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June 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Pink Floyd Tapes  

12 and 13 and 14 years old and listening to  Pink Floyd tapes. Roger Waters’ first two solo albums too.  But it was the Floyd  stuff that meant the  most to me. Had me copying out the lyrics on an old typewriter. (Doing it the old-fashioned way). pause/rewind/play/ pause/rewind/play/ pause/rewind/play/ Syd Barrett’s solo material next. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Floyd, Lyrics, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd Tapes, Poem, Poem: Pink Floyd Tapes, Poems, Roger Waters, Songs, Tape, Tapes ·

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April 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Rick-Rolling Through My Tape Collection: Remembering The Generation of Cassette Tapes

I own Rick Astley’s Whenever You Need Somebody on tape. I bought it when it was released. I found that old tape just recently. (I have it on vinyl as well – nutcase!) Buying tapes – it dates you. I mowed lawns to earn money to buy tapes. Then I’d listen to the new tape […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1980s, 1990s, Blog, Blog On The Tracks, Cassette, Cassette Tape, Cassette Tapes, CD, Compact Disc, Get In The Ring, HB, LP, Music, Nostalgia, Remembering The Generation of Cassette TapesC, Rick Astley, Rick Roll'd, Rick-Rolling Through My Tape Collection, Rick-Rolling Through My Tape Collection: Remembering The Generation of Cassette Tapes, RickRoll, Tape, Tapes, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Particle Kid: Everything Is Bullshit

Particle Kid Everything Is Bullshit Particle Kid/Gnar Tapes One of two Particle Kid albums ripped out in the same year, Everything Is Bullshit is a strange world of magic. It reminds me of One Foot In The Grave-era Beck, not so much for the sound as for the surprises. It’s as wilful as Neil Young […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Everything Is Bullshit, Lukas Nelson, Micah Nelson, Neil Young, Particle Kid, Particle Kid: Everything Is Bullshit, Tape, The Promise of the Real, Willie Nelson, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

girlboss: Body Con

girlboss Body Con [ep] Ball of Wax Records A couple of years back I saw girlboss – then just a duo – and I’ve been waiting for some recordings ever since. Now, it’s a full band – still based around the singing and songs of guitarist/vocalist Lucy Botting, but augmented not only by Douglas Kelly’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Body Con, Body Con [EP], Cassette, Darian Wood, Douglas Kelly, EP, Girlboss, girlboss: Body Con, Ltd Ed, Lucy Botting, Olivia Campion, Pink, Tape, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Sometimes You Kick, Sometimes You Get Kicked

the INXS Kick album is 30 years old. I remember it so well. (Still dig it – Side One especially). It’s linked to when I had my first overseas trip. To the Gold Coast and Sydney. I’d saved my pocket money for a Walkman. My folks were going to buy me some jeans. Basketball boots […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [Picture Disc], Australia, CD, INXS, Kick, Nostalgia, Poem, Poem: Sometimes You Kick Sometimes You Get Kicked, Sometimes You Get Kicked, Sometimes You Kick, Sometimes You Kick Sometimes You Get Kicked, Tape, Vinyl ·

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November 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 470

Bob Dylan, Infidels (1983) One of the first Bob Dylan albums I heard  – and owned – I had the cassette tape first, graduated on to the CD. Never had the LP – until just very recently. But always loved this. Killer set of songs, amazing band, packed with legends – and it has the […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1983, Bob Dylan, Cassette, Infidels, LP, Mark Knopfler, Record, Sweetheart Like You, Tape, The Vinyl Countdown # 470, The War on Drugs, Vinyl, War on Drugs ·

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October 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

DJ OBOE: DJ OBOE

DJ OBOE DJ OBOE (Independent/Bandcamp) Riki Gooch is a drummer, produce and beatmaker. He’s been both band-leader and sideman and a DJ in various guises. He’s been making music under various aliases (Eru Dangerspiel, Cave Circles, Nil-Nil) across the last decade and a half and has been behind the kit (and sometime the MPC/sampler) for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Angola, Bandcamp, Beatmaker, Beats, Cassette, Cave Circles, DJ OBOE, EP, Eru Dangerspiel, Kuduro, Riki Gooch, Tape, Techno ·

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February 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

What’s The Most You’ve Spent On A Record?

What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a single album? I ask this because I had a flashback to a garage sale we had – the one and only garage sale I’ve hosted/been to. My parents were moving to a new house oh, nearly 20 years ago now. And they wanted to get rid […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged box-set, CD, Collection, Disc, Garage Sale, LP, Money, Rare, Record, Second-Hand, Tape, Vinyl, What’s the most money you’ve spent on a record?, What’s The Most You’ve Spent On A Record? ·

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October 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

What Matters Most Is The Music: It’s Not How You Listen – It’s That You Listen

Audio streaming has now beaten video streaming – or put simply, Spotify means more to people than YouTube. Okay, that’s putting it very simply but that’s – basically – the news. Record companies are only just cottoning on to YouTube, thinking video might help them sell audio. But audio is being taken for free – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged CD, http://offthetracks.co.nz/tortoise-the-catastrophist/, It's Not How You Listen - It's That You Listen, LP, Record, Spotify, Streaming, Tape, Vinyl, What Matters Most Is The Music, What Matters Most Is The Music: It's Not How You Listen - It's That You Listen, YouTube ·

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March 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Butcher Brown: GrownFolk

Butcher Brown GrownFolk Thrash Flow The Butcher Brown sound is mellow and warm and lovely – a floating feeling as background dinner-jazz is dirtied up just enough; some grit applied so that before your eyes (well, ears) you’re transported into the world of instrumental hip-hop. These are real-time, really played live loops – the sorts […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, All Purpose Music, Butcher Brown, Cassette, Grown Folk, GrownFolk, Nicholas Payton, Tape ·

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June 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 883

V/A, Tour of Duty 4 [OST] (1989) I had the first four of the Tour of Duty soundtracks on tape. A huge education – formative stuff. I was young, fascinated by all this music. And to this day the first volume remains a favourite for me, handy for DJ sets, good to play at home […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1960s, 1989, American Woman, Canned Heat, Chicago, Compilation, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Guess Who, Laura Nyro, LP, On The Road Again, Record, Roy Orbison, Save The Country, Skating, Soundtrack, Tape, The Vinyl Countdown # 883, There Won't Be Many Coming Home, To Love Somebody, Tour Of Duty, Tour Of Duty 4, Tour of Duty series, TV, V/A, Various Artists, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vinyl ·

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May 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 892

Billy Idol, Vital Idol (1985) I had the tape (different cover to the LP) and it used to play over and again in my big blue Volvo in my final years of school. I had a half-hour drive to the hockey field half-a-dozen times a week, got good at driving (and even better at hockey) […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1985, 1987, Below The Belt Mix, Billy Idol, Catch My Fall, Dancing With Myself, Flesh For Fantasy, Frontier Touring, Hot In The City, LP, Mony Mony, Rebel Yell, Record, Tape, The Vinyl Countdown # 892, To Be A Lover, Vinyl, White Wedding ·
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