Posts Tagged Guilty Pleasure

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July 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 34 – Yanni, “Live At The Acropolis”

Yanni, Live At The Acropolis, 1994 I’m not sure this is a crap album. I’m not sure it ever was. But I do know it was a guilty pleasure of sorts. And I do know a lot of people thought Yanni was crap. Probably without ever listening to him. And this was him at his […]

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January 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 190

Mike Oldfield, Exposed (1979) I used to be so into Mike Oldfield – and now it’s a chore. At best. Be careful though, when you say something like that – especially when it comes to guilty-pleasures…I dug out this double-live album and played it right through, as if to prove to myself that I was […]

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October 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 489

Shelly Manne, Plays Richard Rodgers: REX (1977) If I have a weakness – in a guilty-pleasure/Achilles heel sense – it is solo albums by drummers. I don’t just mean when the drummer is a bandleader (as Shelly Manne was) or when they’re a singer/songwriter too or multi-instrumentalist. Though bring all that on also. But if […]