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October 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1003

Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight (1982)
Great 28There it was all of a sudden – right before my eyes in the store (it had probably been there before). But on that day (yesterday) it was there (once more) and I had to have it. The CD version was no longer enough, it gets played on the iPod but I wanted the artefact. Chuck Berry is the great poet of the rock’n’roll era – these sweet, sad songs inside rockabilly and surf-music riffs, all at once a bit playful and cheeky, also dark though. And in half a decade the man crafted some hits. Man. He’s still going too – just turned (the great) 88. I’ve got other Chuck Berry comps but this is the one – one of the all-time greatest Greatest Hits by anyone ever. (It was $27.50 – I missed the chance to ask to pay $28 for it. Damn!)

Sample Track: Maybellene

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