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September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Horror Movie Scores: Some Favourites

On a big horror kick right now. I feel like I have been on a big horror movie kick since I was 13. That’s when I conquered any fear of being frightened by overdosing on horror films. The good, the bad, the ugly. Now I’m catching up on some classics I haven’t seen – or […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dawn of the Dead, Exorcist, Fantomas, Film, Films, Freddy Krueger, Friday The 13th, George Romero, Halloween, Harry Manfredini, Hellraiser, Horror, Horror Movie, Horror Movie Scores, Horror Movie Scores: Some Favourites, It, Jaws, John Carpenter, Mike Oldfield, Movies, Music, Omen, Psycho, Score, Some Favourites, Soundtrack, Stephen King, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Director's Cut, They Live, Tubular Bells, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 106

Mike Oldfield, Platinum (1979) I was so into Mike Oldfield – and to think it all came from an album I can no longer listen to. But when you’re young and just learning about things with music you can be dazzled by something that’s actually not really even ever there. Oldfield’s multi-instrumental prowess and arranging […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, LP, Mike Oldfield, Platinum, Punkadiddle, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 106, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Tubular Bells II”, 1992, Amarok, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Exorcist, Instrumental, Mike Oldfield, Oldfield, Ommadawn, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 25, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 25 – Mike Oldfield, The Complete Mike Oldfield, The Killing Fields, Tubular Bells, Tubular Bells 2, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, 2LP, Double, Exposed, Guilty, Guilty Pleasure, Live, LP, Mike Oldfield, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 190, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged #31, A Warm Place, Assault on Precinct 13, Burzum, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: 31, Five Songs For Friday: 31 – Sustained Creepy Moods..., Friday, Gummo, Heavy Metal, Horror, John Carpenter, Mike Oldfield, Movies, Natural Born Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitat, Score, Soundtrack, Sustained Creepy Moods..., Theme, Trent Reznor, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bring Me Your Love I, Bring Me Your Love II, Bring Me Your Love III, Dark Arts, Iraia Whakamoe, James Coyle, Kiwi, Lotus, Mike Oldfield, NZ, Pink Floyd, Prog, Psychedelic, Robert Wyatt, Ryan Prebble, Santana, The Balance Change, The Nudge, The Nudge: Dark Arts, Vinyl, Wellington ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1975-1982, Album Review, Awaawaa, British, Clive Ives, England, Faust, Mark Ives, Mike Oldfield, New General Catalogue, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Previously Unreleased, When The Past Arrives, Woo ·

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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. […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1974, LP, Mike Oldfield, Part One, Part Two, Record, The Vinyl Countdown # 837, Tubular Bells, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1997, Gig, Live, MFC, Mike Oldfield, Soweto String Quartet, Stubs: # 76 – Soweto String Quartet, Student Loan, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Bear McCreary, Doco, Documentary, Film, Goblin, Horror, Jonathan Snipes, Jonathan Snipes & William Hutson, Mike Oldfield, Room 237, Soundtrack, Stanley Kubrick, William Hutson ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1974, Iraq, Jack Nitzsche, LP, Mike Oldfield, Soundtrack, The Exorcist, Tubular Bells, V/A, Various, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, Siinai, Supermarket ·
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