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February 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: For The Love Of You

Various Artists: For The Love Of You Athens of the North The Athens of the North reissue label always takes you down a new wormhole, finds the sweet spot, opens the door, mixes the metaphor and spins your head with its lush simplicity; its super cool, super sweet ideas. So try this one! A compilation […]
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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 17

Dave Barker Meets The Upsetters, Prisoner of Love (1970) Bit of an impulse buy, this one. And very happy to have made it. Dave Barker is something of a journeyman reggae/rocksteady/soul singer – but back when this record was made he wasn’t really anyone. This record made him. And I bought it because it was […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1970, Build My Whole World Around You, Dave Barker, Dave Barker Meets The Upsetters, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Lee Perry, LP, Prisoner of Love, Record, Red Vinyl, Reggae, Rocksteady, Scratch, The Upsetters, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 17, Vinyl ·

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November 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 18

Toots & The Maytals, Knock Out! (1981) The song Beautiful Womanwas everywhere when I was a kid. I remember it well. I didn’t particularly like it. Nor did I know who it was by. It was just everywhere. It was years – and possibly even a few more years after that – before I found […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1981, 80s, Beauiful Woman, Careless Ethiopians, Knock Out!, LP, Record, Reggae, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 18, Toots, Toots & The Maytals, Toots Hibbert, Vinyl ·

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July 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 90

Easy Star All-Stars, Radiodread (2006) I first became aware of the Easy Star All-Stars with their first album – Dub Side of The Moon. It is a brilliant set of covers (reimaginings) of that classic album. Performed in order. These days I get way more of a kick out of listening to that than I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2006, Airbag, Covers, Dub, Dub Side Of The Moon, Easy Star All-Stars, Horacy Andy, LP, Radiodread, Radiohead, Record, Reggae, The Easy Star All-Stars, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 90, Vinyl ·

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July 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 100

Bob Marley and The Wailers, Live: Boston Music Hall (June 8th 1978) (2017) Look, I’m not really one for these bootleg recordings – but I am one for bargains. So when I found a brand new copy of this, for dirt cheap, with time to kill and browsing, there was no choice but for it […]
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June 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 113

Arthur “Duke” Reid, Treasure Dub (Vol. 1 Dub Series) (2018) Arthur “Duke” Reid was one of dub-reggae’s pioneers – running sound systems, record labels, DJing, talent spotting, promoting…and, having helped to create rocksteady, ska and early reggae music through the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the pioneers of dub music in the early/mid […]
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May 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 116

Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me (1986) I first learned about Boris Gardiner due to a random library-find, back in those busy toddler-caring days of finding some salvation by digging in the library’s music section. The album, Every Nigger Is A Star, a soundtrack album to a banned movie was the one. A fantastic album. Gardiner […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1986, Eighties, Every Nigger Is A Star, Everything To Me, I Want To Wake Up With You, LP, Next To You, Record, Reggae, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 116, Vinyl ·

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May 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 117

Ken Boothe, Everything I Own (1974) Ken Boothe is a sort of journeyman Jamaican vocalist – made over in the early 1970s to sing some Johnny Nash-styled pop-reggae vibes. I like the best of his work a great deal, fantastic cover versions and he wrote a few tunes too. He has great musicians in support […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1974, Bread, Everything I Own, Ken Boothe, LP, Record, Reggae, Sad and Lonely, Speak Softly Love, The Godfather, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 117, Vinyl ·

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May 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 119

V/A, Bunny Lee: Dreads Enter The Gates With Praise (2019) “Striker” – Bunny Lee – one of the architects! Here he is making the selections for one of the Soul Jazz Records label’s fantastic compilations; this a representation of some of the heavy-hitters of the 1970s and is a must-have for reggae-heads. It was recommended […]
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May 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Playlist: Sunny Daze That I Thought Would Never End

Hey, how was that lockdown for you? We’re at level two now and so the walks can extend a bit further and you can add to your bubble, or pop it, or whatever…there are still some rules of course but all going well they’ll ease in the coming days and weeks and hopefully talk of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autumn, Funk, Groove, Hip-Hop, Level 2, Music, Playlist, Playlist: Sunny Daze That I Thought Would Never End, Reggae, Soul, Spotify, Sun, Sunny Daze, Sunny Daze That I Thought Would Never End, Walk, Winter Sun ·

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May 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 120

Augustus Pablo, El Rocker’s (2000) I remember being introduced to the music of Augustus Pablo – early 2000s. Like many things with music (and you don’t often know it when it’s happening) it came at exactly the right time. I was a fan of some reggae and dub music but didn’t know a lot and […]
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May 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 122

Roots Radics, Dubbing At Channel 1 (2017) Lockdown has reconnected me with reggae, with dub, with lovers rock, ska, rocksteady – and holy shit maybe even dancehall. Jamaican music and the versions of it that appear throughout the world (especially the UK scene/s) has been a crucial part of the soundtrack to lockdown in my […]
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