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July 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 85

Carpenters, Voice of the Heart (1983) I am a Carpenters fan – but that wasn’t always the case, I had to ‘come out’ as such. The tribute album gave me the license – but the songs had always been in my heart. For many years I had a Greatest Hits album on vinyl but in […]
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July 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2

Various Artists: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2 NOW As with the first volume this is more a compilation of acceptable cheese than it is ‘Yacht Rock’. Yacht Rock’s dead anyway, it sunk – but not without traces. The wind changed. Maybe as soon as people started making compilations with the words […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, cheese, Compilation, Mix, Now, NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock, NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2, NOW Yacht Rock 2, V/A, Various Artists, Yacht Rock, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock

Various Artists: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock CUSTOM MARKETING GROUP I think the perfect thing to sum up “YACHT ROCK” is that a good four years after people stopped giving a fuck about the name (and for the fairweather sailors much of the music too) there’s a compilation on the market called NOW […]
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April 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

I Am A Carpenters Fan: To Be Born Again

The Carpenters were brother and sister duo, Richard and Karen. She would turn down any kind of drumstick other than the kind used to play music. He was a piano teacher interested in jazz and classical music; interested in arranging and composition. It took me a while to understand the appeal of The Carpenters – […]
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March 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1175

Dexys, One Day I’m Going To Soar (2012) I’ve always been a fan of Dexys Midnight Runners – in and out of fashion, and, probably, in the time that I’ve been a fan they were never really in fashion. But I was curious to check out the new album by the band now known as […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Carlo Rolan, Dexys, Dexys Midnight Runners, Incapable of Love, Kevin Rowland, Now, One Day I'm Going To Soar ·

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December 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1696

Joni Mitchell, Clouds (1969) It’s no secret that I’m a huge Joni Mitchell fan but this album was never one of my favourites. It probably was one of the gateways though; I started with a best-of compilation (well, two – the Hits and Misses discs) and from there I started collecting Joni’s albums. Blue of […]
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