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January 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 26: The Electric Prunes – “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”
It seems odd – to me anyway – that I had never previously hear this. I mean the song, sure. I know that. A staple from Nuggets, I often play it at DJ sets – and the Nuggets compilation has been a big deal in my life for a while. And yet I just simply […]Archive
November 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Kick Out The Jams: The MC5 Song and Album in Context
Musically The MC5 – with their name conjuring the mental image of Detroit’s assembly line routine for car manufacturing – were the antidote to that other famous Detroit sound of the 60s: Motown. And the Motor City Five bought sleazy, sludgy riffs and a raw rock heart to their live performances. To put the song […]Archive
May 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 702
V/A, Lookey Dookey/Talking Trash (2000) One of several 50s/60s garage-rock/r’n’b comps I’ve gathered in recent years. I probably started hooking up with these things when I started doing 6-8 hour DJ sets at a couple of bars; in most cases they were compilations I recognised from when I worked in the CD store and knew the […]Archive
September 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Nobunny & The Hussy (September 13, Wgtn)
Nobunny & The Hussy San Fran Saturday, September 13 Nobunny (born Justin Champlin) skipped out onto the floor – playing in front of the stage, a circle of fans hovering in to sweat it up as he charged through hurtling garage rock and trash/no-wave with The Hussy. He skipped out in trademark underpants (circa Dirty […]Archive
March 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman