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October 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Cave Circles: Apricity (ep)

Cave Circles Apricity (ep) Wonderful Noise Japan Here’s Riki Gooch working (again) under his Cave Circle alias – it’s been a busy time for releases just recently with Cave Circles’ 12”, My Heart Is A Beating Drum and then the recent cassette tape release under another of his working aliases, DJ OBOE.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Apricity, Apricity (ep), Beatmaker, Black Rainbow, Cave Circles, Cave Circles: Apricity, Dilla, DJ OBOE, EP, Garden, Housekeeping, Instrumental, Instrumentalist, Instrumentals, John Carpenter, Kiva, Leila Adu, Mirrors, My Heart Is A Beating Drum, Parks, Producer, Riki Gooch, Rocks, Seven Davis Jr, Vocal, Waves, Wonderful Noise Japan ·

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February 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Aerosmith: Awful!

Here’s something you won’t read all that often – but it’s (still) the truth: Aerosmith is really a pretty awful band. Oh, I had Rocks on cassette tape when I was a kid and just learning up on all this stuff. And Pump (the real comeback record for them; they crossed over to the younger […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Aerosmith, Aerosmith: Awful!, Appetite For Destruction, Awful, Ghastly, Kiss, Pump, Rocks, Rush, Steven Tyler, Sweet Emotion, Terrible, The Real Thing, Toys In The Attic, Walk This Way ·

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October 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1022

Radiohead, Rocks Germany 2001 (2009) If you looked at all the Radiohead albums I have you’d think I was a huge fan of the band. And I guess I am – I like them, I’m interested in them. I had several years away from them – lost touch, lost interest. And then got pulled back […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2009, 2LP, Bootleg, Live, LP, Morning Bell, Radiohead, Rocks, Rocks Germany 2001, Vinyl ·

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May 23, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1990

                              Aerosmith, Toys In The Attic (1975) Okay, the impetus behind listening to this again –  the first time I’ve listened right through to the album on vinyl actually – is because I’m nearing the end of Steven Tyler’s memoir (out June 11, New Zealand readers). It’s a pretty terrible book, poorly written and Tyler is […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Aerosmith, Appetite For Destruction, Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?, Dream On, Dude Looks Like A Lady, Joey Kramer, Pump, Rocks, Run DMC, Steven Tyler, Sweet Emotion, Toys In The Attic, Vinyl, Walk This Way ·

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