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April 10, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1538
J.J. Cale, Shades (1981) I’ve only recently discovered that I own this album. So beyond knowing that I’ve had it for a while I have no idea actually how long I’ve owned this. I do like J.J. Cale – but I forget about that these days. He’s probably pretty easy to forget about; he’s probably [...]Archive
April 6, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1544
Dire Straits, Money For Nothing (1988) Now here’s an example of where the vinyl is not as good as the CD – for space issues (presumably) you lose the version of Telegraph Road, a highlight of this compilation. But this record is also an example of the compilation-attempt not being as good as the original [...]Archive
February 8, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1632
Mark Knopfler, Cal [OST] (1984) What a prolific time it was in the mid-1980s for Mark Knopfler – he was running a band that became too huge and he was offering his guitar services and production/songwriting skills all over the place. Plus he was making soundtracks to idiosyncratic films; soundtracks that were purchased by people [...]Archive
January 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1688
Dire Straits, On Every Street (1991) I saw Dire Straits on the tour for this album – the band’s last world tour. And man I loved it; I loved Dire Straits at that point in my life; one of my favourite bands. And all things Mark Knopfler was involved in/with. I had the soundtracks, the [...]Archive
November 11, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1764
Dire Straits, Dire Straits (1978) I became obsessed with the early Dire Straits albums when a chance trip to Auckland coincided with the band’s 1991 show. Fantastic. At that point I was a massive Dire Straits fan – in fact a massive Mark Knopfler fan; I collected all of his soundtracks and side-projects and I’ve [...]Archive
October 15, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1806
Mark Knopfler, The Princess Bride [OST] (1987) Funny, I love all the Mark Knopfler soundtrack work – and in some cases (Cal) it has made me hunt out the film just because of the music; because of a connection to the music – a need then to see how that music was actually intended; to [...]Archive
June 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman