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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 1, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1550
Grover Washington Jr, Inside Moves (1984) So charmingly inoffensive as to end up offensive, I never understood this sort of music. Grover Washington Jr was a name I knew for a long time before I ever heard any of his music – I never really got the “soft-jazz” genre. Or “dinner-jazz/dinner-music”. Fuck that noise. (Or [...]Archive
March 16, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1577
Sade, Diamond Life (1984) Bam! The first three songs: Smooth Operator, Your Love Is King, Hang On To Your Love. Inescapable – and almost implausibly sublime. It was the start of the mid-80s and maybe this is the wine-cooler version of jazz-lite and R’n’B-inflected adult pop – but it was everywhere and it was flawless. [...]Archive
March 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1582
Roger Waters, The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (1984) I loved this album. Right time/right place I guess (Hawke’s Bay, early 1990s). I was a Pink Floyd fan. Which meant (also) I was a Roger Waters fan (they’re the same thing when you’re starting out)…this album feels like the dream Waters had when he [...]Archive
February 8, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1632
Mark Knopfler, Cal [OST] (1984) What a prolific time it was in the mid-1980s for Mark Knopfler – he was running a band that became too huge and he was offering his guitar services and production/songwriting skills all over the place. Plus he was making soundtracks to idiosyncratic films; soundtracks that were purchased by people [...]Archive
January 8, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1675
Clannad, Legend (1984) I went to a Clannad concert once. Not as a reviewer. As a paying customer. I went by myself too – that part’s probably not surprising; there wasn’t even a queue when I went to buy the ticket (over the counter in those days; no internet purchasing). At university I tried [...]Archive
December 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1695
Emmylou Harris, Profile II: The Best Of Emmylou Harris (1984) This collection covers off five albums that Emmylou Harris released from the end of the 1970s to the mid-1980s. I would later go and collect all the Harris material on CD but this – and the earlier first volume (Profile: The Best Of Emmylou Harris) [...]Archive
December 9, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1722
The Animals, The Most Of The Animals (1981) Nostalgia’s a funny thing. I don’t exactly care for The Animals. But then again, I don’t exactly not care (I mean I’m writing this, now – and of my own choosing). This compilation is titled in the way it is because these were all Mickie Most productions [...]Archive
June 3, 2011 by Simon Sweetman