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March 23, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Eric Clapton: Old Sock
Eric Clapton Old Sock Universal You almost have to see Eric Clapton’s solo career as a prolonged exercise in self-sabotage – he had it there, on a plate and slowly, surely, he drifted toward the middle of the road and though there have been some peaks – particularly live and, interestingly at the start and [...]Archive
December 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
Paul McCartney: Live Kisses
Paul McCartney Live Kisses Eagle Vision/Shock Paul McCartney’s Kisses On The Bottom album is not that bad. I know that’s not the best opening sentence of a review – but I feel it’s the truth. What is bad about it is the title. It’s ludicrously bad. Awful. Embarrassing. The latest in a long line of [...]Archive
November 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1465
Paul McCartney, Ram in Mono (2012) This was never released commercial – serviced to AM radio back in the day but made available when the album was re-released this year. I wrote about Ram here – and I felt that rather than buy a new copy of the album on vinyl (my old copy is [...]Archive
March 4, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1597
Paul McCartney & Wings, Band On The Run (1973) I still have my folks’ copy of this album – I’ve had CD reissues but the original LP still sounds fine to me. And it’s got Helen Wheels (which the CD version didn’t have). Helen Wheels might not be the greatest song but it was my [...]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 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1725
Wings, Arrow Through Me [45] (1979) I bought this for $30 – yep, $30 for one song (well, two – it’s b/w Old Siam, Sir; good tune). But I already have Back To The Egg (parent album for both tunes) on vinyl. And CD. I probably am some kind of Wings nutter. Well, I always [...]Archive
October 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1786
Lindsey Buckingham, Law & Order (1981) What a time for Lindsey Buckingham – the early 1980s. An amazing run really – following his masterpiece, Tusk (almost a solo album) with this; his first official solo album – and then there was that movie soundtrack song and another Fleetwood Mac album which contained this gem among [...]Archive
October 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1788
Wings, Wings At The Speed Of Sound (1976) I was never a big fan of this album – but I do like Wings. I was more in to the albums before this and of course the final Wings album. But I’ve been listening to this a bit lately – picked up for a fiver a [...]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