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April 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Completing the 1001 Albums Challenge 

I had the 2005 version of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – I’d owned it for years and had a flip through the pages, but never really studied it. And then someone asked me how many of the albums I had heard – was it half? Was it all? I figured the […]
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April 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 145: Liars – “They Were Wrong, So We Drowned”

I do remember Liars though not much about them – and doubt I ever heard any of their albums – certainly not this – their second.  Look, maybe it’s good, but I feel very much the anti-climax as this is the end of the challenge for me, the final thing in the book – the final album on the list […]
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April 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 144: Cee-Lo Green – “Cee-Lo Green…Is The Soul Machine”

Cee-Lo Green…he’s a bit like the Elton John or Sting or Eric Clapton of his day really, in that people now might struggle to believe how potent, how good he once was. Since everything happens a lot quicker now this happened a lot quicker to Cee-Lo. There he was in Goodie Mob killing it and then across his first couple of solo albums […]
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April 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 143: Christina Aguilera – “Stripped”

Even though she-e-e-eeeeeeeeeeeee———-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee is very good, I thi-e-e-eeei-iiiiii-eeeee-iiiii-eeeee—nnnnk it isn’t the right time to be just discovering Christina Aquilera. And I course I’m not just discovering her, I was aware-e-air-e-aire-e-aire-aire-aire-aire-airrrrr of her and her oversing-e-in-e-ing-e-ing-eing at the tie-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime-e-ime. But I can’t say I’ve ever heard a full album by her. Until now-e-ow-e-ow-eow-eow-e-ow-eow-eow-e-ow-e-ow. Stripped is sorta ironically titled too – as it’s carrying far too much. The […]
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April 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 142: Destiny’s Child – “Survivor”

Though you couldn’t escape the big singles from this at the time – and I didn’t – it appears you could escape the album. I survived without hearing it in full right up until 2019. Beyonce is everywhere, or was until recently, and will be again no doubt. And the thing that launched her was Destiny’s Child – and though […]
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April 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 141: Silver Jews – “Bright Flight” 

I think this might be the only Silver Jews album I hadn’t heard. Funny. Not that I was ever a massive fan of the band – if that was the case I would have heard this album for a start. Just record store days really. You sought out the indie stuff, the cool stuff, the interesting stuff. That, plug peak days reviewing records. I […]
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March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 140: Red Snapper – “Our Aim Is To Satisfy”

I really don’t think I knew anything about this – not only this album but even the band Red Snapper. Now this is weird to me for one reason: Anything even vaguely Acid-Jazz related in and around the years 1997-2003 was entirely my bag. My bag clearly wasn’t big enough to keep this in it…  So it’s time and place […]
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March 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 139: Mike Ladd – “Welcome To The Afterfuture” 

Mike Ladd is a rapper I’ve been aware of for a while – yet I never heard this. It’s fantastic. Everything I’ve heard him do – or heard him on – has been great. I love his albums with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. He’s one of the people you can point to as furthering hip-hop, taking it beyond anger […]
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March 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 138: Limp Bizkit – “Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavored Water” 

A lot of this world’s problems and most of its very bad music comes from white dudes with daddy issues. And I was reminded of that finally listening to Limp Bizkit’s breakthrough album. I was reflecting on how lucky I was to be completely above (and beyond) nu-metal in all its numb-skull variations. I was ‘too […]
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March 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 137: Britney Spears – “…Baby One More Time”

I never listened to this at the time – but I couldn’t avoid the videos for the big singles, particularly the title track. It was everywhere. This was a teen sensation – and it was pitched in all the right ways (or wrong ways if you think about it) to a broad audience. Britney Spears, former child star, was […]
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March 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 136: Les Rythmes Digitales – “Darkdancer”

I know the name Stuart Price – from his remix and production duties, some big-name affiliations. And I knew – from reading about him – that he’d done a bunch of things under various one-man-band aliases and so on but I never lined up Les Rythmes Digitales with him – and I can’t say I ever knew this album.  But the sound of it is […]
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March 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 135: Skunk Anansie – “Post Orgasmic Chill”

I was never that into Skunk Anansie – and for petty reasons I think. My flatmate was into them. He talked about her sexy bald head. He wasn’t the only one. I was working in a music store at the time. And people loved this band. Or this person. They weren’t sure which – was she the artist or was it […]
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