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October 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

What’s The Saddest Song You Love?

I’m looking for suggestions for songs that actually make you sad, examples of songs you love, but find rather heart-breaking, almost too hard to hear, but you’re drawn to them. They are, in fact, songs by artists you like. I’m not looking for jokes about the song that makes you saddest being something by Manic […]

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November 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lambchop: TRIP

Lambchop TRIP Merge Records I love Lambchop so much that even the thought of Kurt Wagner trying to croon via a vocoder wasn’t going to put me off…until they went to that well once too often (ie: twice) and I just haven’t really been able to care about the last few Lamchop albums – haven’t […]

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March 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Songs Sung Blue: Everybody Knows One…

People love Johnny Cash’s version of the Nine Inch Nails song, Hurt because of the timing; that video, his wife had died – then Johnny died shortly after. Complications resulting from a broken heart. It’s a good song, a good version. But the original is better. I know I’m not alone in thinking that – […]

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July 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 4 – David Kilgour

It was only recently, a couple of years ago, that I stumbled onto the best way to describe David Kilgour: his approach, his playing, his position. I considered him a nonchalant phenomenon. In fact I’d borrowed the term – overheard it on a Paul Kelly song many years earlier. But it seemed to sum up […]

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July 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lambchop: Mr. M

Lambchop Mr. M City Slang From Nashville, and that’s almost as country as they get, Lambchop has been exploring a widescreen, windswept and interesting version of dramatic pop songwriting expanding the confines of indie music for a couple of decades now and Mr. M is a return to the magic of Nixon and Is A […]