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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Tribute

nearly ended up in a Nirvana covers band, dodged a bullet
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Covers Band, dodged a bullet, Kurt Cobain, nearly ended up in a Nirvana covers band, Nirvana, Poem, Poem: Tribute, Tribute ·

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April 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Tori Amos: Broken Silence (Live 1992)

Tori Amos Broken Silence (Live 1992) Shockwaves Another day another bootlegged radio broadcast – this one from Toronto; this one from Tori Amos around the time of the release of her debut album. What a debut that was – and is! And here we have Tori showcasing what is now her known style as live […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bootleg, Broken Silence, Broken Silence (Live 1992), Covers, Led Zeppelin, Little Earthquakes, Live, Live 1992, Nirvana, Radio Broadcast, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Thank You, Tori Amos, Tori Amos: Broken Silence (Live 1992), Toronto, Whole Lotta Love, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 37: The Youngbloods – “Elephant Mountain”

Reading this book is a reminder of just how much music is out there that you forget about, or forget to check out further. First view of the name The Youngbloods and I’m scratching my head, thinking I’ve never even heard of them. But of course I have… Their 1967 single Get Together isn’t quite […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged # 37, 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums Challenge, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1960s, 1969, Darkness Darkness, Elephant Mountain, Forrest Gump, Get Together, Nirvana, Sixties, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 37, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 37: The Youngbloods – “Elephant Mountain”, The Youngbloods, The Youngbloods – “Elephant Mountain”, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Virginia Hanlon Grohl: From Cradle To Stage

From Cradle to Stage: Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars Virginia Hanlon Grohl Seal Press Nepotism meets meta-prank – or something? – as Dave Grohl’s mother rolls out a book just in time for Mother’s Day…
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, From Cradle To Stage, From Cradle to Stage: Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars, Interviews, Mom, Mother's Day, Mothers, Mum, Mums, Nirvana, Virginia Hanlon Grohl: From Cradle To Stage ·

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January 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Plugging Back In To Nirvana: Revisiting MTV Unplugged In New York

So I just watched Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York on DVD. This is a classic concert – an important concert to me. I’m not sure how great it is as I have a rather biased view towards Nirvana. I’m not their biggest fan. I think Kurt Cobain was often a bit of a twit. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bleach, Dave Grohl, DVD, In Utero, Incesticide, Kurt, Kurt Cobain, Meat Puppets, MTV, MTV Unplugged, MTV Unplugged In New York, Nevermind, New York, Nirvana, Plugging Back In To Nirvana, Plugging Back In To Nirvana: Revisiting MTV Unplugged In New York, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Songwriter, Unplugged, Vinyl ·

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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Dope Smoker: Marijuana

Dope Smoker Marijauana (Independent/Bandcamp) Just when you thought the album/track Dopesmoker by Sleep was as overt as “Stoner Rock” got, along comes the Welsh band Dope Smoker – that seminal track/album was surely, well, a guiding light – and here’s their fifth album; the title now as blatant as can be, and if you’re somehow […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Alice In Chains, Bandcamp, Black Sabbath, Bleach, Crack The Skye, Dope Smoker, Dopesmoker, Marijuana, Mastodon, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Post-Rock, Rock, Sabbath, Sleep, Sludge Metal, Smashing Pumpkins, Stoner, Stoner-Rock, Swervedriver, Wales, Welch ·

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March 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck – The Home Recordings

Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings Ume The barrel has been scraped. Here, masquerading as “the soundtrack” to a grave-robbing, bones-picking, totally unnecessary documentary of the same name, we have Kurt Cobain’s “home recordings”. We’re meant to process them as if seeing behind the machine, hearing early versions of Nirvana songs, Beatles covers […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, demos, Documentary, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck - The Home Recordings, Montage of Heck, Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, Nirvana, Soundtrack, The Home Recordings ·

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October 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened

Something different today, before regular Radio Nowhere service finally resumes… People travel for a lot of fairly obvious reasons – to eat, drink, see the sights, visit friends, and so on. Me? I mainly travel so I’ll have a good excuse for repeatedly missing blog deadlines, and also because there’s a part of me that’s […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bonnie Raitt, Cities Where Stuff Happened, Drive-By Truckers, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hejira, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Mavis Staples, Michael Ross, Mike Ross, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Radio Nowhere, Radio Nowhere # 7, Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened, Subpop, Treme, Trombone Shorty ·

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June 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Soaked in Bleach: Film

Soaked in Bleach Benjamin Statler Montani Productions/Daredevil Films It took just shy of a decade for this film to come to fruition. Another new Kurt Cobain documentary, but this is essentially the opposite of/opposite to Montage of Heck. Where that was a tribute – albeit creepy and voyeuristic and lacking in real grit or substance […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Conspiracy Theorist, Courtney Love, Doco, Documentary, Film Review, Kurt & Courtney, Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck, Movie, Nirvana, Soaked in Bleach: Film, Tom Grant ·

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May 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: Film

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Director: Brett Morgen HBO Documentary Films/Public Road Productions The first official, authorised documentary of Kurt Cobain, it’s been assembled lovingly, painstakingly, some eight years in the making…but it doesn’t feature Dave Grohl at all (elephant in the room) and it probably never needed to happen. The idea that this is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Brett Morgan, Courtney Love, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Review, Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Music Documentary, Nirvana ·

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December 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 975

Nirvana, MTV Unplugged In New York (1994) The only Nirvana album I had on vinyl (until buying this recently) is Bleach. I love that record – and still play it a bit. I love the other albums but they’re played-out for me. I can’t really imagine wanting to play them through beginning to end ever […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1994, All Apologies, Bleach, LP, MTV, MTV Unplugged, MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana, Unplugged, Vinyl ·

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December 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Good On Him!

when Kurt Cobain put his brains to the wall with a shotgun shot, he got a better response than at any concert. It was indeed the final Curtain Call, but before the final curtain did fall, he found some extra fans, people too young to know what Nirvana did. And so I presume that’s what […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Good On Him!, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Poem ·
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