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February 20, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1417

David Bowie, Let’s Dance (1983) I reckon this record gets a rough deal – it’s not that shit. It’s actually great. It’s got a bunch of great singles, great production (for/of the time). It’s a sharp pop record. The albums that followed are shit – but anyone that cuts David Bowie off at Scary Monsters [...]

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January 31, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1426

David Bowie, Low (1977) I can’t remember when I first heard this – but it was somewhat late in the piece. I’d heard loads of other David Bowie albums and compilations before I got to this. By the time I got to this in fact I’d heard all about it, read about it, knew about [...]

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December 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1445

David Bowie, ChangesOneBowie (1976) I already had the double-album/updated cassette tape version – but I bought this, I guess, for the cover as much as anything. It was cheap. It was snapped up, no real thought involved – just something to have, no real need to ever play it by that stage as I had [...]

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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 [...]

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April 11, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1536

David Bowie, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) My favourite songs are Five Years and Lady Stardust – but man, what a way to start, the first three songs: Five Years, Soul Love and Moonage Daydream. All good, all good! In fact Moonage Daydream was the thing that [...]

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January 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1656

David Bowie, Scary Monsters (1980) A friend bought Ziggy Stardust and shortly after made the leap straight to this. At the time all I had was the Changesbowie compilation – and I was happy with that. I knew the Let’s Dance album too – and then I started to delve (back) in to the world [...]

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December 1, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1734

Steve Kilbey and Ricky Maymi, Present: David Neil “The Wilderness Years” (2011) Steve Kilbey of The Church dreamed up (with Ricky Maymi of Brian Jonestown Massacre) this bonkers concept album wherein Kilbey is handed down the songs of David Neil (the name coming from David Bowie and Neil Young) and he and Maymi do their [...]

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September 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1835

David Bowie, Heathen (2002) Some people rave about Heathen, some are not so sure – there’s obviously a huge amount of David Bowie fans who gave up on him years ago. It’s a perfectly acceptable/realistic approach, after all, to only listen to Bowie across the 1970s – it is a stunning body of work. So [...]