Posts Tagged 1981
Archive
April 10, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1538
J.J. Cale, Shades (1981) I’ve only recently discovered that I own this album. So beyond knowing that I’ve had it for a while I have no idea actually how long I’ve owned this. I do like J.J. Cale – but I forget about that these days. He’s probably pretty easy to forget about; he’s probably [...]Archive
April 7, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1543
The Manhattan Transfer, Mecca For Moderns (1981) Many a time I was woken up during the school holidays with the opening cut from this record – On The Boulevard. Impossibly slick. I hear it now and can tell that Steves Lukather and Gadd are playing the guitar and drum parts respectively. I don’t even need [...]Archive
April 3, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1548
Marianne Faithfull, Dangerous Acquaintances (1981) I would have bought this album after reading the autobiography – a very good read. But I wouldn’t have had a turntable at the time – so I never got around to playing this. I seem to recall that I picked it up in a bundle at a market they [...]Archive
March 24, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1564
Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports, Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports (1981) My favourite “solo” effort by a Pink Floyd member (apart from Syd Barrett’s albums). Of course you could argue (correctly) that this is no solo album. Carla Bley wrote and produced the material, Robert Wyatt sung most of it – those are reasons to sign up [...]Archive
February 13, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1623
Bruce Springsteen, As Requested Around The World (1981) This promo album features five tracks from The River on side one and then tracks from Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town and The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle on side two. Just a nine-track album – but it’s become a [...]Archive
February 6, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1634
Smokey Robinson, Being With You (1981) Smokey Robinson is a great songwriter and vocalist. That’s a given. But you might not know that if you listened to most of this record – beyond the title track. I always liked the title track, that’s why I bought this. That and the fact that it was $2. [...]Archive
February 6, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1635
Marti Caine, Point Of View (1981) I am thumbing through some albums –as I do some nights while working. I just flick through and think I’ll find just the right thing to play. Or the wrong thing of course. I’m looking also for things that will trigger blog-posts, and things that trigger memories. (Memories trigger [...]Archive
January 26, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1649
Dolly Parton, Country Music [Time Life] (1981) I reckon I was unfairly put off Dolly Parton growing up in Hawke’s Bay in the 1980s. Back then (and there) you could tell a country music fan by the way they smiled – you only needed the fingers on one hand to count the teeth. (Possibly you’d [...]Archive
January 25, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1650
Debbie Harry, KooKoo (1981) What a treat it was to find this album. I really didn’t know much about it – but as part of a Nile Rodgers kick I started reading up about this album and decided I had to hear it. I like Blondie sure. And Debbie Harry a bit too. Yep. But [...]Archive
January 19, 2012 by Simon Sweetman