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July 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 85
Carpenters, Voice of the Heart (1983) I am a Carpenters fan – but that wasn’t always the case, I had to ‘come out’ as such. The tribute album gave me the license – but the songs had always been in my heart. For many years I had a Greatest Hits album on vinyl but in […]Archive
July 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2
Various Artists: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2 NOW As with the first volume this is more a compilation of acceptable cheese than it is ‘Yacht Rock’. Yacht Rock’s dead anyway, it sunk – but not without traces. The wind changed. Maybe as soon as people started making compilations with the words […]Archive
December 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock
Various Artists: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock CUSTOM MARKETING GROUP I think the perfect thing to sum up “YACHT ROCK” is that a good four years after people stopped giving a fuck about the name (and for the fairweather sailors much of the music too) there’s a compilation on the market called NOW […]Archive
April 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
I Am A Carpenters Fan: To Be Born Again
The Carpenters were brother and sister duo, Richard and Karen. She would turn down any kind of drumstick other than the kind used to play music. He was a piano teacher interested in jazz and classical music; interested in arranging and composition. It took me a while to understand the appeal of The Carpenters – […]Archive
March 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1175
Dexys, One Day I’m Going To Soar (2012) I’ve always been a fan of Dexys Midnight Runners – in and out of fashion, and, probably, in the time that I’ve been a fan they were never really in fashion. But I was curious to check out the new album by the band now known as […]Archive
December 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman