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March 9, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
The Age of Aquarius Will Outlast Us All
The Age of Aquarius has played all through my life. I’ve been aware of it forever. It was here long before me, it’ll be here long after. It seemed kitsch when I first noticed that I’d heard it. Shortly after, it felt perfect. It’s always seemed like a song that wasn’t written, that just evolved […]Archive
February 21, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: In Only The Right Way
I love a good sad song. There might not be anything better in music than a sad song that doesn’t bring you down, some sad music that elevates you. You wallow in someone else’s problems – for three or four minutes only. You gain a perspective from hearing your own pain placed in minor chords […]Archive
February 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Walking In Memphis: Man, It Sounds Good Tonight!
Marc Cohn singing Walking in Memphis is something I always believed in. And any time I hear it I can remember the first time I heard it – it didn’t really fit in with anything else I was listening to, or with much on the radio at the time; used to see it on the […]Archive
October 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Aquarius Music
The Age of Aquarius has played through my life – it was here long before me, it’ll be here long after. It seemed kitsch when I first heard it. Shortly after, it felt perfect. It’s always seemed like a song that wasn’t written, that just evolved into being. Hilarious, given it was made for a […]Archive
September 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: There’s No Name Suppression In New Zealand
There’s no name suppression in New Zealand There are no privileged without charms There’s no name suppression in New Zealand We all know who you are But everybody’s talking about Covid-19 Cause everybody’s talking about Covid-19 But we’re as safe as can be so move us to level three! We have no restrictions We have […]Archive
August 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Paula Green’s Poetry Shelf: Thirteen Poems About Song
New Zealand’s Patron Saint to Poetry – Paula Green – does many great things with, and on, her Poetry Shelf, but over winter this year she’s been posting a different set of ‘Theme’ poems by varioius poets. Each Friday a new theme. I’ve loved them, have shared them all. And this week I was one of the […]Archive
July 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of ‘Walking On The Chinese Wall’
I am in love with the song Walking On The Chinese Wall by Philip Bailey. It’s a multiple whammy of guilty pleasure moments and I do not care. It has been my call-to-home for weeks now, months even. Something happened when I heard it for the first time in a while several months back. Olfactory […]Archive
March 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Making American Recordings
Johnny Cash and his guitar in a room, with the ghosts of the men he used to be. That’s the way to make new history. Take the last quarter century and put it in the bin. Make the song the thing. Make it the only thing. Let the song ring out its truth. Let the […]Archive
December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Dear Prudence,
My parents planned to name me Prudence if I was a girl. I wasn’t – so that is pretty much that. I hated the name – but loved the song; when I heard it was because my dad always loved that tune from The White Album it made more sense, or something like that. Now […]Archive
June 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Makings Of You
Ask Curtis, it’s true it’s almost impossible to do when it comes to reciting the makings of you I listen to the song so often. It’s the one that softens me like nothing else could ever do. When I first heard it I stopped everything I ever thought I was doing. Just listened – played […]Archive
December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman