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September 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 36 – Jim Morrison, “An American Prayer”
Jim Morrison, An American Prayer, 1978 I’ll always maintain that in terms of poetry, Jim Morrison had a spectacular voice. Maybe not anything special as actual poetic voice – but his spoken-world delivery was superb. He was just mad enough and insecure enough to want to try to believe everything he said. But quite apart […]Archive
August 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 35 – Charles Bukowski, “Hostage”
Charles Bukowski, Hostage, 1985 the bulls are grand as the side of the sun and although they kill them for the stale crowds, it is the bull that burns the fire, and although there are cowardly bulls as there are cowardly matadors and cowardly men, generally the bull stands pure and dies pure untouched by […]Archive
July 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 34 – Yanni, “Live At The Acropolis”
Yanni, Live At The Acropolis, 1994 I’m not sure this is a crap album. I’m not sure it ever was. But I do know it was a guilty pleasure of sorts. And I do know a lot of people thought Yanni was crap. Probably without ever listening to him. And this was him at his […]Archive
July 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 33 – Bill Withers, “Watching You, Watching Me”
Bill Withers, Watching You Watching Me, 1985 When I first met the music of Bill Withers I was amazed not only by it, but by the control. That extends over from the subtly of the arrangements and his vocal control to the quality control – here was a guy that started late and finished early; […]Archive
July 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 32 – Deep Purple, “Concerto For Group And Orchestra”
Deep Purple, Concerto for Group and Orchestra, 1969 I have a complicated history with this one – I probably thought about it before hearing it more than has been the case with any other album… Let me explain. Deep Purple was one of my first loves – a Singles collection by the band was the […]Archive
June 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 31 – Queen, “Hot Space”
Queen, Hot Space, 1982 It should have been called Hot Mess! Amiright? Or amiright? Most Queen fans hate Hot Space, rate it as the one to not rate – its saving grace being the final track, the duet with David Bowie – Under Pressure. Apart from that? What’s there? Messy, meaningless, disco-tinged pop-crap that has […]Archive
June 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 30 – The King, “Gravelands”
The King, Gravelands, 1998 Actually his real name is James Brown – something pretty funny about a white Irishman named James Brown who makes a crust by impersonating someone else; not only just someone else – but Elvis (“the King”): A white singer who made his name and based his act on sounding as black […]Archive
May 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 29 – Robbie Robertson, “How To Become Clairvoyant”
Robbie Robertson, How To Become Clairvoyant, 2011 He was in The Band – and not just in the band but he wrote or co-wrote most of the great material, many of the best songs you might ever hear. So Robbie Robertson is destined to get a free pass it seems. Because he is – as […]Archive
April 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 28 – Terence Trent D’Arby, “Neither Fish Nor Flesh”
Terence Trent D’Arby, Neither Fish Nor Flesh, 1989 There’s that wonderful scene in an episode of The Simpsons where, at a Planet Hollywood-themed restaurant or some such, Homer is shown various artefacts including, the script to the movie The Cable Guy. It hangs on the wall in a frame. Homer smashes the glass and rips […]Archive
April 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 27 – Aretha Franklin, “Who’s Zoomin’ Who”
Aretha Franklin, Who’s Zoomin’ Who, 1985 Maybe it’s a stretch to refer to this as a crap-album – since it was very well received at the time, considered a “comeback” of sorts. Then again, if you really love Aretha Franklin (as you absolutely should) then maybe it’s not going far enough to call this a […]Archive
April 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman