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June 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 115
The Shirelles, The Single Collection (2015) I don’t know where or when I first heard The Shirelles – one of the bands you find out about after you hear the songs; you just sort of know them forever without ever really knowing about them…or maybe it’s the other way even, you know about them without […]Archive
May 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 116
Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me (1986) I first learned about Boris Gardiner due to a random library-find, back in those busy toddler-caring days of finding some salvation by digging in the library’s music section. The album, Every Nigger Is A Star, a soundtrack album to a banned movie was the one. A fantastic album. Gardiner […]Archive
May 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 117
Ken Boothe, Everything I Own (1974) Ken Boothe is a sort of journeyman Jamaican vocalist – made over in the early 1970s to sing some Johnny Nash-styled pop-reggae vibes. I like the best of his work a great deal, fantastic cover versions and he wrote a few tunes too. He has great musicians in support […]Archive
May 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 118
Chet Baker, Chet Baker Plays The Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) I’m big time into Art Pepper right now – which means a trip back to Chet Baker too; the two inseparable for me even though they didn’t always work together. They burst from the same scene, or created the scene and then burst […]Archive
May 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 120
Augustus Pablo, El Rocker’s (2000) I remember being introduced to the music of Augustus Pablo – early 2000s. Like many things with music (and you don’t often know it when it’s happening) it came at exactly the right time. I was a fan of some reggae and dub music but didn’t know a lot and […]Archive
May 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 121
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Rastaman Vibration (1976) Having made the decision, albeit belatedly, to get all the key Bob Marley albums on vinyl (I have a few already so it’s not a particularly Herculean task) and this is one of the albums I didn’t listen to a lot at the time that I first […]Archive
May 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 122
Roots Radics, Dubbing At Channel 1 (2017) Lockdown has reconnected me with reggae, with dub, with lovers rock, ska, rocksteady – and holy shit maybe even dancehall. Jamaican music and the versions of it that appear throughout the world (especially the UK scene/s) has been a crucial part of the soundtrack to lockdown in my […]Archive
May 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 123
Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield, What Have I Done To Deserve This? [Single] (1987) My little joke – to myself – is keeping this broken record. It cracked in a way so that the label can still be read, the song-title What Have I Done To Deserve This? Seeming pretty funny, to me at […]Archive
May 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 124
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Live! (1975) Bob Marley & The Wailers – at least the 1975 version of the band – sound frighteningly good here on what is one of Bob’s best albums, one of the greatest live albums and possibly one of the great-great albums – unless you’re my wife, who says of […]Archive
May 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 125
Earl Klugh, Low Ride (1983) If I have a record – and artist – that would jump in and out of the “Guilty Pleasure” category (if I did actually have a Guilty Pleasure category) then it would be this album in particular, and more generally Earl Klugh. Look, he’s obviously great – and I love […]Archive
May 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman