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March 26, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1561
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Whatever Happened To My Rock’n’Roll [Single/EP] (2001) It’s a double single, four songs, four sides. So as well as the title song there’s Red Eyes And Tears, Fail Safe and Down Here. Good times. I like some of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/B.R.M.C. stuff – but I went and saw them [...]Archive
March 21, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1570
Michael Kiwanuka, Home Again EP (2011) People started talking up Michael Kiwanuka – I kept getting sent the clip of Whole Lotta Love. Good on him, but I just didn’t get the buzz based on that. Maybe because the world doesn’t really need any (more) Led Zeppelin covers. It was a different story as soon [...]Archive
March 20, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1571
Robert Plant, Band Of Joy (2010) I love the journey that Robert Plant is on with (his) music. Here that journey involves Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller (I’d buy any album that had them on it anyway). There are two Low covers and renditions of songs by Richard Thompson and Los Lobos. This album is [...]Archive
January 31, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1644
Robert Plant, Pictures At Eleven (1982) I’m enjoying going back to the early Robert Plant solo albums now – you can hear his whole career as a shaking off of the Led Zeppelin tag. He’s not embarrassed about it (why would you be?) but he has, over his solo catalogue, removed himself from just [...]Archive
November 3, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1777
Robert Plant, Manic Nirvana (1990) It was back in the days when a trip to the big Marbecks store in Auckland was a helluva treat. I’d get to go there once a year – and it was a big deal! I’d almost be hyperventilating with excitement. There were people that knew stuff about music and [...]Archive
October 8, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1819
Van Morrison, Moondance (1970) It’s a great shame, it’s annoying, it’s almost amusing really, it’s probably ironic and it is without question that the worst song on the Van Morrison album Moondance is the song called Moondance; the title song, the song the album takes its name from. But then, I never listened to this [...]Archive
August 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1878
Led Zeppelin, Presence (1976) Isn’t it funny how your tastes change within the work of one band even as you get older? For some (whatever) reason, even at my peak of Led Zeppelin fandom in my teen years (and early 20s) I thought that Presence was a dud. I didn’t care for it. Sure, I [...]Archive
August 20, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1887
Joan Baez, In Concert (1962) Funny how we revere the early Bob Dylan stuff so much (still), eagerly waiting for whatever “new discovery” the archivists roll out for money. Why not pay attention instead to something like this? And surely it deserves a flash new reissue with some promotion behind it? Or is it better [...]Archive
August 10, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1901
Audioslave, Audioslave (2002) The problem with Audioslave was in the packaging – such a conscious attempt to build a supergroup; to come off like some new millennial Led Zeppelin. I liked the first album a wee bit – at the time. But didn’t think the band would ever last. I was surprised when a second [...]Archive
July 28, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1911
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (1969) It’s not my favourite Led Zeppelin album – that will come up later on in the Countdown – but it’s one of my favourites; it’s also the first Led Zeppelin original album I heard. My introduction to the band was the Remasters compilation. But somewhere along the line, some [...]Archive
June 3, 2011 by Simon Sweetman