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October 31, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1783
The Sweet, Teenage Rampage (1981) My introduction to The Sweet was via a couple of compilation cassette tapes of various 1960s and 1970s rock performances and – almost incongruously – there were the songs Fox On The Run and Wig Wam Bam . The Sweet sounded like an extra-camp, bubblegum version of T.Rex. Or something [...]Archive
October 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1784
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Pack Up The Plantation Live! (1985) My brother had this on CD. I knew some Tom Petty stuff already, specifically Damn The Torpedoes. And I started really getting in to his music around the time of Full Moon Fever – so this was a handy gap-filler of sorts. I heard [...]Archive
October 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1785
Julien Dyne, Pins & Digits (2009) I knew Julien Dyne was a great drummer, having heard a bunch of his work away from his solo material where he extends the role out to beat-maker, producer, songwriter, DJ. There’s a lot of twisted-disco and broken-beat soul-music and the like that I am a huge fan of [...]Archive
October 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1786
Lindsey Buckingham, Law & Order (1981) What a time for Lindsey Buckingham – the early 1980s. An amazing run really – following his masterpiece, Tusk (almost a solo album) with this; his first official solo album – and then there was that movie soundtrack song and another Fleetwood Mac album which contained this gem among [...]Archive
October 28, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1787
Bernard Hermann, Taxi Driver [OST][Picture Disc] (1976) One of the first things that hit me with watching the film Taxi Driver was the evocative score, one of Bernard Hermann’s final pieces of music – he died very shortly after completing it; he didn’t live to see the release of the film. I’ve seen Taxi Driver [...]Archive
October 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1788
Wings, Wings At The Speed Of Sound (1976) I was never a big fan of this album – but I do like Wings. I was more in to the albums before this and of course the final Wings album. But I’ve been listening to this a bit lately – picked up for a fiver a [...]Archive
October 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1789
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble, Couldn’t Stand The Weather (1984) This wasn’t the first Stevie Ray Vaughan album I ever heard (that was In Step) but this was my introduction to SRV; specifically the song/video for Cold Shot. My brother showed me it – he had found it on something we’d videoed late at [...]Archive
October 26, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1790
Wilson Pickett, The Exciting Wilson Pickett (1966) This is Wilson Pickett’s second album and actually it’s the only one I own by him. I used to have a pretty decent/comprehensive CD compilation but I’m not sure where that’s even go to now; I think I loaned it to someone and it never made it back. [...]Archive
October 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1791
Harold Budd/Brian Eno, Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980) The second in Brian Eno’s ambient series (hey, the clue is in the title!) this owes as much or more to Harold Budd’s work (the clue is in the order of the musicians). Eno had produced Budd and the pair decided to collaborate, so it’s [...]Archive
October 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1792
Cold Chisel, Circus Animals (1982) I like Cold Chisel. They’re a good band that has, in some circles, suffered a bit of a bad rep as it is easily enjoyed/understood as bogan/meathead music. Some smart songwriting – particularly from Don Walker – informs the band’s best work and I always thought Ian Moss was/is a [...]Archive
October 24, 2011 by Simon Sweetman