Posts Tagged Family Ties

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June 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 537

Johnny Mathis, You Light Up My Life (1978) If it’s good enough for John Waters, it’s good enough for me. That should be my mantra or a motto – it’s neither, but I’ll see if I can get some funding and put it in place. I knew about Johnny Mathis growing up, but it wasn’t […]

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April 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Radio on the TV: My Top 10 All-Time Favourite TV Themes

The other day I was listening to Carl Stalling for the first time in a while – his bonkers-brilliant cartoon music puts you right there. You no longer need the images. The same is true of any great soundtrack composer, for film or TV. I regularly give Danny Elfman’s Music For A Darkened Theatre a spin […]

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April 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

CeeLo Green: TV on the Radio

CeeLo Green TV on the Radio Soundcloud A wee novelty project, not quite and album and a wee bit more than just an EP, but mostly this serves as a reminder that before he sold/souled out and took  the easy-easy money CeeLo Green had passion and vibrancy and was innovative and interesting and could rap […]

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April 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

TV Shows That Meant The World To Me: # 7 – Family Ties

It was appointment viewing. It was a big part of the 1980s – for me anyway. I didn’t really get the move from liberalism to conservatism that was being pushed, the comment on the death of the Woodstock ideals – I just thought it was funny, and it was on around tea-time, watching TV at […]