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November 17, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1474
Little Feat, Electrif Lycanthrope (Be-Bop Deluxe) (1974) Bootlegs are something I’m forever dubious about – I’ve been given a few bootleg CDs and Mp3s and they can be interesting if you really love the band – but soon enough you return to decent quality, to the official releases. That changed a bit with downloading/iPods/Mp3s I [...]Archive
May 1, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1511
The Hollies, Their Twenty Greatest Hits (1974) The Hollies – now here’s a singles band, my word. Went to their gig just the other year, expected it to be some oldies phoning it in – but they delivered. So many hits, pretty much everything on this album – just hit after hit. Immaculate pop songs. [...]Archive
April 29, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1513
Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic (1974) A key album this – for both the band and me. It was the first Steely Dan LP I heard – the first album away from all the singles I knew and a couple of Greatest Hits-type compilations. It’s also the bridging album for the band between being an actual [...]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
March 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1568
Neil Diamond, His 12 Greatest Hits (1974) Hmm…Why would you need this album, this compilation of Neil Diamond hits? Let me see if I can think of a reason. I can think of 12, actually. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Easy. Sample Track: (See all 12 above) The [...]Archive
March 9, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1588
Lou Reed, Sally Can’t Dance (1974) One of my favourite Lou Reed LPs. Recorded in the fug and fall of amphetamines, apocryphal stories surround it – Lou was mostly in a near-coma, woken up from time to time to record a vocal. He was a star and a cult hero and this album shows why [...]Archive
February 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1610
The Guess Who, Road Food (1974) Blame Canada! I don’t know why I have this album. I can only suggest that the price was cheap and I had been turned on by American Woman through various 1960s/Vietnam-era compilations. So I bought Road Food – which doesn’t contain that song (so I could hear some more [...]Archive
February 13, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1622
One of the first full albums by Bob that I heard. The first credited to Bob Marley & The Wailers. And what a great opening trio of songs. There’s passion, politics, melody, groove and so much of this music resonates with me still. But I don’t/can’t listen to Bob all that often these days. Might [...]Archive
February 12, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1624
Dan Fogelberg, Souvenirs (1974) I had never listened to Dan Fogelberg. I bought this album for a buck because his name had been mentioned and that’s what you did pre-internet. You didn’t expect a link to convince you, you just dived in with music; took a punt. Well this is one punt I never quite [...]Archive
January 5, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1682
Eric Clapton, 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974) Though I have been enjoying checking out some old Eric Clapton albums (particularly the self-titled debut and Slowhand) I still can’t get on board with this one. My feelings towards it are probably a bit like how I feel about Neil Young’s Harvest album. Though I’d take Harvest over [...]Archive
December 21, 2011 by Simon Sweetman