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February 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Elle Hunt

Elle Hunt is a reporter for The Dominion Post, but is better known for tweeting about pop music. She is a former co-editor of Victoria University’s Salient magazine. Here are five album’s she’s loving right now… 1 – Randy Newman, Little Criminals: My dad’s fondness for Randy Newman meant I knew all the words to Political Science (“Let’s drop the big [...]

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January 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1666

Th’ Dudes, So You Wanna Be A Rock’n’Roll Star (1982) First of all my brother had the split CD with this and six songs from Hello Sailor. And we loved it (the whole family loved it). I was, at the time, more taken with Th’ Dudes portion than the Sailor stuff. But that was because [...]

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January 4, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1684

Jimmy Barnes, For The Working Class Man (1985) This was my introduction to Jimmy Barnes; his second solo album. I knew this before I knew Cold Chisel. My aunty was (presumably still is?) a massive fan. And she had the tapes of this and Freight Train Heart – later my mum would buy that double [...]

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January 3, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1686

Steely Dan, Katy Lied (1975) A killer record this; as most of the Steely Dan albums are. And I can report (only now in fact) that this is my favourite album by the Dan. But you see it was the last of their albums that I heard. I knew the hit songs of course – [...]

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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 [...]