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April 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 25 – Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells II”
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells II, 1992 Mike Oldfield has made a few Crap Albums I Love but I’m choosing this because it catches him in a lie – previously whinging about how people expected a volume two and that’s what he would never give them…it also meant, after giving in and giving this to The […]Archive
January 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 190
Mike Oldfield, Exposed (1979) I used to be so into Mike Oldfield – and now it’s a chore. At best. Be careful though, when you say something like that – especially when it comes to guilty-pleasures…I dug out this double-live album and played it right through, as if to prove to myself that I was […]Archive
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 […]Archive
March 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Nudge: Dark Arts
The Nudge Dark Arts Keen For A Nudge LTD. This is album number two for Wellington trio The Nudge. I’ve admired this band’s musicianship – all great players individually, and collectively – without ever being hugely connected to/engaged with their music. By that I mean I never actually heard the debut album but I was […]Archive
July 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Woo: Awaawaa
Woo Awaawaa New General Catalogue/Palto Flats Renewed interest in the buried catalogue of British brothers, Mark and Clive Ives – recording under the name Woo, has seen a dig through the archives as well as the reissuing of the albums. Following on from the wonderful When The Past Arrives – a collection that’s still on […]Archive
August 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 837
Mike Oldfield, Hergest Ridge (1974) I never thought all that much of this one when I was buying up Mike Oldfield albums. I wanted to check out whatever he’d done, but this one never really stuck. Funny, because now I’d rather listen to it than Tubular Bells; totally (over) done. Strange how that works sometimes. […]Archive
May 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 76 – Soweto String Quartet, Wellington, 1997
Once I was moneybags! Once. It probably ended on this night actually – I remember shouting two friends to this gig, on a whim really. I had one of the albums by the Soweto String Quartet and I was into it enough to want to see the show – it was also at a time […]Archive
January 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jonathan Snipes & William Hutson: Room 237 [OST]
Jonathan Snipes & William Hutson Room 237 [OST] Death Waltz Recordings The documentary film Room 237 was wonderful – absurd, of course, but so well put together. And such a wonderful mood, tapping into the spirit of Kubrick (you get the feeling he woulda chuckled) – and a big part, instantly, of framing that mood, […]Archive
October 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1017
V/A, The Exorcist [OST] (1974) People think of Tubular Bells when they think of The Exorcist (music-wise, anyway). But to me what makes that work – and I’d rather listen to the bits of Tubular Bells that dot in and around the rest of the Exorcist soundtrack than I would listen to it as a […]Archive
October 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Siinai: Supermarket
Siinai Supermarket Splendour Here’s something – a “concept album” about the supermarket experience, it’s called Supermarket and it’s wordless, a subversive mix of post-rock (and post-ambient for that matter) grooves; dance music for the head. We open with a touch of Pink Floyd’s circular-sounding motifs across En-trance and Shopping Trance – you can certainly see […]Archive
July 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman