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March 18, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1574
John Lennon/Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy (1980) I gave away my dad’s copy of this album – so had to buy another copy some years down the track. But this album was a staple growing up. The rule was that you skipped the tracks featuring Yoko Ono (far easier once the CD player came along). And [...]Archive
February 5, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1637
The Beatles, With The Beatles (1963) To start with I was really only interested in The Beatles from 1965 onwards – the last few albums particularly, post-Sgt Peppers. But I was raised on the band, as much of a cheap and easy cliché as that may be – my folks were big fans, my dad [...]Archive
December 11, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1721
V/A, We Can Work It Out: Covers & Cookies of Lennon, McCartney & The Beatles (2005) This double LP of Beatles covers features funk and soul and R’n’B and there are reggae-tinged and jazz trace-around covers too. One of my favourites was always Ike and Tina Turner doing Come Together. And of course that great [...]Archive
December 4, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1728
Harry Nilsson, Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) Firstly, how good is that title – I couldn’t be sure that it wasn’t a Greatest Hits when I first got it; such a great title. And secondly, this is possibly the best $1 record I’ve ever bought. It would have to rate. (That’s a topic for another time; worth [...]Archive
October 9, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1817
Paul McCartney, McCartney (1970) Did Paul McCartney invent the concept of the one-man-band? No, but this charming wee bedsit folk-pop/rock album was clearly pretty influential in its own homespun way. And it’s also criminally underrepresented by McCartney whenever he plays live and by the compilers of Macca hit collections. This is the problem with McCartney’s [...]Archive
August 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1882
John Lennon, The John Lennon Collection (1982) The first posthumous John Lennon collection, this is the compilation that I turn to rather than his albums. John – out of The Beatles – doesn’t really do it for me. People mock Macca but he delivers. John didn’t. Okay, so Plastic Ono Band is a masterpiece. And [...]Archive
May 26, 2011 by Simon Sweetman