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June 13, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Prince Understood The Assignment

Prince wrote Purple Rain because he needed a big ballad, a stadium anthem. He’d been following Bob Seger around America, he couldn’t believe how popular he was. People loved the big hits – like Turn The Page and We’ve Got Tonight; anthems, ballads. Prince always understood the assignment. He set himself homework and then cut […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bob Seger, Poem, Poem: Prince Understood The Assignment, Prince, Prince Understood The Assignment, Purple Rain ·

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May 9, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #13: Under The Cherry Moon (aka “Parade”) by Prince

The soundtrack and score for the movie Under The Cherry Moon is actually an album called Parade by star of both the film and the soundtrack, Prince. This threw me when I was a kid. Soundtracks are title after the movie. But Prince got me thinking about how the soundtrack could really live on its […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], 1980s, 1986, Blog, Film, Good, Good Score, Parade, Prince, Purple Rain, Score, Under The Cherry Moon, What A Good Score!, What A Good Score! – #13, What A Good Score! – #13: Under The Cherry Moon (aka “Parade”) by Prince ·

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May 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 311

Kenny Rogers, They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To (1986) The best thing about being given far too many Kenny Rogers albums (no shame in a greatest hits or two – and I even saw him live a quarter-century ago or so and it was okay) is finding the hidden gems, like the song […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, Apollonia, Apollonia 6, Demo, Duet, Joey Coco, Kenny Rogers, LP, Prince, Purple Rain, Record, Sheila E., The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 311, They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, Vanity, Vanity 6, Vinyl, You're My Love ·

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March 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Mdou Moctar: Blue Stage Session

Mdou Moctar  Blue Stage Session  Third Man Records  Third Man Records is easily the best thing Jack White’s ever done – and for proof we need only look at at things like this, limited edition, direct-to-vinyl recording sessions that showcase the best of popular and fringe acts.   Here Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar lets his spidery, psychedelic-jam guitar loose over crawling spirals of drum rhythm. His hypnotic weave of desert blues and new-frontier […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 12", Album Review, Arounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, Blue Stage Session, Jack White, Ltd Edition, Mdou Moctar, Mdou Moctar: Blue Stage Session, Purple Rain, Third Man, Third Man Records, Tuareg, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 15 – Enduring Favourites, Revisiting Legends…

Been a while since I’ve done a Five For Friday so I’m going old-school – old, old school – in the sense that everything here is something I’ve loved for a long time – these artists are in my special list of all-time favourites; in a lot of cases I come and go, give them […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive – Extended Version), 5, Bob Dylan, Classics, Enduring Favourites Revisiting Legends…, Erotic City, Five Songs, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: # 15, Five Songs For Friday: # 15– Enduring Favourites, Frank Sinatra, Fri, Friday, Hejira, Horses, I've Got You Under My Skin, Joni Mitchell, Legends, Live At The Sands, Prince, Purple Rain, Revisiting Legends…, Rickie Lee Jones, Stardust, Triplicae, Weekend ·

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June 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Prince: Purple Rain (Deluxe) [Expanded Edition]

Prince Purple Rain (Deluxe) [Expanded Edition] NPG Records/Warner Bros. This is the one people have been waiting for – particularly since the sad news last year. Prince was readying this release – it was planned to happen in his lifetime, it was further delayed across the last year – its 30th Anniversary well and truly […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, B-Sides, Deluxe, Expanded Edition, Prince, Prince: Purple Rain (Deluxe) [Expanded Edition], Purple Rain, Purple Rain (Deluxe) [Expanded Edition], Re-Release, Reissue, Remixes ·

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April 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Kitsch or Classic: What is Your Favourite 1980s Soundtrack Album?

Here’s a very simple question for you – what is the best 1980s film soundtrack? What is your favourite?  I ask this because I’ve only recently realised that I am something of a collector of film soundtracks – particularly ones from the 1980s. Obscure, obvious and all points between. You want it (or most likely […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Giorgio Moroder, Kitsch or Classic, Kitsch or Classic: What is Your Favourite 1980s Soundtrack Album?, Less Than Zero, Madonna, Over The Top, Prince, Purple Rain, Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Sammy Hagar, What is Your Favourite 1980s Soundtrack Album? ·

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September 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Mick Wall: Prince – Purple Reign

Prince: Purple Reign Mick Wall Trapeze Three months after the shock death of Prince Mick Wall releases this biography, well it purports to be a biography – there’s nothing new here and nothing for any Prince fan to learn. The book begins with the 911 call which seems particularly cold. But this is Mick Wall […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biography, Book, Book Review, Mick Wall, Prince, Prince - Purple Reign, Purple Rain, Purple Reign ·

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May 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Vorn Colgan

Vorn Colgan has been New Zealand’s best-kept musical secret for so long now that it seems almost a shame to spoil it.  He has been writing and releasing albums under the Vorn moniker to critical acclaim and commercial non-plussed-ness since 1999, as well as contributing to the work of indie legends such as Dangerpin, The Sproutts and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 8mile, A Hard Day's Night, Dangerpin, Drowning By Numbers, Eight Mile, Elvis Presley, Film, Film Review, Films, Five Films That Stay With Me: Vorn Colgan, Gold Medal Famous, Kids, LoudQUIETLoud, Maniac, Mean Girls, Monty Python, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, MOON, Movie Review, Movies, Music, Musician, Newtown, One Trick Pony, Pixies, Prince, Pulp Fiction, Purple Rain, Reservoir Dogs, Saturday May 14, Special Guest, Taranaki, The Breakfast Club, The Lord of The Rings, The Sound of Music, The Sproutts, This Is It, Vorn, Vorn Colgan, Wellington, Wellington Sea Shanty Society, Wgtn ·

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April 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

DJ Setlist: PRINCE – A Tribute Night, Meow, Friday, April 29, 2016

It was a tribute night to the Purple One following the news that’s still so hard to take even as it continues to sink in, and the loss seems more astounding by the day. I teared up this afternoon rewatching the clip of Prince slaying all with his solo at the end of the all-star […]
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April 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 708

Prince, Graffiti Bridge (1990) The film – a fucking mess, aiming at being some sort of “spiritual” sequel to the Purple Rain movie – was bloody hard to sit through a second time, the first time I was young and such a fan I went with it, even though it was ludicrous. But I’ve always […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1990, double-album, Film, Graffiti Bridge, LP, Prince, Purple Rain, R.I.P., Record, The Nude Tour, The Question of U, The Vinyl Countdown # 708, Thieves in the Temple, Vinyl ·

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February 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Mdou Moctar: Arounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai

Mdou Moctar Arounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai [Original Soundtrack Recording] Sahel Sounds It’s easy enough – and fair enough – to have a lighthearted chuckled around some of the absurdities of this project – a remake of Prince’s Purple Rain movie in a language with no word for ‘Purple’; crowd-funded and starring the guitarist that penned […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [Original Soundtrack Recording], [OST], Africa, Album, Album Review, Arounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, Crowd Funding, Desert Blues, Film, Mdou Moctar, Music, Purple Rain, Soundtrack, Tinariwen, Tuareg ·
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