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November 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Won’t Get Fooled

The 50th Anniversary edition of The Who’s album, Who’s Next is a deluxe edition – featuring  17 versions of Won’t Get Fooled Again. That song plays again and again and again  and again and again and the fools gather  to listen to the next one and the one after that and they don’t see the […]
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September 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Yusuf / Cat Stevens: Tea For The Tillerman2

Yusuf / Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman2 A&M My dad once told me his theory that if you started off with not quite the greatest voice you could retain it. It was too hard, he reckoned, to forever hit high notes and if you were nasally, in particular, you could make that a gift […]
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July 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 95

The Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead (1970) I am a Grateful Dead fan but I don’t own much of their stuff on vinyl; maybe it’s just too much of an undertaking – there’s too much so I never really wanted to get started. But I’ve always wanted this and one day I must get American Beauty […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1970, 50th Anniversary, American Beauty, Easy Wind, Grateful Dead, LP, Record, The Grateful Dead, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 95, Vinyl, Workingman's Dead ·

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July 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

James Brown: Live At Home With His Bad Self

James Brown Live At Home With His Bad Self Polydor In 1969 James Brown was one of the kings, hardest working man in showbiz, of the black acts working he was the gold standard; feared and admired bandleader and a singing, dancing machine. He was pumping out civil rights anthems, redesigning R’n’B as sinewy funk, […]
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April 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Blood, Sweat & Tears: Live At Woodstock

Blood, Sweat & Tears Live At Woodstock Columbia/Legacy / Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment The absolute best thing about the Woodstock 50th Anniversary late last year was finally seeing some official releases of standalone full sets from some of the great, but lesser-hyped/covered acts. So, yeah, we have the original movie and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 50th Anniversary, Album Review, Blood Sweat & Tears, Bobby Colomby, David Clayton-Thomas, Live, Live at Woodstock, Woodstock, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Simon & Garfunkel: Live at Carnegie Hall 1969 (ep)

Simon & Garfunkel Live at Carnegie Hall 1969 (ep) Columbia/Legacy / Sony Music Entertainment It’s just been the 50th anniversary of Bridge Over Troubled Water so in a low-key marking of that – we have this new digital-only EP – featuring four songs recorded live in a venue famous for so many great live concert […]
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September 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Beatles: Abbey Road – Anniversary Super Deluxe

The Beatles Abbey Road: Anniversary Super Deluxe Capitol It’s the 50th Anniversary of the last album The Beatles recorded together – and its available in a spangling new package with a book and outtakes and straight away you might wonder if you need to purchase it again and the answer is, ultimately that you will […]
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September 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Abbey Road at 50

It’s The 50th Anniversary of Abbey Road which means it’s pretty much the 30th Anniversary of me listening to Abbey Road. It might not be the best Beatles album but it’s my favourite. And that’s always been the way. And yes, there are new mixes and outtakes – but today to celebrate we took the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 50, 50th Anniversary, Abbey Road, Abbey Road at 50, Beatles, Drummer, Drumming, Drums, George Harrison, John Lennon, Oscar, Paul McCartney, Poem, Poem: Abbey Road at 50, Ringo Starr, The Beatles ·

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November 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Jeff Beck: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

Jeff Beck Live  At The Hollywood Bowl Eagle Vision Jeff Beck celebrated 50 years as a performing artist with a run of shows at the Hollywood Bowl, guest artists, material from across his career – including a dig back to The Yardbirds, the various versions of The Jeff Beck Group, his seventies fusion, right up […]
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May 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Monkees: Good Times!

The Monkees Good Times! Rhino Records Perhaps no one expected that a new album by The Monkees in 2016 would get rave reviews, but Good Times! is deserving of a great gush. For a start it’s fun (with an exclamation mark to remind us – though it almost evokes that famous question-mark from those hippie-times, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 50th Anniversary, Adam Schlesinger, Album Review, Andy Partridge, Ben Gibbard, Death Cab For Cutie, Fountains of Wayne, Good Times, Harry Nilsson, Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Monkees, Neil Diamond, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Peter Tork, Rivers Cuomo, The Monkees, Weezer, XTC ·

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September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Grateful Dead: The Best of The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead The Best of The Grateful Dead Grateful Dead/Rhino It’s Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Season if you didn’t already know. It’s also 20 years since Jerry Garcia, spiritual centre of the band, left this world to spiral on elsewhere, down some other tie-dyed highway. The band has played its last ever shows under […]
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December 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The Skatalites (Dec 6, Wgtn)

The Skatalites Bodega Saturday, December 6 Billed as the 50th Anniversary tour – for indeed a band called The Skatalites started recording and performing music back in 1964 – this was one of those situations where you could cynically talk about the band being a cover act, a tribute version of itself; one original member […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 50th Anniversary, Bodega, December 6, Doreen Shaffer, Gig Review, Jamaica, Rocksteady, Ska, The Skatalites, Wellington ·
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