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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 37 – Ma$e, “Welcome Back”
Ma$e, Welcome Back 2004 Mase. He was the new protégé after Biggie bought it. And back when Puff Daddy was blowing smoke up other people’s arses, not just his own. Mase hit in big with Harlem World and with his guest appearances in the late 1990s. Then he went soft. Welcome Back was his “comeback” […]Archive
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