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January 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 34 – 2020 – 1st Edition

It’s a new year – welcome, belatedly to 2020. You’ve arrived already of course, but here now is the first edition of the staggeringly inconsistent Five Songs For Friday for the new year. No theme. Just songs that are on my mind at the start of this year. Or on my turntable. Or in my […]
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November 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday:  33 – 5 O’Clock Worlds

I’m a big fan of the 5pm Friday music; the perfect album – or playlist – something you put on for the walk home for work, maybe to soundtrack the first pour or even let you drift off for a wee quick snore; some music to celebrate the end of the working week. As the […]
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August 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 32 – The Tao of Neil 

I guess Neil Young’s been on my mind a lot this week – I rediscovered the Weld album which took me to writing about how I first discovered. And before that I enjoyed the Live Rust tribute concert. Sitting there, hearing so many of those great songs got me to thinking about how so often there’s a line – just a […]
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August 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 31 – Sustained Creepy Moods…

I like movie soundtracks – score. I like ambient music. I like heavy metal. I particularly love when two or three of those things can come together to create a sinister, creeping – creepy – mood. A sustained sinister creeping – creepy – mood, even. So I wanted to explore that today via five favourites. Five Songs For Friday has […]
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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 […]
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May 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 29 – Dunedin 

A big week for Dunedin – for various reasons happy and sad. Shayne Carter’s excellent memoir is on the shelves. The Martin Phillipps and The Chills doco is out and about and worth seeing – but sadly it’s R.I.P Malcolm Black. So some tribute posts to some of my favourite Dunedin songs – or at least songs from artists connected to that city. 
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May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 28 – In The Evening

It was back at Five Songs For Friday # 13 when I phoned up late in the day and decided to offer an evening theme. And so here we are again…this time I’ve gone for an actual “In The Evening” thing by choosing songs that all have the word evening in the title, that are about the evening – and things that […]
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March 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 27 – The Return of ‘Five Songs For Friday’

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these – far too long. Blame work commitments. I’ve been worried about getting a podcast up some part of Thursday or Friday and then work – the pesky day-job kind – has been on the horizon, looming, with early starts every Saturday for most of the last year. […]
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August 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 26 – Chet Baker

I can’t remember when I first heard Chet Baker but I’ve been a fan for a while. A long time. Feels like he’s just been there forever. My whole life. But I would have been a teenager before I first heard him knowingly. And then it was all in. And it’s still the way. Currently […]
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February 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 24 – Songs From Brand New (and Upcoming) Albums

It’s a new music Friday, lots of new-new-new things to check out – so here’s a wee sample of some of the key tracks/key artists. Or something like that… Actually, the only album here that is still “upcoming” is the first, all the other tracks here are from band new albums – out today. You’ll […]
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February 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 23 – 2018’s First Batch of Brand New Music

I’m still catching up with music from 2016 and 2017, in fact I’m still finding great stuff from the 1970s and the 1950s… So how about all the new stuff from 2018 already? We’re a month in to the new year and some terrific things have made it out into the world of music already. […]
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January 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 22 – Giving The Drummer Some…

Drum Solos! – wait, come back! You don’t often hear people crying out for more drum solos, or any drum solos. Even a lot of drummers hate drum solos. But sometimes you see and hear something special. And sometimes the drum solo – or an extended break – is, I dunno, “musical”, and exciting. Well, […]
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