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April 15, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1530
Soul II Soul, Club Classics Vol. 1 (1989) So much of the dance/club music from the end of the 1980s/start of the 1990s that made it on to the charts – or dented the mainstream in some way – had the same beat. The same flow to the beat if not the very same sample. [...]Archive
March 17, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1576
Paul Simon, The Rhythm Of The Saints (1990) People forget about this album, or decide it’s some misplaced palinode – but really how do you follow on from Graceland? You may loathe that album, or have never heard it, but it was (is) a landmark. And four years on, after touring that album and introducing [...]Archive
February 5, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1638
Cowboy Junkies, The Caution Horses (1990) Okay, so The Trinity Session is the one – definitely. And that was my introduction to Cowboy Junkies and it was the band’s breakthrough. Everyone seemed to love that cover of Sweet Jane and, yeah, it’s pretty sweet – but I prefer the band’s cover of Neil Young’s Powderfinger. [...]Archive
December 31, 2011 by Simon Sweetman