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April 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Of The Worst NZ Songs You’ve Had To Hear Way Too Often

Opshop’s song, One Day has to be a contender. Ew – this “expression of you” sentiment is cloying at best. At worst it’s hand-in-your-testicles, I-am-no-longer-a-man songwriting. To put it bluntly, it’s James Blunt – at his worst. There should be no way the members of Opshop can hold their head high after this song; it’s the negation of why they got […]
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October 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Worst Songs You Have To Hear: Ubiquitous and Awful

Music is one of the great topics of discussion that will see opinions become more forceful the longer the conversation continues. And one of the main issues a music listener or (more often) musician will have with a music reviewer is the question of why they get to decide if something is good or not. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Awful, Colin Bowles, I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart, List, The Worst Songs You Have To Hear, The Worst Songs You Have To Hear: Ubiquitous and Awful, Ubiquitous, Ubiquitous and Awful ·

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February 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Aerosmith: Awful!

Here’s something you won’t read all that often – but it’s (still) the truth: Aerosmith is really a pretty awful band. Oh, I had Rocks on cassette tape when I was a kid and just learning up on all this stuff. And Pump (the real comeback record for them; they crossed over to the younger […]
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October 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 13 – Feelers, Wellington, 1999

Backstage at a Feelers concert – it’s the musical version of waterboarding right? For the record I never went backstage. I almost never go backstage. Backstage is not my place – people seem to have a strange idea about what a reviewer does – I turn up to the show, hope they’ve remembered to leave […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1999, Awful, Backstage Pass, Breathe, feelers, Gig, James Reid, Live, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 13 – Feelers, the feelers, Tickets, TSB Bank Arena, Wellington ·

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