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July 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 73: The Saints – “Eternally Yours”
I met Ed Kuepper a couple of years ago. I was the DJ before and after his set – he played a great gig and I felt lucky to be “on the bill”, sharing the bill with a legend. He was very polite, he approached me a few times during my opening set to ask […]Archive
June 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 72: Willie Colón & Rubén Blades – “Siembra”
As good as it is to hear albums I’ve heard of, know of, know about and by bands or artists I know and perhaps have collected up – but just not the one album mentioned as ‘The Classic’…it’s better, more interesting, more exciting, when I hear the albums I didn’t even know about. Like this. […]Archive
June 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 71: Buzzcocks – “Another Music In A Different Kitchen”
Gosh, it felt like just the other day that I was talking about how I loved Magazine (and Buzzcocks too) but didn’t really know the albums – certainly not the “classic” albums…well, it was just the other day…and now here we are with the Buzzcocks’ debut. An album I really don’t know well at all. […]Archive
June 23, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 70: Throbbing Gristle – “D.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle”
I might like the idea of Throbbing Gristle as much – or more – as the actual music. Pioneering industrial group, as much an actual piece of art, a concept, as a ‘band’. That said I’ve enjoyed their 20 Jazz Funk Greats a great deal. And yet I haven’t dipped much more of a toe […]Archive
June 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 69: Magazine – “Real Life”
I’d love to say I’m a huge Magazine fan – but I’m not, simply because I’ve not really bothered. Funnily enough, the Magazine album I know best, is the 2011 release (from a reunion phase) called No Thyself. I reckon that’s brilliant. A really great album. So – I’d never heard Real Life but I […]Archive
June 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 68: The Adverts – “Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts”
A couple of years ago I agreed to be on a podcast where we had to read a massive-huge book and talk about it, for my episode it was the Norman Mailer tome, The Executioner’s Song. I agreed because the Pulitzer-prize winner had long been on my long-list of must-(get-to-)reads. So this forced my hand. […]Archive
June 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 67: Ian Dury – “New Boots and Panties!!”
We were in Australia a few years ago now – a decade or so – and the waitress comes over with the giant pepper-grinder and asks if anyone wants some cracked pepper on their meal. My father-in-law pipes right up, “Hit. Me. With. Your. Rhythm. Stick!” Shit, we laughed. I have no idea when I […]Archive
June 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 66: Suicide– “Suicide”
Another of those bands/albums where I knew about it, knew I was “supposed” to have heard it, etc. But the truth, obviously, is I had not. I did know about Suicide. And Alan Vega. But mostly just from reading books that document the era, from seeing docos, from the history of music… I knew a […]Archive
June 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 65: The Stranglers – “Rattus Norvegicus”
The late 1970s/early 1980s, the punk and post-punk, that’s the era/s and genre/s were I’m going to come up short in this challenge – and it’s the stuff I love; but I guess, age-wise, it’s a case of loving it now more so than then. So this is where you get situations like this: I’d […]Archive
June 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 64: Weather Report – “Heavy Weather”
Even if I had never heard of Weather Report (I have, I’ve owned a few of their albums – just never this, had never heard this one, their seventh) I’d sign up once I knew who was in the band. It was the launching pad for some great players and a home to several legends, […]Archive
May 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman