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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young: The Times EP

Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Archives, Demo, EP, Home Recording, Lockdown, Neil Young, Neil Young: The Times EP, Pandemic, Reprise / Amazon Music, The Times EP, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Murry Wilson & Snow: The Break Away EP

Murry Wilson & Snow The Break Away EP Omnivore Recordings Murry Wilson shares the prize with Joe Jackson (father of the Jackson 5, not the super singer/songwriter) as one of the world’s worst Professional Fathers – these manager/Svengali types that invented the cliché of channeling their own rage through their sons (and daughters) and being […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Archive, Beach Boys, Break Away, Demo, EP, Murry Wilson, Murry Wilson & Snow, Snow, The Beach Boys, The Break Away EP, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The J.Bs: More Mess On My Mind (ep)

The J.Bs More Mess On My Mind (ep) Now Again These ‘from the vaults’-styled reissues really are turning out some classic finds. Last year there was two ‘found’ John Coltrane albums (to lose just one would be careless…right?) And there were other jazz gems – near-mythic stories of albums recorded and then shelved. Finally we […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged "Catfish" Collins, Album Review, Bootsy Collins, Demo, James Brown, Mess On My Mind (ep), Now Again, Reissue, The J.Bs, The J.Bs: More Mess On My Mind, The J.Bs: More Mess On My Mind (ep), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 261   

Prince, Originals (2019) So far, I have to say, they’ve hit it out of the park with the official posthumous Prince releases. I previewed this one a while back (unofficially)  My prediction was the Kenny Rogers song would be ‘discovered’ as a lost-classic, a gem, and I’ve no way of knowing if that’s the case, it was just a feeling I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2019, 2LP, Covers, Demo, demos, Kenny Rogers, LP, Manic Monday, Originals, Prince, Record, Songwriting, The Vinyl Countdown # 261, Vinyl, You're My Love ·

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June 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 30 – Rolling Thunder Reviewed! 

Bob Dylan is never far from my mind, my heart, my stereo – if he’s not on the turntable, he’s in my thoughts in some way or another, often informing the music that I’ve chosen to listen to. It’s that deep. He is one of the great musical forces for me – and surely the most […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 5, Bob, Bob Dylan, Bootleg, Demo, Doco, Dylan, Easy And Slow, Five, Five Songs, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday # 30, Five Songs For Friday:  30 – Rolling Thunder Reviewed!, Friday, Hard Rain, Idiot Wind, Live, Martin Scorcese, Masterpieces, Netflix, Rehearsal, Rolling Thunder, Rolling Thunder Reviewed!, Rolling Thunder Revue, Tangled Up In Blue, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The Rolling Thunder Revue, TV Special, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Music Feature: Prince’s Side-Projects, Collaborations and Songs He Wrote For Other People

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Collaborations and Songs He Wrote For Other People, Covers, Demo, Feature, Jesse Mulligan, Music, Originals, Prince, Protege, Radio New Zealand, RNZ, RNZ Music Feature, RNZ Music Feature: Prince's Side-Projects, Sheila E., Side-Project, The Family, The Time, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 311

Kenny Rogers, They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To (1986) The best thing about being given far too many Kenny Rogers albums (no shame in a greatest hits or two – and I even saw him live a quarter-century ago or so and it was okay) is finding the hidden gems, like the song […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, Apollonia, Apollonia 6, Demo, Duet, Joey Coco, Kenny Rogers, LP, Prince, Purple Rain, Record, Sheila E., The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 311, They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, Vanity, Vanity 6, Vinyl, You're My Love ·

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December 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Cody ChesnuTT’s Bizarre and Brilliant Headphone Masterpiece: A Weird But Classic Debut (Double) Album

Released in 2002 it was Cody ChesnuTT’s debut – arriving, seemingly, out of nowhere, the album is a Big Serve: 36 tracks, two discs, everything from Brother With An Ego which is less than 15 seconds long – through to 6 Seconds which lasts for around four and a half minutes. Cody ChesnuTT became known […]
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May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Aphex Twin: MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep)

Aphex Twin MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep) Warp Records Last year Aphex Twin re-emerged. We had the very worthwhile Syro album, the eventual mainstream release of his Caustic Window project, then there was the ep, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (to my ears some of the very best Aphex work ever – and who […]
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