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September 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

David Bowie: Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95)

David Bowie Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95) Parlophone UK The gates are wide open now, the David Bowie reissues and new releases are pouring. Some are very, very boring. Some didn’t need to happen. But there are some gems – of course. There’s gold in the vault, and probably a bit more to come […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1. Outside, 1995, 20/20, Album Review, Archive, Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie: Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95), Live, Live Dallas 95, Outside, Ouvrez Le Chien, Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95), Parlophone UK, posthumous, Reissue, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Hart and Soul

Out back in the yard with my book of poems by Hart Crane and reading it is hard – but good things don’t come easy. Or if they do it’s with some confusion too – like the sun shining in the middle of winter, the new puppy is out and off; exploring… and there’s music – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bowie, Bowie The Dog, Dog, Hart, Hart and Soul, Hart Crane, Heart, Outside, Poem, Poem: Hart and Soul, Poet, Poetry, Puppy, Soul ·

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March 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

David Bowie’s Most Underrated Album: 1. Outside

People talk about David Bowie’s phenomenal run of albums across the 1970s – and it really is (almost all) great. So much of it is wonderful, sublime, so near to perfect. And depending where you stop on the scale you have the absolute cut-off of Scary Monsters or tolerance/appreciation for Let’s Dance. From there it’s […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1. Outside, Blackstar, Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie's Most Underrated Album, David Bowie's Most Underrated Album: 1. Outside, Eno, Joey Baron, Mike Garson, Outside, Seven, Station To Station, The Lost Highway ·

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November 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 37 – Robert Forster

Welcome to episode 37 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) is a hero. I wasn’t going to let a chance to record him for the podcast slip by. We ended up in a café – where I bought him a coffee and a sugar-free cake (and later he […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Bonus, Book, Chat, Conversation, Ep.37, Episode 37, Grant & I, Grant And I, Interview, IV, Live, Outside, Podcast, Robert Forster, Singer/Songwriter, Songs To Play, Southern Cross, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 37 – Robert Forster, The Go-Betweens, Tour, Wellington, Wind ·

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July 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Dylan Howe: Subterranean – New Designs on Bowie’s Berlin

Dylan Howe Subterranean – New Designs on Bowie’s Berlin Motorik Recordings British drummer Dylan Howe leads his own small ensemble, plays drums in his father’s trio (dad is guitarist Steve Howe) and has worked with Wilko Johnson and Ian Dury among others here covers Bowie’s Berlin-era instrumentals; reinterprets them, shifts their context. The electronic elements […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1. Outside, Adrian Utley, Album Review, Berlin, Brandon Allen, David Bowie, Dylan Howe, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heroes, Jazz, Julian Siegal, Low, Outside, Ross Stanley, Some Are, Steve Howe, Subterranean, Subterranean - New Designs on Bowie's Berlin, Subterraneans, Wayne Shorter, Weeping Wall ·

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September 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1835

David Bowie, Heathen (2002) Some people rave about Heathen, some are not so sure – there’s obviously a huge amount of David Bowie fans who gave up on him years ago. It’s a perfectly acceptable/realistic approach, after all, to only listen to Bowie across the 1970s – it is a stunning body of work. So […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Cactus, David Bowie, Earthling, Heathen, Let's Dance, Outside, Reality, Scary Monsters, Sunday, Vinyl, Ziggy Stardust ·

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