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May 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 53 – Iggy Pop, “Brick By Brick”

Iggy Pop, Brick By Brick, 1990 When I was 15 I loved this. And I loved it because of the music on it, sure. But I loved it, first of all, because I had found the poster in a music store, given it from the counter-staff to hang on my wall. I thought it was […]
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August 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 50 – Santana, “Spirits Dancing In The Flesh”

Santana, Spirits Dancing In The Flesh, 1990 It’s quite possible that in 1990 there wasn’t a bigger Santana fan on the planet than me! I wrote the band’s name on my pencil case, and on my army surplus canvas bag. You were supposed to write things like MC Hammer and New Kids On The Block […]
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July 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 49 – “Poetic Justice”: Music From The Motion Picture

V/A, Poetic Justice [OST] 1993 I’ll let you in on what used to be a secret. A one-time guilty pleasure of mine was the film Poetic Justice. A film about poetry. As a teenager I was there for this. Waiting for it. I loved this movie – it’s not great, but it is charming. And […]
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June 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 48 – Boris Gardiner, “Everything To Me”

Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me, 1986 Nostalgia works in funny ways – it pulls you in at the weirdest times. I knew Boris Gardiner by fluke. One day in the library I saw a CD called Every Nigger Is A Star. It is the soundtrack to a film I haven’t seen. I took the CD […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1986, Boris Gardiner, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Every Nigger Is A Star, Everything To Me, I Want To Wake Up With You, LP, Pop, Record, Reggae, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 48, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 48 – Boris Gardiner, The Vinyl Countdown, Vinyl, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 46 – Lou Reed “Metal Machine Music”

Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music, 1975 It’s probably cool now – in fact I know that it’s regarded as pioneering, it’s also been performed (in tribute) by large ensembles. There’s an official orchestra version. But that was never Lou Reed’s plan. And the album Metal Machine Music still exists as shorthand for Belligerent Artist Does […]
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April 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 45 – Yes, “Big Generator”

Yes, Big Generator, 1987 This one’s pretty funny. I bought this because I quite liked that 80s hit, Owner Of A Lonely Heart. Then, much later, I found out that was the band Yes. I’m not sure if I ever really liked the band Yes, but I did know their early prog records – the, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Big Generator”, 1987, 80s, Alan White, Blog, Chris Squire, Crap, Owner of a Lonely Heart, Rick Wakeman, Shit, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 45, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 45 – Yes, Trevor Horn, Trevor Rabin, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Yes ·

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March 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 44 – Sophie B. Hawkins, “Tongues and Tails”

Sophie B. Hawkins, Tongues and Tails, 1992 Sometimes one song used to be enough. It used to be enough to make you want to buy in to the parent-album and it used to be enough to nearly carry that record; to keep you invested so you did the time until you came away with something […]
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February 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 43 – Candy Dulfer, “Saxuality”

Candy Dulfer, Saxuality, 1990 Around 1990 Candy Dulfer was having a moment. She had been doing session work with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and it had resulted in a charming wee instrumental called Lily Was Here – for a film of the same name. The song, barely a song – just a floaty little […]
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January 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 41 – Gary Moore, “Still Got The Blues”

Gary Moore, Still Got The Blues, 1990 There was a time when I loved Gary Moore – and it was mostly because of this album. I mean I was excited about his pedigree (Thin Lizzy) and his hard-rock background. I was a kid. And rock guitar was my jam. And 1990 was the year that […]
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November 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 40 – Frank Zappa, “Jazz From Hell”

Frank Zappa, Jazz From Hell, 1986 Almost a trick question really – looking for the crap Frank Zappa albums that are good. His music lives in the vacuum of its cult endorsements. Ask the wives and girlfriends. Ask the bemused best friends of certain music nerds. Ask yourself. Is there an enjoyably Frank Zappa album? […]
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November 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 39 – Stevie Wonder, “Characters”

Stevie Wonder, Characters, 1987 Stevie Wonder is, as we all know I’d hope, A MUSICAL GENIUS! But this is where he absolutely runs out of juice I think. As rum as his 1980s was overall this is the nadir. This is the album where he sounds bored and desperate to be relevant – the curse […]
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October 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 38 – Keith Jarrett, “Restoration Ruin”

Keith Jarrett, Restoration Ruin, 1968 Somewhere in my quest to collect a whole heap of things by Keith Jarrett (not everything – because how could you?) I found out about this album. The Oddity In His Catalogue. Recorded and released in 1968 it is his second album. It is unlike anything else he’s made. Jarrett […]
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