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February 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 335 

Hothouse Flowers, Don’t Go [Single] (1988) Hothouse Flowers – good band! Saw them live a couple of times, once still in their ascendancy and then many years on. They still sounded great. Good show. Very capable. But it was a school night. In a wee pub down the road. And no one seemed to really give a fuck – […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1988, Dire Straits, Don't Go, Eighties, Hothouse Flowers, Ireland, Irish, LP, Pop, Record, Saved, Single, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 335, Vinyl ·

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February 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 336

Don Henley, The Boys of Summer [Single] (1984) Confession time – all this “I hate the fuckin’ Eagles shit” (and I mean that by the way, always!) – but I have a soft spot for some of the solo stuff. And I include amongst that not very much by Don Henley but most certainly this song. A banger. A gem. I dunno. […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1984, A Month of Sundays, Boys of Summer, Eagles, Eighties, EP, Garden of Allah, LP, Record, Single, The Boys of Summer, The Eagles, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 336, Vinnie Colaiuta, Vinyl ·

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February 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 337

The Beatles, The Beatles Box (1980) Growing up, the music of The Beatles was all around – my dad had lost/got rid of some of his records but we had a decent smattering and some of the solo records from the post-break-up years too. A couple of compilations were added to the collection as we grew up […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, 8-LP, Box, box-set, Liverpool, Love Me Do, LP, Record, Records, The Beatles, The Beatles Box, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 337, Vinyl ·

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February 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 338

Lionel Hampton, Saturday Night Jazz Fever (1978) I took a punt on Lionel Hampton back in the day; bought a double CD comp from a closing down sale for $5-10 and loved it. I didn’t know what I was getting – beyond the fact that it was jazz. Clearly jazz. Then I looked him pup, found out about […]
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January 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 339

Aerosmith, Love In An Elevator [Single] (1989) As more time passes the more the band Aerosmith seems truly fucking awful. Just atrocious. Dreadful-as. With one or two moments. But barely a decent single-disc greatest hits can be compiled. My introduction to the band was a ten-track collection of the group’s 70s triumphs, not bad, but in places […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1989, Aerosmith, Dude Looks Like A Lady, Love In An Elevator, LP, Pump, Single, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 339, Vinyl, Young Lust ·

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January 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 340

Grady Tate, By Special Request (1974) Grady Tate – simply one of my all-time favourite drummers, and I got to write a bit about that and a bit about him in memorial. Sad that so often we mark these moments only after a person has gone. And shortly before Tate died I got rather hooked on his crooner albums from the […]
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January 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 341

Schnell-Fenster, Whisper [Single] (1988) I have a very close relationship to this single – not just because I love Schnell-Fenster and of course the album this comes from. But I keep buying and selling this single. I would collect a few 45s, then decide I don’t really want to have singles – so I’d sell up a bunch. Then […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Lamplight, Phil Judd, Schnell-Fenster, The Sound Of Trees, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 341, Whisper ·

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January 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 342

V/A, Rikky and Pete [OST] (1988) I was chuffed to find this – something I knew about for a while…it’s the soundtrack to a film of the same name (obviously). Have yet to see the film, just this trailer. But I’ll hunt it out. The songs here (mostly) come from Phil Judd, many under the […]
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December 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 346

George Harrison, Cloud Nine (1987) It’s been a big year for me and The Beatles – I’ve fallen in love with the band again and the solo careers of all its members, the big revelation has probably been just how much I really do love a lot of the John Lennon material (far more than […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1987, 2ser, Cloud Nine, Eighties, ELO, Elton John, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, LP, Record, Ringo Starr, RNZ, That's What It Takes, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 346, Vinyl ·

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December 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 347

Ringo Starr, Sentimental Journey (1970) Poor old Ringo Starr. I say “Poor old Ringo Starr”, when there’s nothing poor about him. Nice life, great drummer, in the best band in the world, lucky timing on that too, etc. And it really hasn’t mattered what he did after. I mean he’s as well-known – actually probably […]
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December 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 348

Paul McCartney, No More Lonely Nights [Single] (1984) The mark of Macca the craftsman, the master of conjuring melodies, making magic out of almost anything, out of nowhere, can be heard her. His Give My Regards to Broadway is a barely-endearing flop (I bought it years back on VHS and watched it more than once, […]
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December 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 350

The Black Crowes, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1992) I loved The Black Crowes back in the early 1990s – and I stuck with them for a while, good band; great players, even liked some of the stuff many of the members went on to do outside and away from the band. It was […]
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