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May 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 53 – Iggy Pop, “Brick By Brick”

Iggy Pop, Brick By Brick, 1990 When I was 15 I loved this. And I loved it because of the music on it, sure. But I loved it, first of all, because I had found the poster in a music store, given it from the counter-staff to hang on my wall. I thought it was […]
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March 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 26: Michael Jackson, Auckland 1996

I remember the announcement – tickets on sale the old-school way, you had to line-up; just pre-internet-booking. I thought about sleeping out overnight – but decided against it, I didn’t have a sleeping bag. Could have taken the car and slept in it but decided instead to just have an early night and set the […]
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June 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 48 – Boris Gardiner, “Everything To Me”

Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me, 1986 Nostalgia works in funny ways – it pulls you in at the weirdest times. I knew Boris Gardiner by fluke. One day in the library I saw a CD called Every Nigger Is A Star. It is the soundtrack to a film I haven’t seen. I took the CD […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1986, Boris Gardiner, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Every Nigger Is A Star, Everything To Me, I Want To Wake Up With You, LP, Pop, Record, Reggae, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 48, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 48 – Boris Gardiner, The Vinyl Countdown, Vinyl, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sara Dallin & Keren Woodward: Really Saying Something (Sara & Keren) – Our Bananarama Story

Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story Sara Dallin & Keren Woodward Cornerstone / Penguin This cool summer I got hooked on the song Cruel Summer – and hooked again on Bananarama for the first time in absolutely years. So giddy with the rush of nostalgia I wrote a goddamn poem about […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bananarama, Band, Band Biography, Biography, Bok, Book, Book Review, Cruel Something, Keren Woodward, Our Bananarama Story, Pop, Really Saying Something, Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story, Sara and Keren, Sara Dallin, Sara Dallin & Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin & Keren Woodward: Really Saying Something (Sara & Keren) – Our Bananarama Story, Siobhan Fahey, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The Bee Gees – How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Film

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Director: Frank Marshall Diamond Docs / White Horse Pictures / HBO Documentary Films / HBO Max Oh, I love the Bee Gees! Wasn’t always the case. As a kid I feel like I was trained to laugh at them – via Kenny Everett and later […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Andy Gibb, Band, Barbra Streisand, Barry Gibb, Bee Gees, disco, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Review, HBO, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, How Deep Is Your Love, Maurice Gibb, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Doco, Pop, Robin Gibb, Saturday Night Fever, Songwriters, Songwriting, The Bee Gees, The Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Film, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 63

Carpenters, Ticket To Ride (1970) Bought a few Carpenters records recently – already had a few, but trying to pick up the ones I don’t have. In part it was because I was talking about the band for a radio show – which is done now. You can click that link to check it out […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1970, All I Can Do, Carpenters, Covers, David N. White Gallery, Debut, Duo, Karen, Karen Carpenter, LP, Mr Fox's Shop, Offering, Peppa Pig, Pop, Record, Richard, Richard Carpenter, RNZ, Second-Hand, Siblings, The Carpenters, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 63, Ticket To Ride, Vinyl ·

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August 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Ben Lee: Quarter Century Classix

Ben Lee Quarter Century Classix New West Records I’ve always wanted to like Ben Lee more than I think I actually do. And I’ll always give an album of cover-versions an extra chance. So I’m an all-day sucker right here when Ben Lee decides to release a collection of his favourite indie-pop songs that are […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 25 Years, Album Review, Alt, Ben Lee, Ben Lee: Quarter Century Classix, Cover Versions, Covers, Indie, Pop, Quarter Century Classix, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gigs I Saw in 2019

I probably saw fewer gigs – and reviewed fewer gigs – in 2019 than any other year. That’s kinda nice. I also paid for a few shows too; more than other years. That’s also nice – liberating…although I’m so conditioned to writing a review to process the show that I still turn out the reviews […]
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November 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 217

The Rolling Stones, Flowers (1967) I almost never feel like listening to The Rolling Stones these days – possibly because I’ve heard it all and heard it all for too long and too often. They were a band I really cared about for the longest time, but now it’s very rare I can make it […]
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September 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 186: Dean Chandler

Welcome to episode 186 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
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July 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Vox Lux: DVD

Vox Lux  Director: Brady Corbet  Madman  Vox Lux comes from actor/director Brady Corbet. It’s the 30-year-old’s second full-length feature and it’s something of a Sunset Blvd. for the me/#metoo generation; a 21st century masterpiece.   Spanning 1999-2017 and narrated – brilliantly, exacerbating the fable-like quality of it – by Willem Dafoe, the film tells the coming of age and then comeback of Celeste Montgomery. Played […]
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June 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 287

Dolly Parton, Great Balls of Fire (1979) Dolly, Dolly, Dolly…I’ve probably bashed everyone over the head with Dolly Parton lately – listening to almost everything she’s ever done (some 63 studio albums) for a recent chat on the radio about how Dolly is great. But here’s the funny thing, I own precisely two Dolly LPs. A cheap TimeLife compilation with the obvious hits […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, Country, Crossover, Dolly, Dolly Parton, Great Balls of Fire, Help!, LP, Pop, Record, RNZ, Star of the Show, The Vinyl Countdown # 287, Vinyl ·
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