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March 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
OST: A Good Score Is One of The First Things I’ll Always Notice About A Film
The music is almost always the first thing I notice about a film. It wasn’t always this way, and I can’t quite remember when it changed – obviously there are so many iconic themes we instantly think of from Star Wars and Jaws to ET and anything by Ennio Morricone, everything Quentin Tarantino chooses – […]Archive
February 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Joshua Moshier: The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
Joshua Moshier The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Lakeshore Records I’m really enjoying the TV series The Shrink Next Door which tells the stranger-than-fiction true tale of a psychiatrist who manipulates his patient into friendship and hoodwinks him out of dollars and pads his own status. Everything about it is enjoyable – […]Archive
February 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Super-Spreadin’ The News…
It was a couple of weeks ago and it was late on a Friday night, I dashed out a new poem. I write a poem most days. Sometimes I write two or three. You’ll know from reading here, if you check in with any regularity that I pretty much post something every day – okay, […]Archive
February 25, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
King Woman: Celestial Blues
King Woman Celestial Blues Relapse Kristina Esfandiari seems to leap at music in a way similar to Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes, Bosnian Rainbows). Also, in a similar fashion, Esfandiari has made music under many monikers (Miserable, NGHTCRWLR and Dalmatian) skipping across genres (hip-hop to metal) but always infusing them with punk’s energy and hardcore’s […]Archive
February 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Time Casts Its Spell: When Silver Springs Became The Secret Weapon It Had Always Threatened To Be
Stevie Nicks is told that her song Silver Springs won’t make the cut. The band is making Rumours which – we all know now – does pretty well. She leaves it in the vault for 20 years, takes it out, dusts it off, decides it’s time to bring it to life. She runs it by […]Archive
February 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
The Redemption of Rocket Queen
I loved Appetite for Destruction, right from first listen, such a visceral thrill. It was naughty as…well, naughty-as-fuck. We were probably too young to be listening to it but the unwritten, unspoken agreement seemed to be that if we didn’t copy the language – at least at home, anyway – it would be allowed. You […]Archive
February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Finding Delmore: Only In Dreams
Delmore Schwartz was an American poet, short story writer and scholar. His most famous story is In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. It was first published in 1937 and became the title for Schwartz’ first book. That was published a year later, he was 25. The story has been widely anthologised and is a classic piece of […]Archive
February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
“Sounds Good” Turns 1: My Substack Newsletter Has Been Going For One Year
“Sounds Good!” on Substack is one. A year of writing and sending out newsletters. If you’re signed up and following you might remember that as recently as two weeks ago I shared all the Friday playlists in one go – 50 weeks of A Little Something For The Weekend playlists. I called that that anniversary […]Archive
February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Freddy Krueger Is White Male Privilege
With Freddy Krueger, it was the finger knives that hooked us, if you’ll pardon that obvious pun. We were so into Freddy – a horror ghoul with no heart and soul of his own – he’d rip open that garish red and green jersey to show you the swirling souls he stole. Quite how they […]Archive
February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Horrorfying: Overdosing On Horror Films To Cure The Frights
When I was a kid a rather stupid movie had a deep impact on me. It’s called Alligator. It’s from about 1980 – and I reckon we saw it a couple of years after that, we didn’t have a VCR any time early, it was always a trip across town to my auntie’s house and […]Archive
February 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman