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February 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
This Must Be The Place: Film
This Must Be The Place Director: Paolo Sorrentino Trinity Film I found it best, 10 minutes in, to think of Sean Penn’s character Cheyenne as not just Robert Smith of The Cure, but Robert Smith of The Cure post-stroke. And maybe that’s why they couldn’t go there completely with this as any sort of official [...]Archive
December 9, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant
David Byrne & St. Vincent Love This Giant 4AD Well, this should be good – and you can tell that it wants to be but it’s definitely one of those so-good-on-paper collaboration ideas that it could never live up to the hope/hype in reality. And it doesn’t. Miss St. Vincent has always had a wide-eyed [...]Archive
April 13, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1533
Talking Heads, Fear Of Music (1979) As I’ll say every time, all the time, every Talking Heads album contains some (plenty) of magic. Fear Of Music is (certainly) no exception. I remember hearing a few of these songs out of context, away from the album first. Some of my favourites from the band: Heaven, Life [...]Archive
March 30, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1553
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978) The same day that my aunty gave me a copy of an Eagles tape she also gave me this album (cassette tape). I was mostly listening to CDs then but still had a tape-player in the car. I’d been a Talking Heads fan for some time [...]Archive
March 26, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1560
Talking Heads, Naked (1988) People forget about this album – or try to forget about this album. I can’t go calling it the best Talking Heads album. But I don’t agree with the idea that only the first four albums were worth it. I like all of the band’s material – as I outlined here [...]Archive
March 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1567
Robert Fripp, Network (1985) A network is important for a guitarist like Robert Fripp. I’ve been enjoying this mini-album/EP. It showcases some of his musical friends (Daryl Hall, David Byrne, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno) but it also, naturally, showcases Fripp. You might hear him play wilder stuff elsewhere – but there’s a logical [...]Archive
September 10, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1857
Talking Heads, Talking Heads :77 (1977) Whenever some young, momentarily hip band is compared to Talking Heads I feel like it’s actually a little bit unkind to both – usually the idea of a comparison is something mutually flattering. But how could just any band tap in to what the Heads did. And if so [...]Archive
June 3, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1979
Field Music, Field Music (Measure) (2010) One of my favourite albums of last year was this, the third by Field Music. It was my first time hearing an album by the band. I loved it so much I picked up their first two albums. And I wrote this rave about the Measure album. So I’m [...]Archive
May 20, 2011 by Simon Sweetman