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November 18, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1472
Cream, Best of Cream (1969) This record was a life-changer – and I never owned it. I had a long-term loan of what was left of my uncle’s record collection. He had some great stuff, metal, hard rock, blues, blues-rock, some prog and all the things that fit in the spaces in-between. And I took [...]Archive
November 13, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1483
Eric Clapton, 24 Nights (1991) It’s funny what you won’t be talked out of. It’s also not that often that someone working in a shop will try to talk you out of buying something. And I always respect that when it happens. And I did in this case too. I just didn’t listen. I’m walking [...]Archive
April 28, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1514
Jeff Beck, Flash (1985) It’s the worst Jeff Beck album – I’m pretty sure of it – but I had probably the opposite reaction to it when compared with another album from the same year by a guitar hero struggling to be relevant in the 1980s – that being Eric Clapton’s Behind The Sun, which [...]Archive
April 28, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1515
Eric Clapton, Behind The Sun (1985) So many of the big stars of the 1960s and 1970s really struggled to get to grips with where things were at in the 1980s. It’s as if they tried the same old tricks while being talked into the technology/recording techniques of the day – resulting, almost always, in [...]Archive
March 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1582
Roger Waters, The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (1984) I loved this album. Right time/right place I guess (Hawke’s Bay, early 1990s). I was a Pink Floyd fan. Which meant (also) I was a Roger Waters fan (they’re the same thing when you’re starting out)…this album feels like the dream Waters had when he [...]Archive
February 3, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1640
Jim Capaldi, Oh How We Danced (1972) As I was saying recently I’ve become a really big fan, just recently, of Eric Clapton’s self-titled album. When I owned it on cassette tape – while I was buying up Clapton stuff – I didn’t care for it all that much. Now it’s my favourite album by [...]Archive
January 24, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1652
Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton (1970) Funny how some shit works out. When I was a big-time Eric Clapton fan – when I was 13-16 years old especially (and then on until I was about 23 – here and there at least) I really didn’t care for this album much at all. I liked almost everything [...]Archive
January 8, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1676
John Mayall With Eric Clapton, Bluesbreakers (1966) Funny, just a couple of days ago I’m there contemplating buying a fancy-package vinyl reissue of this for $50 or whatever the cost was (might have been $45 actually). And I’m humming and haaaring and I am pretty sure that I have a copy still but can’t find [...]Archive
January 5, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1682
Eric Clapton, 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974) Though I have been enjoying checking out some old Eric Clapton albums (particularly the self-titled debut and Slowhand) I still can’t get on board with this one. My feelings towards it are probably a bit like how I feel about Neil Young’s Harvest album. Though I’d take Harvest over [...]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
September 13, 2011 by Simon Sweetman