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September 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Chris Frantz: Remain In Love

Remain In Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina Chris Frantz St. Martin’s Press Talking Heads made nearly perfect music across 10 nearly perfect albums (eight studio, two live). There are post-punkers and people there at the time that swear only by the first four albums, thinking the second half of the band’s career some […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Autobiography, Book, Book Review, Chris Frantz, Chris Frantz: Remain In Love, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Memoir, Remain In Light, Remain In Love, Remain In Love: Talking Heads Tom Tom ClubTina, St. Martin's Press, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth, Tom Tom Club, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: June 2018

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2018), 2pm, Afternoons, Angelique Kidjo, Crosseyed And Painless, Ebo Taylor, Jesse Mulligan, June, Poverty No Good, Radio, Radio NZ, Radio Review, Remain In Light, Review, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews: June 2018, Talking Heads, Wednesday, Yen Ara, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Angelique Kidjo: Remain In Light

Angelique Kidjo Remain in Light KRAVENWORKS Angelique Kidjo is African Music Royalty – even if she’s suffered some claims of (somehow) not being “Authentic”. Hers is a fine body of work, moving and political, so often utterly joyous and accessible too as she creates a version of Afrobeat that integrates mainstream international music; hers then […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Africa, African Music, Afrobeat, Afropop, Album Review, Angelique Kidjo, Angelique Kidjo: Remain In Light, Antibalas, Blood Orange, Born Under Punches, Brian Eno, Crosseyed And Painless, Houses In Motion, KRAVENWORKS, Once In A Lifetime, Remain In Light, Talking Heads, Tony Allen, Vampire Weekend, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 496

Talking Heads, Once In A Lifetime [Single] (1981) The drums push forward, the bass pulls back and this isn’t really a song, it’s a bunch of ideas falling over themselves, cascading, oscillating, evading melody in favour of finding a groove. The words are catchphrases, evangelical, delightful. A tune existing in its own space, in its […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, 1981, A-side, B-side, David Byrne, LP, Once In A Lifetime, Record, Remain In Light, Seen And Not Seen, Single, Talking Heads, The Vinyl Countdown # 496, Vinyl ·

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April 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Trading: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I often see posts on Facebook complaining/warning people to be careful when buying records from TradeMe auctions. The warning/complaint usually suggests that – essentially – things aren’t always what they seem. This is part of buying goods when you can’t see/test them first. You can view pictures, sure, but with something as tactile as vinyl […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2nd-Hand, Angela, Angela (Theme From Taxi), Bob James, Condition, eBay, Facebook, KFC, LP, Music, Ok Computer, Quarter Pack, Radiohead, Records, Remain In Light, Scratches, Social Media, Spotlight On The Kinks, Swap, Talking Heads, Taxi, The Bad and The Ugly, The Good, The Kinks, Touchdown, TradeMe, Trades, Trading, Trading: The Good, Vinyl, Vol. 1 ·

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February 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Music of Talking Heads: A Perfect Set of Worlds

I was introduced to the music of Talking Heads when the band was at its commercial peak. But to say I was introduced is not quite correct. I think, actually, the music announced itself. I’m talking the big hits – Road To Nowhere, And She Was, Burning Down The House, that sort of thing. For […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged '77, A Perfect Set of Worlds, African, And She Was, Bernie Worrell, Brian Eno, Burning Down The House, Chris Frantz, David Byrne, Fear Of Music, Fela Kuti, Jerry Harrison, Little Creatures, More Songs About Build, My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, Naked, Once In A Lifetime, Pop, Psycho Killer, Remain In Light, Road To Nowhere, Speaking In Tongues, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, The Music Of Talking Heads, The Music of Talking Heads: A Perfect Set of Worlds, Tina Weymouth, True Stories ·

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February 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Three Days: One Album

Here’s a twist on the ole Desert Island Discs thing – you are locked in the house with one album for three days… Why? Why not? It’s Friday. I found this picture (or rather it found me). I then started thinking about it – and I like the idea of not only the fact that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Album, Decline To Fall, Desert Island Discs, One Album, Records, Remain In Light, Secret Holiday/Victory Blues, Talking Heads, The Puddle, Three Days, Three Days: One Album ·

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May 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Eno & Hyde: Someday World

Eno & Hyde Someday World Warp Records If you have/had huge expectations around this – a “dream pairing” as everyone is saying – the collaborative album by Underworld’s Karl Hyde and Brian Eno you might well be disappointed. This is an album that has plenty of promising starts but never ever nails it; never hits […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Eno, Eno & Hyde, Karl Hyde, My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, Remain In Light, Someday World, Talking Heads, Underworld ·

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May 20, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1994

Talking Heads, Remain In Light (1980) I don’t remember how/when I first heard Remain In Light but I was a Talking Heads fan at a very early age (most likely due to my older brother being a Talking Heads fan). I bought Naked on tape – and worked backwards from there. Although we had Stop Making […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Brian Eno, David Byrne, Fela Kuti, Remain In Light, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Vinyl ·

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