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December 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: I’ll Be Your Mirror – A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico
Various Artists: I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico Verve It’s been a wee while since I’ve found a great Various Artists tribute album – one that doesn’t feel try-hard, one that doesn’t run out of steam. So I was pleasantly surprise by this, feeling – on paper – it […]Archive
January 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Iggy Pop: ‘Til Wrong Feels Right – Lyrics and More
‘Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More Iggy Pop Clarkson Potter This new volume of Iggy Pop’s lyrics updates the previous collection (which went up to 1999, documenting the first 30 years of his work). Here now we go up to his most recent album – two further decades.Archive
September 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: September 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… […]Archive
September 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Iggy Pop: Free
Iggy Pop Free Loma Vista Iggy Pop’s catalogue is a strange mess – a couple of very fine albums, plenty of rewards to dig and gather across the records that followed and some filler-fodder too. There hasn’t been the late-great comeback that many other heritage acts have offered. But there hasn’t needed to be. The […]Archive
August 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Underworld & Iggy Pop: Teatime Dub Encounters
Underworld & Iggy Pop Teatime Dub Encounters Caroline At first you might think of The Orb and David Gilmour collaborating, and wonder if this is just another one of those odd-but-okay scenarios – it doesn’t take too long to put it together though, the original Trainspotting soundtrack was a classic, plenty of great music – […]Archive
April 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Gimme Danger: DVD
Gimme Danger: The Story of The Stooges Director: Jim Jarmusch Dogwoof I wonder if people worry about whether they’re letting the side down by not liking a key book or doco relating to an artist they love. I figure fans want to lap up anything related to the fan-experience. But boring-is-boring. I loathed the Keith […]Archive
May 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression
Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Loma Vista Much was made of this “dream pairing” of leather-torso and that tall streak of desert rock – but frankly they’re bored and/or boring for the most part across Post Pop Depression. An album that is the C- to Blackstar’s A+. Somewhere along the way, Iggy – far more […]Archive
April 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 906
Iggy Pop, Blah Blah Blah (1986) I think this is about the only Iggy Pop album I never owned – until now, obviously. I was into this Iggy though, the Iggy of the 80s. That’s how I first knew him. The Brick By Brick album and then back from there. The singles from the 1980s…and […]Archive
August 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1058
V/A, Slaves of New York [OST] (1989) I bought this in a closing-down sale – 10c. I have never seen the film – but the trailer both makes me want to see it and puts me off. I have no idea why I bought this – could be any number of reasons (beyond the 10 […]Archive
July 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1078
V/A, Repo Man [OST] (1984) The film was a revelation – but what really spoke to me the first time I saw this flick was the movie’s soundtrack. It was the real introduction to a lot of the names of bands my cousin had told me about. And to some other names I’d only read […]Archive
May 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman