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February 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #8: Saturday Night Fever by Various Artists

The soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Fever is one of the greatest-selling soundtrack albums of all time! It also – as if this is a surprise, given the number of people who have bought it over the years – happens to be very good. It is one of those moment-capturing slices of pop-culture. Saturday Night […]
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August 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Dee Gees / Foo Fighters: Hail Satin / Live

Dee Gees / Foo Fighters Hail Satin / Live Roswell Records, Inc., under exclusive license to RCA Records This is how the Foo Fighters chose to commemorate 25 years of existence. Tongue in cheek, but also painfully earnest covers of disco-era Bee Gees. They called themselves the Dee Gees which is probably hilarious. They called […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bee Gees, Covers, Dave Grohl, Dee Gees / Foo Fighters, Dee Gees / Foo Fighters: Hail Satin / Live, disco, Hail Satin, Hail Satin / Live, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Live, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The Bee Gees – How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Film

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Director: Frank Marshall Diamond Docs / White Horse Pictures / HBO Documentary Films / HBO Max Oh, I love the Bee Gees! Wasn’t always the case. As a kid I feel like I was trained to laugh at them – via Kenny Everett and later […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Andy Gibb, Band, Barbra Streisand, Barry Gibb, Bee Gees, disco, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Review, HBO, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, How Deep Is Your Love, Maurice Gibb, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Pop, Robin Gibb, Saturday Night Fever, Songwriters, Songwriting, The Bee Gees, The Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Film, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 8

Bee Gees, Night Fever [Single] (1978) Maybe this has always been one of my favourite Bee Gees songs? Quite likely. And among the first I would have heard and though I’ve gone back to their pre-disco pop and I like almost everything up to Saturday Night Fever – I still do have love for that […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1978, Bee Gees, disco, Down The Road, EP, Gibb, LP, Night Fever, Saturday Night Fever, Single, Soundtrack, The Bee Gees, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 8, Vinyl ·

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November 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 16

The Staple Singers, Turning Point (1984) I love checking out the “out of place” albums by a heritage act – sixties and seventies groups that ‘failed’ in the 1980s…that sort of thing. The Staple Singers were making gospel gems and spirituals through the late 1950s and early 1960s and then political funk and soul in […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1984, 80s, Cover, disco, LP, Record, Slippery People, Talking Heads, The Staple Singers, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 16, This Is Our Night, Turning Point, Vinyl ·

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November 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 21

Village People, Macho Man[Single] (1978) I guess I’m neither a Village People fan nor a non-fan. They’re just the band you know – because some of their songs were everywhere for a while and occasionally continue to be in many places. Certainly the case with this song. And the gym one with the letters. We […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1978, A-side, Album, B-side, disco, EP, I Ain't Got Nobody, Just A Gigolo, Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody, Macho Man, Record, Single, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 21, Village People, Vinyl, YMCA ·

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October 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 43

Donna Summer, On The Radio: Greatest Hits – Volume I & II (1979) Donna Summer was one of the queens of 1970s radio – her disco-fied pop, R’n’B and funk was everywhere for me growing up in the early 1980s, on radio and via the records my folks had. And I have no idea how […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, disco, Donna Summer, Greatest Hits, Hot Stuff, I Feel Love, LP, On The Radio, On The Radio: Greatest Hits - Volume I & II, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 43, Vinyl, Volume I, Volume II ·

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February 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Chaka Khan: Hello Happiness

Chaka Khan Hello Happiness Island Well, first up, it’s just excellent to hear from Chaka Khan again – her voice is one of the great things to have straddled funk, soul, gospel, blues, jazz, pop, rock and of course ultimately disco. She’s a legendary force. And despite live appearances, sometimes with reports that she can […]
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February 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 338

Lionel Hampton, Saturday Night Jazz Fever (1978) I took a punt on Lionel Hampton back in the day; bought a double CD comp from a closing down sale for $5-10 and loved it. I didn’t know what I was getting – beyond the fact that it was jazz. Clearly jazz. Then I looked him pup, found out about […]
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August 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 78: Chic – “Risqué”

Well there’s already been a Chic album and a Sister Sledge album in fairly quick succession – and now another Chic album. Now I ain’t complainin’ – I love the band. But I just had never thought to listen to the original albums – I know the big singles, I know compilations, I know samples, I […]
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July 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 74: Chic – “C’est Chic”

I love Chic. I love Nile Rodgers. And yet I had never heard C’est Chic until just recently. I have listened to live albums and watched the recent DVDs and then way ahead of that I’ve had compilations and I regularly jam the key tracks, the big singles, the obvious stuff…but it’s weird that I’ve […]
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January 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 445

Bee Gees, Nights on Broadway [Single] (1975) I already own the Main Course album – and I love it, one of my favourites by the Bee Gees. But I had to get this too – because Nights on Broadway is my favourite Bee Gees song. Well, Top 3 anyway. I guess I knew it all […]
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