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May 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Listening To Tusk, Thinking It’s The Greatest
Five years old and listening to Tusk – thinking it’s the greatest album, well to be fair I really just love the title track. When the drums go bananas I think of Animal from The Muppet Show. He’s my absolute hero. Ten years old and listening to Tusk – thinking it’s the greatest album, well […]Archive
March 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
A Bunch of Rumours: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours
Christine McVie believes it was her estranged husband John who made the call that the new record Fleetwood Mac was creating sounded like “a bunch of rumours”. And so, Rumours was what it was called. Rumours came into my life when I was about 11 years old; by that stage it had been out a decade […]Archive
August 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Best Guitarist in The World: # 11 – Lindsey Buckingham
You never even used to see this guy considered for The Best Guitarist lists…and, actually, maybe you still don’t, come to think of it…but I reckon something changed when the core version of Fleetwood Mac, the classic FM-music version of the group, reformed for Bill Clinton’s inauguration and started a victory-lap tour of sorts. (One […]Archive
September 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Tweedy: Sukierae
Tweedy Sukierae Anti/Epitaph Here Jeff Tweedy of Wilco has made a double album with his son Spencer on drums. It’s so painfully long and pleased with itself they should have called it Ron Jeremy. Actually, it would make more sense, on paper maybe, if this was the new Ryan Adams album – and the self-titled […]Archive
May 3, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Fleetwood Mac: Extended Play – EP
Fleetwood Mac Extended Play – EP LMJS Productions Though you could argue it’s phoned in by the title alone, I really like this four-track EP by Fleetwood Mac, the band’s first release in a decade and their second set of recordings sans Christine McVie. Once again her presence is missed – because it’s now just […]Archive
February 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours – 35th Anniversary Edition
Fleetwood Mac Rumours: 35th Anniversary Edition Warners The album remains a revelation to me – and it’s not even my favourite Fleetwood Mac record; I prefer Tusk and many of the pre-Buckingham/Nicks albums/line-ups. But I do love Rumours. And I have the feeling that even people who don’t (want to) like Rumours possibly own it, […]Archive
April 8, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1541
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (1977) Maybe I should treat myself to a new version of this but the old second-hand copy I have – picked up for a buck or two some years back (with a chewed corner on the sleeve) – seems to play okay when I want to play it. Also, this music is […]Archive
February 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1608
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk (1979) One of the defining albums of my childhood – and therefore always my favourite Fleetwood Mac record. I still have the copy that my mum used to play when I was four-five-six-seven-eight years old. And that I started playing myself from then too – and on through high-school and university. […]Archive
October 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman