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February 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Suzanne Vega: Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, WBAI Studios, NY, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast

Suzanne Vega Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, WBAI Studios, NY, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast Arcturus One of the great joys of streaming platforms is the proliferation of authorised bootleg material and old radio shows and curios being uploaded. Here’s a radio show appearance that is 35 years old (almost to the day on […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 35th Anniversary, Album Review, Archive, Bootleg, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast, Lenny Kaye, Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, NY, Radio Show, Suzanne Vega, WBAI Studios, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 16: The Compleat Beatles

Maybe it’s because it’s hard to find and best remembered for what it represented (also: time/place) but I reckon The Compleat Beatles is the very best Beatles doco there’s ever been. It shits on The Anthology which is not terrible, but is, probably, far too much of a good thing. When The Anthology was released […]
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October 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 210 – Patti Smith, Melbourne, Australia 2017

When it was announced that Patti Smith would be playing Horses in its entirety I wanted to be there. No New Zealand show though. I found that out from Patti Smith herself. Surreal, huh? I wrote a short piece for my then daily-blogging fix, about how someone should bring Smith to NZ. I talked about […]
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April 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Patti Smith (April 16, Melbourne)

Patti Smith and her Band perform ‘Horses’ Hamer Hall, Melbourne; Vic. Sunday, April 16 It was billed as Patti Smith’s last tour of Australia and it was also a run-through of the classic album, Horses. So expectations were high. It was palpable, the theatre filling up in the half-hour ahead of show-time, a reverence, and […]
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February 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Mecca Normal: Empathy For The Evil

Mecca Normal Empathy For The Evil M’lady’s Records/Mecca Normal Canadian duo Mecca Normal have continued on over three decades releasing records that are all cut from their minimalist palette, clean – and then a bit fuzzy – guitar, best served in shards and a passionate spoken/sung punk polemic. It’s business-as-usual then, in a sense, for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, David Lester, Empathy for the Evil, Jean Smith, Lenny Kaye, Mecca Normal, Patti Smith, Vancouver ·

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October 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Classic Albums I Can’t Ever Listen To Again: #3 The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street

“Exile On Main Street spends its four sides shading the same song in as many variations as there are Rolling Stone readymades to fill them, and if on the one hand they prove the group’s eternal constancy and appeal, it’s on the other that you can leave the album and still feel vaguely unsatisfied, not quite […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Classic Albums I Can't Ever Listen To Again, Exile On Main Street, Keef, Lenny Kaye, Mick Jagger, Phantom Billstickers, The Rolling Stones ·

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September 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1865

Patti Smith, Horses (1975) Everything about this album is fantastic – and Patti Smith never did better (not with the album format anyway, her memoir Just Kids is pretty special though). I remember falling in deep with this album – and when I started buying records again (new LPs that is) this was among the […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Gloria, Horses, Jay Dee Daugherty, Just Kids, Land, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith ·

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