Posts Tagged Saturday Night Fever
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December 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 8
Bee Gees, Night Fever [Single] (1978) Maybe this has always been one of my favourite Bee Gees songs? Quite likely. And among the first I would have heard and though I’ve gone back to their pre-disco pop and I like almost everything up to Saturday Night Fever – I still do have love for that […]Archive
February 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 338
Lionel Hampton, Saturday Night Jazz Fever (1978) I took a punt on Lionel Hampton back in the day; bought a double CD comp from a closing down sale for $5-10 and loved it. I didn’t know what I was getting – beyond the fact that it was jazz. Clearly jazz. Then I looked him pup, found out about […]Archive
February 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 14 Nik Cohn
It’s hard naming favourite music writers, like being forced to pick a favourite band I guess. You don’t always want to listen to The Beatles or much as Kendrick Lamar might take your fancy you can’t just listen to only that. It’s the same with great writers – you get different things from different people. […]Archive
August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gate: Saturday Night Fever
Gate Saturday Night Fever MIE Announced as Gate’s disco album – obviously riffing on the title – but that only means something if you’ve already entered through the Gate into Michael Morley’s world of hypnotic swirls of noise, guitar loops that duck, dive and drone and rhythms that become melodies only after they’ve pulverised your […]Archive
November 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Walter Murphy: A Fifth of Beethoven [Reissue]
Walter Murphy A Fifth of Beethoven [Reissue] Hot Shot Records If you asked someone – now – what they knew about Walter Murphy, or if they knew him, they might tell you about his work with Seth MacFarlane – from writing/arranging for Family Guy he’s become MacFarlane’s go-to composer creating the theme tunes for his […]Archive
November 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 996
The Trammps, Disco Inferno (1976) It started with the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever – that was all I knew of The Trammps – and for the longest while all I needed to know, that super-charged version of Disco Inferno. I’m so obsessed with that song, that groove, that I once (not that long ago […]Archive
February 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman