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February 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Wedding Present: Live this weekend – and instore at Slow Boat…
So, The Wedding Present will play live for the first time ever in New Zealand this weekend coming. Good news. When I was at uni I got pretty obsessed with the Hit Parade 1 and Hit Parade 2 compilations; I was given them on tape. Also, of course, the album George Best. So I’m looking [...]Archive
April 11, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1535
Jeff Beck, Wired (1976) I’m in the shop just the other day. And the guy sees me looking at this album; a new, fresh copy. And he says “no Simon, you don’t need that. Put it down”. And I say, “of course I don’t *need* it – I already have it”. At this point I’m [...]Archive
April 4, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1546
Lee Ranaldo, Between The Times And The Tides (2012) I’m a Sonic Youth fan and so I’ve checked out a lot of what the band members have done on their own and with others outside of the group. Lee Ranaldo is great but he can be a tough listen. (That doesn’t make him any less [...]Archive
April 3, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1547
Aztec Camera, Love (1987) What the fuck is this shit? (Apparently it’s the third album by Aztec Camera). Own up, who slipped this into my collection? Was it you Jeremy Taylor? I bet it was! Sample Track: Somewhere In My Heart The Vinyl Countdown is a document of every LP I listen to, brand new [...]Archive
April 1, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1551
The Walker Brothers, No Regrets (1975) I really like Scott Walker – particularly the fact that he is a man out of time, of his own time. And I love the early Walker Brothers material too. One of my favourite songs of all time by anyone ever is Make It Easy On Yourself. Fuck yes. [...]Archive
February 10, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1627
Ahmad Jamal, Happy Moods (1960) My introduction to Ahmad Jamal was an unhappy customer returning a CD that he was convinced “didn’t play”. It played just fine. Splendidly, even. So after giving him a credit-note I bought the CD (that was Nature – The Essence Part 3) and became an Ahmad Jamal fan. The customer [...]Archive
December 1, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1734
Steve Kilbey and Ricky Maymi, Present: David Neil “The Wilderness Years” (2011) Steve Kilbey of The Church dreamed up (with Ricky Maymi of Brian Jonestown Massacre) this bonkers concept album wherein Kilbey is handed down the songs of David Neil (the name coming from David Bowie and Neil Young) and he and Maymi do their [...]Archive
November 7, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1772
Donny Hathaway, Live (1972) Well, all the information is here. I wrote about this album very recently (on Blog On The Tracks – click that link). That link will take you through every track on the album and my relationship with this album. I first heard it as a CD, the vinyl is new. Brand [...]Archive
November 7, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1773
Lou Reed, Rock And Roll Heart (1976) Never one of my favourite Lou Reed albums but I bought this on one of my trips to Auckland back in the day, back when it was the one or two trips a year to Auckland that would see me scooping up Lou Reed CDs (mostly). I liked [...]Archive
November 5, 2011 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1775
The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs (1999) I heard about the album from reading reviews, an audacious, possibly absurd project. The Magnetic Fields released a triple-CD set called 69 Love Songs and the title was no clever trick. It did what it said on the box. I bought the CDs, imported them, and worked my [...]Archive
October 14, 2011 by Simon Sweetman