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August 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 32 – The Tao of Neil 

I guess Neil Young’s been on my mind a lot this week – I rediscovered the Weld album which took me to writing about how I first discovered. And before that I enjoyed the Live Rust tribute concert. Sitting there, hearing so many of those great songs got me to thinking about how so often there’s a line – just a […]
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March 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young + Promise of The Real: The Visitor

Neil Young + Promise of The Real The Visitor Reprise Neil Young’s 2010s output is going to rival his 1980s for being wilful, stubborn, stylistically diverse – and “non-representative”. The gap is widening between the truly great Neil Young albums too. But you think he gives a fuck? Or ever has for that matter? Right […]
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December 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ballad of The Finn Brothers: A Musical Life Between Them

Neil and Tim Finn. The Finn Brothers. We think of them as a pair. We group them together even when they are off making music independently. They have made two albums together under the family surname. Prior to that they have worked together in two bands, Tim appeared on just the one Crowded House album […]
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December 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 462

Neil Young, Hitchhiker (2017) Neil Young – brilliantly annoying, annoyingly brilliant…frustrating at times. Other times there’s nothing better. Sometimes the frustrating stuff is still brilliant, wonderful, weird – sublime. Other times you just don’t know why he’s doing what he’s doing. If he makes a dud album there’s no real concern, another will be along […]
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December 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 142 The Spines – 2016

1981 – “It was a terrible song but The right name for this band” 2016 – This being our thirty-fifth anniversary I was hoping to get to play a lot of gigs and things always shape up differently than you had planned… In the summer we played at a few carnivals and parks. There was […]
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November 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Great Kiwi Albums You Must Revisit: # 13 Finn

I’ve always loved the Finn album, the first collaborative pairing of Neil and Tim Finn; just the brothers (Dave Dobbyn plays bass on one song on the album, beyond that all the instrumental duties are handled by Neil and Tim). The album was released in 1995 – I can remember being excited about its release, […]
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October 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heroes Live: #2 – Neil Young

Earlier this year I reviewed the brand new Neil Young album another live record from him, another weird one from Uncle Neil. Only Neil Young could give up smoking marijuana and then release a live album where he replaced the audience applause with animal noises. When I was writing that review I thought that Neil […]
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April 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 105 Tora Tora Tora 2016

It started badly. It was raining as we drove over there on Good Friday and I had forgotten to buy beer the night before, the tent I’d brought turned out to have no poles or pegs and I didn’t have my shades. The rain cleared as we put up the rest of the Spines camp […]
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April 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

TV Shows That Meant The World To Me: #8 – The Young Ones

Without a doubt one of the most profound pop-culture influences in my life is The Young Ones. I watched it when I was a young one, far too young to actually get all of the jokes. But I laughed along with the adults at any rate. We recorded them onto tapes every week, setting the […]
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January 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 969

Neil’s Heavy Concept Album (1984) There are times where my record-buying is entirely nostalgia-based. I see something – on vinyl! – that I knew in a former life. I knew it perhaps as a CD or more likely a tape. Sometimes I knew it when it was part of my mum and dad’s record collection. […]
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October 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1007

Neil Diamond, Diamonds (1974) Every record collection should have at least one Neil Diamond hits compilation – mine has at least two. This being the latest – and though this sounds like I’m trying to run, I didn’t choose this, I inherited it. I would say I probably didn’t need this double comp, but then […]
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February 8, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1631

Leonard Cohen, Songs Of Leonard Cohen (1967) This might be my favourite $1 record. I’d heard the album on cassette tape and CD before finding the LP. A bargain at twice the price. I’ve thought, fairly regularly, of treating myself to a new copy of this album – I’ve also thought of buying a sealed […]
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