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March 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1565
Method Of Destruction (M.O.D.), U.S.A. For M.O.D. (1987) A guy gave me a tape of this album. I didn’t ask for it. He gave me a tape, also, of King Missile’s They [Dog Fly Religion]. So the suggestion, I guess, bundling the two together, is that M.O.D. was worth listening to for the humour. An [...]Archive
March 11, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1587
Icehouse, Man Of Colours (1987) I can remember when I first heard this album. It was the last day of primary school. A hot December Friday in Havelock North; we were allowed to leave early because usually we found out what class we would be in the next year – but with the completion of [...]Archive
February 16, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1619
Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987) I loved this album from the time it was released – I think I told you all about that when I wrote about The Delicate Sound Of Thunder. But for a while it was almost a guilty pleasure liking this album. The Pink Floyd album you weren’t [...]Archive
February 15, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1620
Rick Astley, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987) Of course I’m never gonna give this up. Bought for $1 (can you believe the nerve? The prices they’re charging for this shit!) and now I have a very old-school approach to Rickrolling people. Thumb through my record collection and you might fall on to this album. I [...]Archive
January 9, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1674
The Warratahs, The Only Game In Town (1987) I can remember the TV and magazine ads and clips for this album and whilst I was not raised on anything resembling country this appealed. It would be a long time before I heard the album but I always wanted to like The Warratahs before I even [...]Archive
December 15, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1715
Eric Clapton, The Cream Of Eric Clapton (1987) Okay, whilst I will hear plenty of bad words about Eric Clapton (and have uttered several myself, and even more so when listening to just about anything he’s released in the last 35 years) I will not hear a bad word about this compilation. Sure, there [...]Archive
December 11, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1720
Suzanne Vega, Solitude Standing (1987) This was the first Suzanne Vega album I heard – and then the first I bought on vinyl. It’s something of a favourite – although I like all of her albums. This was the introduction though – with those two big songs; still the biggest two songs of her career, [...]Archive
November 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1774
Alf, Stuck On Earth 12” (1987) I loved Alf – the TV show. And so I purchased the 12” Stuck On Earth single released under his name. What a ridiculous thing to own. It was played a couple of times – and giggled at (as an 11 year old was wont to do at the [...]Archive
August 22, 2011 by Simon Sweetman