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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 […]Archive
April 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Taking The Power Back: Ten of the Most Important Hip-Hop Albums in my Life
We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top ten albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top Ten” I will call them ten of the most important – sorry if that sounds pretentious. It’s not meant […]Archive
September 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Prince: HITnRUN phase one
Prince HITnRUN phase one NPG/Tidal A new Prince album – again! – means headlines, particularly as this one follows swiftly after the last pair and in a gimmick-move it’s available exclusively on the Tidal streaming platform (at least for a couple more days and then it’ll be a CD since people concerned with owning every […]Archive
September 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Charles Fairchild: Danger Mouse’s Grey Album (33 1/3)
Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album (33 1/3) Charles Fairchild Bloomsbury Academic Charles Fairchild is a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Sydney in Australia and here, with his entry into the 33 1/3 series he looks at The Grey Album by Danger Mouse, an exercise in collage and contrast, in the melding […]Archive
July 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Jay-Z: Magna Carta Holy Grail
Jay-Z Magna Carta Holy Grail Universal Music It’s good. You know, I think a lot of people decided it couldn’t be because this billionaire didn’t deserve even more success; didn’t deserve to make money by cynically distributing the album with a new (clever) deal that could only work for one or two names in music. […]Archive
June 9, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Great Gatsby: Film
The Great Gatsby Director: Baz Luhrmann Village Roadshow Pictures Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby is likely the stupidest film I’ll ever see. And how fitting for it to be in 3D – the same issues with that gimmick apply to Luhrmann’s creative angle: you’re put right in the film and for that to […]Archive
December 20, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1709
Jay-Z, The Blueprint (2001) I always liked this album. I like a couple of other Jay-Z albums too but this is the one I play the most. Listening to it now – I bought the double-LP very recently – it plays like a greatest hits. Izzo (H.O.V.A.), Girls, Girls, Girls, Jigga That Nigga, so many […]Archive
December 17, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1713
Kanye West, The College Dropout (2004) I didn’t like that silly vocoder album at all and made my feelings pretty clear regarding its absurd shark-jumping follow-up but the first three Kanye West albums were all pretty easy to like. And they flow on well from one to the next – he’s slowly but surely turning […]Archive
July 24, 2011 by Simon Sweetman