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July 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Alexander Taylor: Scream, Queen! – My Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Soundtrack) 

Alexander Taylor Scream, Queen! – My Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Soundtrack) Notefornote Ent The documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street is worth a watch – a fascinating story within a story, of both the making of the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge and the coming out of its […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [Original Soundtrack], [OST], A Nightmare On Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Alexander Taylor, Christopher Young, Documentary, Freddy Krueger, Queen, Score, Scream, Scream Queen!, Scream Queen! – My Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Soundtrack), Soundtrack, Stranger Things, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Queen + Adam Lambert: Live Around The World

Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around The World Hollywood Records It’s fair to say no one needs this live album by half of Queen and all of Adam Lambert. But there are probably a few psycho-fans that WANT it. So here it is. I enjoyed a Queen + Adam Lambert concert way more than I […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adam Lambert, Album Review, Compilation, Gig, Live, Live Album, Live Around The World, Queen, Queen + Adam Lambert, Queen + Adam Lambert: Live Around The World, Show, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 275 – Queen + Adam Lambert, Wellington, 2020

What a strange year 2020 has turned out to be. It started off weirdly enough. There I am at a fucking Queen concert! (And mostly enjoying it). Next thing there are no concerts at all ever again. No visitors. No tours. And every musician is having a massive spit about loss of income this and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 20/20, Adam Lambert, Gig, Gig Review, Live, Oscar, Queen, Queen + Adam Lambert, Rhapsody, Stadium, Stub, Stubs, Stubs is an occasional feature here at Off The Tracks – looking back through the ticket-stub box and remembering how the show went down., Stubs: # 275, Stubs: # 275 – Queen + Adam Lambert, Wellington, World Tour ·

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June 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 31 – Queen, “Hot Space”

Queen, Hot Space, 1982 It should have been called Hot Mess! Amiright? Or amiright? Most Queen fans hate Hot Space, rate it as the one to not rate – its saving grace being the final track, the duet with David Bowie – Under Pressure. Apart from that? What’s there? Messy, meaningless, disco-tinged pop-crap that has […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Hot Space”, 1982, Brian May, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Queen, Roger Taylor, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 31, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 31 – Queen, Under Pressure ·

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February 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 162

Queen, Live Killers (1979) I bought this for Oscar – he loved the Queen + Adam Lambert concert so much (and yeah, yeah so did I!) so I thought I’d get him a record for his room (he has a small collection – basically just Beatles/Beatles-related records and a cheap portable player). And, actually, okay, […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, 2xLP, Don't Stop Me Now, Gatefold, Live, Live Killers, LP, Queen, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 162, Vinyl ·

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February 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Queen + Adam Lambert (February 5, Wellington)

Queen + Adam Lambert Sky Stadium, Wellington Wednesday, February 5 I was there. At a Queen concert. Well, a “Queen + Adam Lambert” concert (which is a Queen concert these days). But would I do the fandango? What was I doing at a Queen concert? I have written – often – about not liking this […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adam Lambert, Brian May, February 5, Freddie Mercury, Gig, Gig Review, Gig Review: Queen + Adam Lambert, John Deacon, Live Gig, NOT JOHN DEACON, Queen, Roger Taylor, Sky Stadium, Wednesday, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The “Worst” Songs by The “Best” Bands

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Best, Duran Duran, Feature, Jesse Mulligan, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Queen, Radio NZ, RNZ, RNZ Feature: The "Worst" Songs by The "Best" Bands, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Police, The worst songs by the best bands, Worst, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 116: Queen Latifah – “All Hail The Queen”

I was going to say that I was very much Team Neneh Cherry back in this day – but a) I still am. And b) it wasn’t about choosing sides. I just mean that – for whatever reason – I never listened to Queen Latifah. I was aware of her, heard a song or two, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “All Hail The Queen”, 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums Challenge, 1001 Albums To, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1980s, 1989, 80s, All Hall The Queen, Beastie Boys, De La Soul, Debut, Hip-Hop, KRS-One, Latifah, Queen, Queen Latifah – “All Hail The Queen”, Rap, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 116, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 116: Queen Latifah – “All Hail The Queen” ·

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December 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 110: Laibach – “Opus Dei”

Despite the Slovenian industrial band being around since the very start of the 1980s – and on record since at least the mid-80s I had not heard Laibach until the release of their 2003 opus, WAT. I kinda liked it. There was a world to discover. It arrived liked most musical letterbombs at that time […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1980s, 1987, 80s, Avant-Garde, Cover, Industrial, Laibach, Laibach – “Opus Dei”, metal, One Vision, Opus Dei, Queen, Slovenian, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 110:, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 110: Laibach – “Opus Dei”, WAT ·

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May 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

We Need To Not Talk About Muse (Again)

I’d rather not talk about Muse – it’s far more interesting than, say, talking about Muse. But there was a handful of requests for a review of the new album back then in 2015. Then I was told I had to justify feeling that way…vitriol, I was told, was not insight. Fairplay. Here goes: If […]
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January 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, Sydney)

Foo Fighters & Weezer ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park; Sydney, Australia Saturday, January 27 The Foo Fighters are a strange beast – they have been in existence some 22 years. Started, as a solo project by Dave Grohl, a dumping ground for demos he’d been building up in Nirvana’s final moments and then in the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2018), AC/DC, Alice Cooper, ANZ Stadium, Aussie, Australia, Co-Headlining Tour, Concrete & Gold, Covers, Dave Grohl, David Bowie, Drum Solo, Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters & Weezer, Frontier, Frontier Touring, Gig Review, Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, January 27, Live, Live Gig, Live Gig Review, Live Music, Pat Smear, Queen, Ramones, Review, Rivers Cuomo, Spectacle, Stadium, Sydney, Sydney Olympic Park, Taylor Hawkins, Weezer, Weezer & Foo Fighters ·

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October 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 86 – Claire Mabey & Andrew Laking (Pirate & Queen)

Welcome to episode 86 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This is a conversation with Claire Mabey and Andrew Laking (aka Pirate & Queen), they are event organisers, and the co-creators/directors of Wellington’s coolest little literary festival, Litcrawl. We talk about their backgrounds (Claire’s a book-nerd and has worked […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Andrew Laking, Bob Dylan, Book, Books, Chat, Claire Mabey, Claire Mabey & Andrew Laking, Conversation, ep.86, Episode Eighty-Six, Interview, Le Petite Chocolat, LitCrawl, Litcrawl 2017, Literarture, Literary Festival, Loemis, November, Pirate, Pirate & Queen, Podcast, Queen, Readers, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 86, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 86 – Claire Mabey & Andrew Laking, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 86 – Claire Mabey & Andrew Laking (Pirate & Queen), T Leaf T, Wellington, Wgtn, Writers, Writing, Yeastie Boys ·
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