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May 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 29 – Dunedin 

A big week for Dunedin – for various reasons happy and sad. Shayne Carter’s excellent memoir is on the shelves. The Martin Phillipps and The Chills doco is out and about and worth seeing – but sadly it’s R.I.P Malcolm Black. So some tribute posts to some of my favourite Dunedin songs – or at least songs from artists connected to that city. 
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 5, A.P.S., Chris Knox, David Kilgour, Dimmer, Dunedin, Five, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday:  29 – Dunedin, Five Songs For Friday: 29, For Today, Friday, Liberal Backlash Angst, Malcolm Black, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Oncoming Day, Shayne Carter, Straitjacket Fits, The Chills, The Clean, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, You Forget ·

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August 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

My Life In Seven Songs

Song 1: Once In A Lifetime, Talking Heads The drums push forward, the bass pulls back and this isn’t really a song, it’s a bunch of ideas falling over themselves, cascading, oscillating, evading melody in favour of finding a groove. The words are catchphrases, evangelical, delightful. A tune existing in its own space, in its […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 7, Aphex Twin, Guns n Roses, Lenny Kravitz, My Life, My Life In Seven Songs, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Seven, Seven Songs, Talking Heads, The Cure, The Roots ·

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April 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1523

Dexys Midnight Runners, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980) My introduction to the band was seeing them in The Young Ones – turned me on to some cool bands, that. And then of course I knew Come On Eileen because it was everywhere. It’s a good song, it’s just been played out, over-played, done. […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Burn It Down, Come On Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners, Geno, LP, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, The Young Ones, Vinyl ·

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October 3, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1825

Netherworld Dancing Toys, Painted Years (1985) It’s funny to me that For Today seems to have become a punching bag of sorts; I still think of it as how I first heard it – an inventive, fun and interesting song to be hearing on NZ radio and TV. An exciting tune on the charts. But […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged For Today, Hawke's Bay, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Painted Years, Vinyl ·

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