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May 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Apparently The 30 Best Horror Films Of All Time

The list is just a meme, shared recently when it was Friday the 13th, hence that film title is highlighted. But I looked through the list and realised quickly I had seen 29 of the 30. This, according to one million votes, was the list of the Best Horror Movies of All Time. And I […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Apparently The 30 Best Horror Films Of All Time, Blog, Films, Horror, Horror Film, Movies, The 30 Best Horror Films Of All Time, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Top 30 ·

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May 18, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

The Way It Is With Prince

When Prince died I wasn’t a mess, and I was surprised somewhat by that. It just never happened. It was a strange day, sure. And I wrote about it – the memory of (finally) seeing him (just two months earlier) still so fresh in my head – but I find it so much harder to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Bruce Hornsby, Bruce Hornsby and The Range, Japan, Live, Live Album, Prince, Prince: Tokyo Dome 1990, The Way It Is, The Way It Is With Prince, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Tokyo, Tokyo Dome ·

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May 16, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Where Have All The Kiwi Soundtracks Gone?

My fascination with film scores – listening to them, collecting them – began with a New Zealand movie. But you wouldn’t have such luck now. When I was a kid the Footrot Flats movie, A Dog’s Tail Tale, was a local blockbuster. It was at the cinemas, at a time when not every Kiwi film […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Albums, Blog, Dave Dobbyn, Film, Jane Campion, Jonathan Crayford, Kiwi, Kiwi Soundtracks, Michael Nyman, NZ, NZTECHNO Magazine, NZTECHO, Reissue, Rhian Sheehan, Score, Soundtrack, The Piano, Vinyl, Where Have All The Kiwi Soundtracks Gone? ·

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May 16, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Watching Music

The best way you can learn about music is by listening to it – sure, you can research, ask questions, read up, get opinions from others…these are all smart ways to build your knowledge, but number one is to listen widely. And far too often. Reading about music has been a big part of my […]
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May 13, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Everything Must Go: My Last Time At The Record Fair

Today I will be at A Vinyl Affair – Wellington’s Record Fair. I am pretty sure it will be my last time selling records there. Not because it’s a bad time – it’s a great time and a great place, but because it’s the end of the road for me as a record sell. Last […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Vinyl Affair, Blog, Everything Must Go, Everything Must Go: My Last Time At The Record Fair, LP, My Last Time At The Record Fair, Record, Records, Sale, Vinyl, Wellington's Record Fair ·

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May 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Bono’s Book

This is absolutely no lie: I’m pumped to read Bono’s memoir. Out in November.  Here’s a wee extract. Bono is perhaps best known of course for being the “There’s Wally!” of rock-docs. But when he’s not being memed, when he’s not promising change, when he’s not getting right in under the goat(ee) of post-punkers, he’s […]
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May 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer

In primary school, way back a hundred years ago or so, I learned about Mike Post. He was the guy that wrote the theme tune for Hill Street Blues. I loved that show. I didn’t really understand it so well, at first. But it was one of the shows I was allowed to stay up […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Composer, Composition, Film, Hill Street Blues, Jingle, LA Law, Law & Order, Magnum P.I., Mike Post, Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer, Television, The A-Team, Theme, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV ·

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May 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

On: Neil Young’s Decade

The first time I thought about what a decade meant – what it truly, actually means – is when I heard Neil Young’s compilation, called “Decade”. It’s a double tape, or CD – and a triple album. I first heard it when I was about 12 or 13, a decade on I was still hooked. […]
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May 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Rude Awakening

My mum had this uncle who was a real Jack the Lad, a real cad, he was Tony Soprano before there was ever any Sopranos, we are talking 60s, 70s, early 80s. A nightclub owner in Hastings who was more than that and up for it all. But I only really have one memory of […]
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May 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

My Pink Floyd Tapes

There I was at 12 and 13 and 14,  listening to the music of Pink Floyd on cassette tape.  Roger Waters’ first two solo albums too. But it was the Floyd stuff that meant the most to me. Had me copying out the lyrics on an old typewriter. Old school: pause/rewind/play and then  pause/rewind/play and […]
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May 9, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

I Wrote and Delivered a Monologue ONCE

I can’t act. Maybe that’s because I can’t lie. It’s also because I can’t – I just know that. I’ve never really tried. But I can only ever be myself, and that’s a hard enough gig some days. But I can stand up and read – poems, stories, that sort of thing. I’ve delivered guest […]
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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 […]
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