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August 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 66

Mama Cass, Mama’s Big Ones: Her Greatest Hits  (1970) Those rose-tinted fuckers that tell you there was only great music back in the day and nothing great has ever come out today, I wonder if they ever peel off those shades and think about the embarrassing puns, the sexism, the crude, lewd, lazy attempts at […]
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March 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine has died. The session drumming legend was 90. What a life. What a legacy. If he wasn’t the most prolific sessioneer skinsman he was certainly the most successful of the busy-schedule players. A part of one of the greatest groups of all time – The Wrecking Crew (not a band as such, a collective […]
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December 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 351

The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Today! (1965) It’s about here – on their eighth album (already!) – that The Beach Boys start to grow up and away from the “Surf” songs; not that there’s anything wrong with the best of the surf songs. But here we get the start of the real sophistication – […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged "Surf" songs, 1965, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Good To My Baby, LP, Record, The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Today!, The Beatles, The Mamas and The Papas, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 351, The Wilson Brothers, Today!, Vinyl ·

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November 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: A Ham Sandwich Walks Into A Bar…

The old joke has it that if Karen Carpenter and Mama Cass had just shared the same ham sandwich they’d both be alive today. It’s hilarious – because one of them was rather thin, the other not so much. they both died due to conditions of the heart. (I’ve no idea where the ham sandwich […]
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April 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 907

The Mamas & The Papas, Farewell To The First Golden Era (1967) I used to have this on tape – same tracklisting, but just a generic “Greatest Hits” title. But it really is a top-notch comp; pretty chuffed to find this LP actually. I like The Mamas & The Papas, but you only really need […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Creeque Alley, LP, Mama Cass, Record, The Mamas and The Papas, The Vinyl Countdown # 907, Vinyl ·

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