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April 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Playlist: Phil Spector’s Greatest Hits
Okay, okay, Phil Spector is obviously a despicable – and probably fully cancelled – individual. But the music he made, stood over, demanded from people…that’s not going anywhere. Some of it is some of the best music ever. Almost all of it is worth savouring. I recently found a very cool single-LP greatest hits album – […]Archive
April 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #12: Eyes Wide Shut by Jocelyn Pook + Various
So many great soundtracks I’ve given away, lost, sold, traded, ditched. And one that springs to mind instantly, one I’ll be getting back a.s.a.f.p is Eyes Wide Shut’s soundtrack. Not a full score – it includes some songs too (but most of them are great) it’s a stunning set of music to a film that […]Archive
April 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #11: The Young & The Restless by Various
The music haunted me somewhat. In a way. I remember it so deeply from childhood. I wasn’t a fan of the show. But my mum was – it had started a few years before I was born, probably in perfect time for my older brother to start pre-school, I guess. And also, it was scheduled […]Archive
March 29, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
A Vinyl Affair – Wellington’s Record Fair: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Things are coming back. Well, it’s all still fingers crossed very much. But we can start to make plans again. One of the things that’s coming back is Wellington’s Record Fair: A Vinyl Affair. A chance for sellers to sell, for buyers to buy, for vinyl fans to hear great music (DJs all day) and get bargains, […]Archive
March 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Steve Braunias: Cover Story
Cover Story: 100 Beautiful, Strange and Frankly Incredible New Zealand LP Covers Steve Braunias Oratia Books Designed to show replica-sized prints of the album covers, and therefore itself the size of a 12” record (or boxset of them) and ready to be shelved alongside your record collection, Cover Story is, like many of the very […]Archive
March 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas: Blood On Black Wax – Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl
Blood On Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas 1984 Publishing If you’re a fan of horror films at all that probably means you’re a fan of horror movie soundtracks. They are such a crucial element – the mood-maker, the world-builder, they are in fact a character in the film in […]Archive
February 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #7: The Man With The Golden Arm by Elmer Bernstein
The score for The Man With The Golden Arm, by Elmer Bernstein is one of the great jazz movie scores. Just a great jazz album, period. So if you’re reading this and you haven’t seen the film and you’re not even all that interested in movie soundtracks (although why are you reading this?) it’s safe […]Archive
January 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 52 – Various, “Arthur The Album”
Various, Arthur – The Album, 1981 I was chatting with a friend recently. He hit play on Placebo and immediately said, “objectively there’s no real reason to like them – but I do”. We talked about Security Blanket Music. The idea that something is a comfort just because it’s there, because it’s known. This of […]Archive
December 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #2: The Piano by Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman’s score for the film The Piano was my introduction to the music of Michael Nyman – amazing composer. I had in fact, as is so often the way, actually heard some of his music previously (having seen some of the earlier films he’d scored – but I didn’t know that at the time). […]Archive
November 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: R & R
I strike a match to light a candle, I sit down to enjoy the crackle of a new record telling me all the old stories.Archive
October 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman