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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 – […]Archive
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 […]Archive
March 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 144
Commodores, Greatest Hits (1978) Very recently I bought a cheap copy of the self-titled Commodores album; the band’s fifth record. It’s good – I love the Commodores and it’s got some of their biggest hits on it. Well, actually, the copy I received has HEAPS of their hits…buried inside it was a second LP – […]Archive
March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman