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April 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Playlist: Phil Spector’s Greatest Hits

Okay, okay, Phil Spector is obviously a despicable – and probably fully cancelled – individual. But the music he made, stood over, demanded from people…that’s not going anywhere. Some of it is some of the best music ever. Almost all of it is worth savouring. I recently found a very cool single-LP greatest hits album – […]
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March 7, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Playlist: Tears For Fears Sampler

The brand new album by Tears For Fears is their first record together in 17 years. It’s there for you to check out in that link. I’ve given it a couple of listens, some of it is really great. Some of it is just okay. Some of it is a bit WTF? But I’ll charge […]
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December 12, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 51 – Toto, “Past To Present 1977-1990″

Toto, Past To Present 1977-1990, 1990 My brother has this thing for Greatest Hits comps; he’s got this CD collection (still) and he likes to just cap an artist with a compilation. He has a few other albums – sometimes. If he’s a big time fan of the band (Rolling Stones) he’ll have a few […]
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October 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Simply The Best. And Then Some Of The Rest As Well

I still own Bruce Springsteen’s single-disc Greatest Hits and the triple-disc set, The Essential Bruce Springsteen. What about when he released that four-disc box-set Tracks. Then the bastards put out a single-disc version called, somewhat unimaginatively, 18 Tracks. And that featured three songs that were not on the box-set. Man, that’s cruel. I actually tempered my approach to being a completist music […]
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September 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Genesis: The Last Domino?

Genesis The Last Domino? Atlantic Catalog Group Something made me very nostalgic about this – a Genesis compilation that no one actually needs, and maybe hardly anyone wants. This material is available already and has been compiled several times over. But this exists to plug the farewell tour, for it is – basically – the […]
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March 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Aretha Franklin: The Genesis of Aretha: 1960-1966

Aretha Franklin The Genesis of Aretha: 1960-1966 Columbia There are so many Aretha compilations on the market – but this one, one of the first since her passing, is a goodie. Its well established that between 1967 and 1972 Aretha Franklin was crowned the Queen of Soul and in that five year period there are […]
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January 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sleaford Mods: All That Glue

Sleaford Mods All That Glue Rough Trade Granted, I was a little slow to the party with Sleaford Mods. I heard a few tracks and thought they were clever, biting, funny – but I couldn’t commit to the albums. That changed with 2019’s Eton Alive which I instantly thought was brilliant. Something clicked. It arrived […]
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October 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Beastie Boys: Beastie Boys Music

Beastie Boys Beastie Boys Music Capitol There are at least two other (very good) Beastie Boys compilations on the market and still (and always) available and the best one is absolutely The Sounds of Science an anthology that features as many unreleased songs as it does ‘hits’. And that’s the one that soundtracked several of […]
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October 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 43

Donna Summer, On The Radio: Greatest Hits – Volume I & II (1979) Donna Summer was one of the queens of 1970s radio – her disco-fied pop, R’n’B and funk was everywhere for me growing up in the early 1980s, on radio and via the records my folks had. And I have no idea how […]
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August 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 66

Mama Cass, Mama’s Big Ones: Her Greatest Hits  (1970) Those rose-tinted fuckers that tell you there was only great music back in the day and nothing great has ever come out today, I wonder if they ever peel off those shades and think about the embarrassing puns, the sexism, the crude, lewd, lazy attempts at […]
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April 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 129

Little River Band, Greatest Hits (1982) There’s absolutely a nostalgia-component to record collecting for me – I still walk into stores and on the wrong day (or maybe it’s the right day) I see a cover from my childhood listening and I have to get it, have to reconnect. That often – and mostly – […]
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April 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 136

Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend (1984) It’s the greatest-selling reggae album of all time and the first significant posthumous hits collection featuring the killer singles by Bob Marley & The Wailers and, for my money, it’s one of the all-time greatest single-disc best ofs for and by any artist. It’s both the token reggae […]
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