Overlooked Gems with Steve Swift
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Paul Weller Brilliance: Uh Huh Oh Yeh
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Wendy And Lisa Enjoy The Fruit…
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Steve Swift’s Undiscovered Gems : Strut
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Steve Swift’s Undiscovered Gems: C$sh by Nasty Rox Inc
You can call them groundbreaking. You can call them instigators. But Nasty Rox Inc just clicked. And rocked. Oh, how they rocked. Who Were They? Well, people tended to think Nasty Rox Inc were Dave Dorrell’s band. And this was in 1988 so MARRS were a thing, in 1987 their ‘Pump Up The Volume‘ was one of the first club created tracks to smash the charts. But he was a sort of overlooker, a consultant if you like. This was a proper band, not a project, but people could be mistaken for thinking that, they came and went, leaving a brightly coloured, tough but groovy album behind. If you look…
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Paul’s Boutique: A Steve Swift Overlooked Gem
No Paul’s Boutique, no ‘Sabotage‘. In fact no Ill Communication. I’ll see your Check Your Head and raise you again with this fabulous, and rather overlooked. It’s odd. It’s a mess. It’s a sales disaster. That’s a general feeling about Paul’s Boutique. The first two are gloriously correct. The last? Here’s what I think… Licensed To Ill Leaves A Long Shadow It was a phenomenon, that debut, snotty, rocky, and childish. I had the album and couldn’t quite work out why I liked it. I hated the mock rock of ‘No Sleep Till Brooklyn‘, but enjoyed the Bonham beat of ‘Rhymin’ & Stealin‘ and simplicity of ‘Hold It Now, Hit…
