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May 9, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #13: Under The Cherry Moon (aka “Parade”) by Prince

The soundtrack and score for the movie Under The Cherry Moon is actually an album called Parade by star of both the film and the soundtrack, Prince. This threw me when I was a kid. Soundtracks are title after the movie. But Prince got me thinking about how the soundtrack could really live on its […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], 1980s, 1986, Blog, Film, Good, Good Score, Parade, Prince, Purple Rain, Score, Under The Cherry Moon, What A Good Score!, What A Good Score! – #13, What A Good Score! – #13: Under The Cherry Moon (aka “Parade”) by Prince ·

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February 25, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 26: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Neal Page is a high-strung marketing executive. Del Griffith is goodhearted but he’s annoying. He  sells shower curtain rings. Neal and Del spend three days together trying to make it home to their families for thanksgiving – they live in the same city, but ahead of a chance encounter, a taxi cab muck-up and then […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1980s, 1987, Blog, Comedy, Del Griffith, Film, John Candy, Movie, Movies of My Life, Movies of My Life # 26, Movies of My Life # 26: Planes, Neal Page, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Steve Martin, Trains & Automobiles ·

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July 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: No Jump

We would run through town trying to leap to touch the signs that were hanging under the shops. Saturday night, but not too late, the shops all closed for the weekend. And my brother could sometimes touch the bottom of a sign. And my cousin would sometimes get close. But I never got very close […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1980s, Hastings, No Jump, Poem, Poem No Jump ·

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November 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 18

Toots & The Maytals, Knock Out! (1981) The song Beautiful Womanwas everywhere when I was a kid. I remember it well. I didn’t particularly like it. Nor did I know who it was by. It was just everywhere. It was years – and possibly even a few more years after that – before I found […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1981, 80s, Beauiful Woman, Careless Ethiopians, Knock Out!, LP, Record, Reggae, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 18, Toots, Toots & The Maytals, Toots Hibbert, Vinyl ·

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May 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 116

Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me (1986) I first learned about Boris Gardiner due to a random library-find, back in those busy toddler-caring days of finding some salvation by digging in the library’s music section. The album, Every Nigger Is A Star, a soundtrack album to a banned movie was the one. A fantastic album. Gardiner […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1986, Eighties, Every Nigger Is A Star, Everything To Me, I Want To Wake Up With You, LP, Next To You, Record, Reggae, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 116, Vinyl ·

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April 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 130

Amazulu, Amazulu (1986) Just the other day I was remembering Aswad – I pair them with Amazulu. Both British bands fusing a type of light reggae with pop, both big in the mid-80s, both beginning with ‘A’ – a lot of surface comparisons I guess. I pair them simply because I discovered them around the […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1986, 80s, Amazulu, Aswad, LP, Montego Bay, Record, Reggae, Self-Titled, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 130, The Young Ones, Vinyl ·

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November 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Pink Floyd: The Later Years 1987 – 2019

Pink Floyd The Later Years 1987 – 2019 Legacy The post-Roger years examined, remixed – a few rarities…well, in fact this “Sampler” is just a taste of it. The actual “box-set” is still a couple of weeks away; the sequel – if you like – to The Early Years – 1965-1972 (an embarrassment of riches […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1980s, 1987 – 2019, 1990s, 2CD, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, Album Review, box-set, David Gilmour, Delicate Sound Of Thunder, Endless River, Knebworth, Live, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd: The Later Years 1987 – 2019, post-Roger, Pulse, Remix, Richard Wright, Rick Wright, Roger Waters, Sampler, The DIvision Bell, The Early Years 1965 - 1972, The Later Years, The Later Years 1987 – 2019, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 313

Van Halen, Fair Warning (1981) The first six Van Halen albums – or fuck off! (Actually, I’m gonna say the first seven…controversial perhaps, but that’s where I’m at). The best of this band is never far from my ears but I recently worked through the whole catalogue in chronological order. Yes, the wheels fall off big time toward the end […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged "Van Hagar", 1980s, 1981, Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Fair Warning, LP, Mean Street, Michael Anthony, Record, Sammy Hagar, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 313, Van Halen, Vinyl ·

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April 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Completing the 1001 Albums Challenge 

I had the 2005 version of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – I’d owned it for years and had a flip through the pages, but never really studied it. And then someone asked me how many of the albums I had heard – was it half? Was it all? I figured the […]
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February 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 335 

Hothouse Flowers, Don’t Go [Single] (1988) Hothouse Flowers – good band! Saw them live a couple of times, once still in their ascendancy and then many years on. They still sounded great. Good show. Very capable. But it was a school night. In a wee pub down the road. And no one seemed to really give a fuck – […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1988, Dire Straits, Don't Go, Eighties, Hothouse Flowers, Ireland, Irish, LP, Pop, Record, Saved, Single, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 335, Vinyl ·

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February 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 336

Don Henley, The Boys of Summer [Single] (1984) Confession time – all this “I hate the fuckin’ Eagles shit” (and I mean that by the way, always!) – but I have a soft spot for some of the solo stuff. And I include amongst that not very much by Don Henley but most certainly this song. A banger. A gem. I dunno. […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980s, 1984, A Month of Sundays, Boys of Summer, Eagles, Eighties, EP, Garden of Allah, LP, Record, Single, The Boys of Summer, The Eagles, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 336, Vinnie Colaiuta, Vinyl ·

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February 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 121: Jungle Brothers – “Done By The Forces of Nature”

I know the Jungle Brothers. Love them. But I know them only from single tracks. From their overall sound, from their inclusion in mixtapes and compilations, DJ sets too. I had never heard any of their albums but as soon as I heard this I loved it. Not just the content (the feel and flow) but the production. This album […]
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