11 tracks and the slight 37-minute running time, the title lifted of course from her […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Andre 3000, Andre3000, Apple Music, Badu, Blues Brothers 2000, Cell Phone, Drake, Erykah, Erykah Badu, Hello It's Me, Hotline Bling, Isley Brothers, Mixtape, Outkast, Parade, Phone, Prince, Streaming, Telephone, The New Amerykah, The New Amerykah Part One, The New Amerykah Part Three?, The New Amerykah Part Two, Todd Rundgren, Tyrone, Worldwide Underground ·

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September 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Janelle Monae: The Electric Lady

Janelle Monae The Electric Lady Bad Boy/Warners The Electric Lady is Janelle Monae’s second official album release – and her third release given her debut was a seven-track EP/mini-album, it’s also known as the fourth and fifth suites of her seven-part future-symphony that will link the four releases (when the closing chapters are released on […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Concept Album, Electric Lady, Erykah Badu, Esperanza Spalding, Jackson 5, James Brown, Janelle Monae, Michael Jackson, Miguel, Prince, Sci-Fi, Sign O' The Times, Solange, Stevie Wonder, Suites IV and V, The Electric Lady, The Love Below, The Velvet Rope ·

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May 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1376

The Roots, Things Fall Apart (1999) This is the fourth album by The Roots – but it’s the first one I heard; it’s what got me hooked. So it’s the sentimental favourite in so many ways, even though each new record from this band captivates me. Always interesting, always just different enough The Roots is […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Act Too, Common, Erykah Badu, Questlove, The Roots, Things Fall Apart, You Got Me ·

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April 12, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Bonobo: The North Borders

Bonobo The North Borders Ninja Tune/Border People really started to take notice with Black Sands and its palinode remix album but, as Bonobo, Simon Green has been creating lush, atmospheric post-chillout electronica in such a way as to almost make you forget those silly overused near-enough-now to meaningless words like ‘lush’ and ‘atmospheric’ (and for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Black Sands, Bonobo, Erykah Badu, Simon Green, The North Borders ·

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April 16, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1528

Rocket Juice & The Moon, Rocket Juice & The Moon (2012) You come to this project for Damon Albarn – well, I did. You stay because of Tony Allen – well I am. Sample Track: Hey Shooter (ft. Erykah Badu) The Vinyl Countdown is a document of every LP I listen to, brand new discoveries […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2012, Damon Albarn, Erykah Badu, Flea, Hey Shooter, LP, Rocket Juice & The Moon, Tony Allen, Vinyl ·

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December 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1725

Wings, Arrow Through Me [45] (1979) I bought this for $30 – yep, $30 for one song (well, two – it’s b/w Old Siam, Sir; good tune). But I already have Back To The Egg (parent album for both tunes) on vinyl. And CD. I probably am some kind of Wings nutter. Well, I always […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [45], 7, Arrow Through Me, Back To The Egg, Don't Be Long, Erykah Badu, Gone Baby, Old Siam, Paul McCartney, Single, Sir, The Beatles, Vinyl, Wings ·

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