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October 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 94: Orange Juice – “Rip It Up”

I hadn’t ever heard an Orange Juice album – but I know the songs; I was hipped to them only later though, the compilation Edwyn Collins & Orange Juice: A Casual Introduction 1981/2001 was the thing that set it all off for me. By then I’d heard some Edwyn Collins songs I liked a lot […]
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September 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 90: The Psychedelic Furs – “Talk Talk Talk”

Terrific band The Psychedelic Furs and I thought I knew them pretty well, love the debut and particularly love their third album, Forever Now; that’s a go-to for me – Love My Way is the song, one of my all-time favourites by anyone ever, and a DJ-staple. And I had a compilation that covered a […]
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September 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 86: Heaven 17 – “Penthouse and Pavement”

Another example of why this challenge has been good for me. I know of Heaven 17 of course – I even know Temptation very well and a few others. But I have never listened to a Heaven 17 album, at least not knowingly; at least not until I finally sat down with Penthouse and Pavement […]
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September 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 85: Siouxsie and the Banshees – “Juju”

There I was just ten albums back in this challenge saying that I really needed to listen to more Siouxsie and The Banshees because I’d been gifted a compilation album and was digging it – and had some memories of posters and singles and video clips and bit and bobs from back in the day […]
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August 23, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 83: The Undertones – “Hypnotised”

Everyone that likes music knows at least one thing about The Undertones – you know that John Peel loved Teenage Kicks so much he played it twice in a row; when the veteran DJ died the station paid tribute by playing that song through twice. You might also know Feargal Sharkey – who went on […]
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August 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 79: Japan – “Quiet Life”

I always love finding a New Favourite Album of The Year that comes from way back – this year my favourite album of 2018 not released in 2018 is – easily – Japan’s Quiet Life (released in late 1979). I have never listened to Japan. I’ve heard about the band, read about the band, thought […]
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June 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 71: Buzzcocks – “Another Music In A Different Kitchen”

Gosh, it felt like just the other day that I was talking about how I loved Magazine (and Buzzcocks too) but didn’t really know the albums – certainly not the “classic” albums…well, it was just the other day…and now here we are with the Buzzcocks’ debut. An album I really don’t know well at all. […]
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June 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 69: Magazine – “Real Life”

I’d love to say I’m a huge Magazine fan – but I’m not, simply because I’ve not really bothered. Funnily enough, the Magazine album I know best, is the 2011 release (from a reunion phase) called No Thyself. I reckon that’s brilliant. A really great album. So – I’d never heard Real Life but I […]
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June 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 65: The Stranglers – “Rattus Norvegicus”

The late 1970s/early 1980s, the punk and post-punk, that’s the era/s and genre/s were I’m going to come up short in this challenge – and it’s the stuff I love; but I guess, age-wise, it’s a case of loving it now more so than then. So this is where you get situations like this: I’d […]
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March 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Engine Summer: Trophy Kids

Engine Summer Trophy Kids Records DK Engine Summer is a three-piece out of Chicago and Trophy Kids is a ripper of a record. I almost want that to be the review. The songs are short, and only tell you what you need to know, so that would be fair enough as a review then right?
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January 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 196 Ska

I think it was the killer basslines that hooked me in and the attitude as much as anything. When I first moved to Wellington in 1980 I guess I was still writing folk songs. Louise and I had found work at the Art Centre and I felt under pressure to write. That first Specials album […]
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November 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 213 – The Stranglers, Wellington, 2016

No doubt some people wanted to whinge and moan and say “It’s not really The Stranglers” – half a band at best – but usually those people are the ones who don’t go to the show. No one could have gone to this and been upset. It was all the hits – and yet it […]
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