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September 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 253
Rare Earth, Willie Remembers… (1972) Rare Earth was the first all-white band to have a hit on the Motown label. They had some hits, even, by covering things by The Temptations – you know basically white-washing the whitest of the black labels. The woke crowd would have a field-day with this shit today. And (probably) […]Archive
September 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 254
Jack Pleis, His Piano, Orchestra and Chorus, Broadway Goes Hollywood (1955) Muzak, schmaltz, cornball, oddities, soft-jazz, safe orchestral pop, call it what you want – I want it. Especially on vinyl. And I’ll never turn down a good 10” (ooh, er) – nor will I turn down a bad 10” innuendo (in-your-end-o!). So this is […]Archive
September 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 255
Roger Miller, This Is…Roger Miller (?) How many Roger Miller records do you need? The answer is: 1 more than you think…I bought this a couple of weeks ago in a sallies-store, thrift-shop vinyl for the standard $1, and I’m very happy I picked it up. I’m not-not-a-fan-of Roger Miller…would be the best way to […]Archive
September 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 256
Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak (1984) How do you explain how great Laurie Anderson is – or even who and what she is as an artist. Polymath. Well, that’s a start. As for me – and a start with Laurie Anderson. I don’t even know. She’s just someone that’s always been there. Artist. Multifaceted and multi-layered. […]Archive
August 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 258
V/A, Radio Days: Selections From The Original Soundtrack of The Motion Picture (1987) When I worked in a video store – “video” very much too, DVDs were only just coming in then, we had about 10 on the new release shelf, how archaic – it was the late 1990s. And I set about like a […]Archive
August 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 259
J.J. Cale, Troubadour (1976) I was thinking just the other day about how this is one of my favourite J.J. Cale albums – and about how there are a small handful I still don’t really know. But this was not the first Cale album I heard. I had a compilation and one of the more recent […]Archive
August 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 260
Randy Newman, Good Old Boys (1974) I’ve said it before – and I think it with every album by Randy Newman, whenever I’m playing them or even thinking about playing them…it’s hard to pick a favourite. But this is consistently in the top three. This is probably my favourite (well, this and Sail Away, uh-oh, here we go…) I fell in love with this […]Archive
August 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 261
Prince, Originals (2019) So far, I have to say, they’ve hit it out of the park with the official posthumous Prince releases. I previewed this one a while back (unofficially) My prediction was the Kenny Rogers song would be ‘discovered’ as a lost-classic, a gem, and I’ve no way of knowing if that’s the case, it was just a feeling I […]Archive
August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 262
Serge Gainsbourg, La chanson de prevet (2019) It’s not that I was in the market for a Serge Gainsbourg tote bag, but I’m always in the market for some of Serge Gainsbourg’s music and this compilation (of material from 1958-1961) just happened to come with a free tote bag. Which is just fine. I haven’t used it much […]Archive
August 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 264
Neketini Brass (1967) I’ve had to work hard to control myself from stopping the car when I see second-hand stores in small towns. I’d never get anywhere in life – literally, and otherwise – if I indulged that whim. So I drive on, nine and a half times out of ten. But when I do stop and have […]Archive
August 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman