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August 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Wearing The Inside Out: How Often Have You Actually Destroyed A Record Through Overplay and/or Undercare or Is It Just A Line You Say To Make It Seem Like You Listened To It Heaps?
Last year I spoke to three different people in three different music stores in the first days following David Bowie’s death and all of them have a version of the same story: the majority of people that went in to inquire about Ziggy Stardust or The Man Who Sold The World or Hunky Dory or […]Archive
January 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. David Bowie
David Bowie (b. David Jones, January 8, 1947) was a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, painter and actor. He was an icon. He remains that. We throw about words like ‘Legend’ and ‘Icon’ too easily these days. It’s hard to think of just one word to encapsulate Bowie. But we could use the word ‘Artist’ – […]Archive
August 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1310
David Bowie, Stage (1978) You know I only got hip to this album when it was reissued on CD a wee while back now, maybe 10 years ago or so. I hadn’t heard it before then. I knew a lot of the material, obviously, but not these versions. I had plenty of David Bowie albums […]Archive
April 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1520
David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (1974) “This ain’t rock’n’roll…this is GENOCIDE!” One of my favourite David Bowie albums – in as much as I have half a dozen of them. The post-Ziggy Orwellian concept-album/rock-opera with Bowie’s own shitty guitar (which I love). I’ve been loving, lately, seeing the straight line with Bowie albums (not the same […]Archive
April 11, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1536
David Bowie, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) My favourite songs are Five Years and Lady Stardust – but man, what a way to start, the first three songs: Five Years, Soul Love and Moonage Daydream. All good, all good! In fact Moonage Daydream was the thing that […]Archive
January 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1656
David Bowie, Scary Monsters (1980) A friend bought Ziggy Stardust and shortly after made the leap straight to this. At the time all I had was the Changesbowie compilation – and I was happy with that. I knew the Let’s Dance album too – and then I started to delve (back) in to the world […]Archive
September 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman