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July 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: The Music of Paul McCartney
About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. It was time to talk Paul McCartney (I’ve only got John […]Archive
July 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 92
Phoebe Snow, Phoebe Snow (1974) Was Phoebe Snow underrated? Certainly by me! Every time I’ve heard her I’ve loved her – that Paul McCartney cover. Singing with Paul Simon. I used to have that single-disc Best of Phoebe Snow (on CD – though I thought I had the record too, apparently not). So I picked […]Archive
February 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Brad Mehldau: Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film)
Brad Mehldau Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film) Same Player Sign me up for the film straight away: A French translation of the John Fante novella (My Dog Stupid from the posthumous collection West of Rome in which a middle-aged couple with marriage troubles have a big ‘Stupid’ dog come between them – written, […]Archive
January 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: The Music of 1990
For my first regular music feature on RNZ for 2020 I decided to look at the music of 1990 – or at least some of the music from the start of the year and the big hits. Guilty pleasures, pop, rock – some enduring hits and some best forgotten. It was fun to look at […]Archive
December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 202
Paul McCartney, Pipes of Peace (1983) Of all the Paul McCartney material to be reissued this is the one I hated the most hearing it the second time around – I had lost love for it, rather than gained any. And I say that as a fan of the title track purely because my intermediate […]Archive
December 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Back To The Excellent: Wings’ Much Maligned But Brilliant Back To The Egg Album at 40
At some stage in the coming weeks or months or next year there will be a new reissue by Sir Paul of Macca – his often shat-on final Wings album, Back To The Egg is rumoured to be part of the next round in the ongoing reissue/reappraisal reviewing of the McCartney/Wings canon. It’s possibly my […]Archive
November 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 16 – Paul McCartney, “Give My Regards To Broad Street”
Paul McCartney, Give My Regards To Broad Street, 1984 John Lennon makes a good greatest hits – Paul McCartney less so. With Paul it’s an album-by-album thing; he doesn’t excerpt well. Maybe because his biggest solo hits have been the “cheese” that turns so many off him. There’s certainly a lot of buried treasure in […]Archive
November 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Re-Righting The White Album: Choose Your Own Tracklisting
When Steve Gunn was in town last week I recorded a conversation with him for a future episode of Sweetman Podcast. You’ll get to hear that soon and it was a lovely chat. By the end of it we were geeking out over The Beatles and many other things to do with music. And then […]Archive
October 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Ringo Starr: What’s My Name
Ringo Starr What’s My Name Ringo Starr Every other Ringo Starr album is “the best thing he’s done in 30 years” – no one checks to see what album came out 30 years ago when they say that, they just assume it’s the requisite amount of distance. The alternate ones are dogshit and best forgotten, […]Archive
October 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 232
Sir Eugene Goossens, Sir Eugene Goossens Presents A Royal Philharmonic Concert (1961) The music is by Ravel, Debussy and Paul Dukas – so no complaints there. But this is my first time hearing this record, Sir Eugene Goosens was an English composer/conductor/arranger and he must have died very shortly after this album was released, chronology-wise; […]Archive
October 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman