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Posts Tagged Reflection

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December 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Self Pitying Hindsight IS 2020

The god-awful small affair that Bowie mentioned seems to have lasted a lifetime –  this year I turned older than Billie Holiday ever did. I’ll never make as many records as Todd Rundgren could in one year. I’d never dare to try. I wrote a book and no one really had a look – or […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 20/20, Billie Holiday, Bowie, Coronavirus, Covid-19, David Bowie, Hindsight, Poem, Poem: Self Pitying Hindsight In 2020, Poem: Self Pitying Hindsight IS 2020, R.E.M., Reflection, Self Pity, Self Pitying Hindsight, Self Pitying Hindsight In 2020, Self Pitying Hindsight IS 2020, Todd Rundgren ·

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September 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’

It’s been a while – and since the big news for a lot of people this week was the announcement that Sleep will be playing NZ shows next year (for the first time ever) I thought, in honour of the album Dopesmoker we could look at four single-track albums; album-length songs. So here goes…
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 19, A Passion Play, Album-Length ‘Songs’, Albums, Black Unity, Brian Eno, Dopesmoker, Drive By, Five Song, Five Songs, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: 19, Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’, Jethro Tull, Neroli, Pharoah Sanders, Reflection, Single Track Albums, Sleep, Songs, The Necks, Thick As A Brick ·

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July 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 524

Roy Haynes, We Three (1959) I’ve looked at this album for years – years – always wanted it. Pure and simple Roy Haynes is a mutha! 92 years old and still hitting – still so good, but one of the greatest and most recorded drummers in jazz. A hero. And so much more. And here […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1959, Bass, Drums, Jazz, LP, Paul Chambers, Phineas Newborn, Phineas Newborn Jr., Piano, Record, Reflection, Roy Haynes, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 524, Trio, Vinyl, We Three ·

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January 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Brian Eno: Reflection

Brian Eno Reflection Warp It’s tempting to suggest that Eno is being very prolific – once again, but isn’t he always? Isn’t Eno – as much a concept as he is a man – always at work, hasn’t ENO spread off into various distilled channels, surging through the work of others? At any rate, one […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Eno, LUX, Neroli, New Year's Day, Reflection, Warp ·

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January 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 92 Over The Gully

12/9/1962 The house my dad built was on the edge of town – it literally backed on to farmland in 1962. He bought a section in Hamilton near Hillcrest Normal School and by the time I was five it was finished and we had moved in. There was a big gully down the back of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 12/9/1962, 27/12/2015, Art, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hamilton, Holiday, Jon Mcleary, Memoir, Music, Over The Gully, Reflection, Spines, Summer, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary Over The Gully, Waikato, War Stories, War Stories # 92, Wellington, Writing, Xmas ·

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July 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 1 – We All Start Somewhere, Icehouse’s Man of Colours

This blog isn’t going to be a chronology of my music fandom, nor is it meant to be particularly autobiographical, but it still makes sense to kick things off at the beginning. Not the first album I was aware of, or even the first album I owned, but certainly the album that really got the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1987, 1988, 80s, Albums, Australia, Guest Blog, Icehouse, Icehouse's Man of Colours, Iva Davies, Man Of Colours, Michael Ross, Radio Nowhere, Radio Nowhere # 1, Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 1 - We All Start Somewhere, Reflection, Writing ·

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