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December 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: December 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. For my final session of 2021 I found two albums that featured covers, moving the original songs to solo piano; two […]
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November 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: In His Room

Brian Wilson in his sandbox, making art. The grit between his toes calms the flitters in his heart, at least momentarily. Tearily, he’ll circle Gershwin, wash through Mozart, change lanes to get ahead of McCartney. Smartly, he goes wherever his mind takes him. Sadly, that’s far too many places. But we get round, round, get […]
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November 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Brian Wilson: At My Piano

Brian Wilson At My Piano Decca I can just imagine so many reviews missing the point, chuckling off at the redundancy of an instrumental set of Beach Boys songs, arguing that the sun-kissed classics need those vocal harmonies to really come alive.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, At My Piano, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Brian Wilson: At My Piano, Classical, Decca, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Instrumental, Piano, Solo, The Beach Boys, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 67

The Beach Boys, Wild Honey (1967) I have a few more Beach Boys albums to go but this was a nice find, recently. My favourite period for the band is 1967-1973 – they were out of the surfing phase and couldn’t rely on Brian at least not for brand new material all the time; so […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Aren't You Glad, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Darlin', I Was Made To Love Her, LP, R'n'B, Record, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 67, Vinyl, Wild Honey ·

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March 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Murry Wilson & Snow: The Break Away EP

Murry Wilson & Snow The Break Away EP Omnivore Recordings Murry Wilson shares the prize with Joe Jackson (father of the Jackson 5, not the super singer/songwriter) as one of the world’s worst Professional Fathers – these manager/Svengali types that invented the cliché of channeling their own rage through their sons (and daughters) and being […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Archive, Beach Boys, Break Away, Demo, EP, Murry Wilson, Murry Wilson & Snow, Snow, The Beach Boys, The Break Away EP, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 153

Beach Boys, Good Vibrations (1975) You know you’re one of the tragic few – a real fan with more dollars than sense as they say when you buy a compilation like this. To be fair I bought this for $2 and it would only have ever been a bargain at half the price. The Beach […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1975, Beach Boys, Compilation, Fingers Keepers, Good Vibrations, LP, Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow, Record, The Beach Boys, The Monster Mash, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 153, Vinyl ·

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February 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Beach Boys: 1969 – I’m Going Your Way (ep)

The Beach Boys 1969: I’m Going Your Way (ep) CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) / A Capitol Records Release; UMG Recordings, Inc. After the amazing vault-clearing, copyright-extending treats of the last couple of years in Beach Boys world – including not one, but two studio doubles and a live set all from 1968 and this brilliant […]
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January 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 34 – 2020 – 1st Edition

It’s a new year – welcome, belatedly to 2020. You’ve arrived already of course, but here now is the first edition of the staggeringly inconsistent Five Songs For Friday for the new year. No theme. Just songs that are on my mind at the start of this year. Or on my turntable. Or in my […]
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November 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 214

The Beach Boys, Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2 (1967) So many Beach Boys compilations. And I believe I’ve given a few away. But this was definitely one of the first Beach Boys records I owned – I have a feeling it was in fact the first. Which is probably why I’m still hanging […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Beach Boys, Best Of, Best of The Beach Boys, Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2, Compilation, Greatest Hits, Little Saint Nick, LP, The Beach Boys, The Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 214, Vinyl, Vol.2, Volume 2, When I Grow Up (To Be A Man), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15 – Murry Wilson, “The Many Moods of Murry Wilson”

Murry Wilson, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson, 1967 Murry Wilson. Not a nice guy. Bitter hack – who was sure he was “a genius too”. Murry Wilson. Pretty sure he was the manager of The Beach Boys for a lot longer than he ever was – and written up as a bad guy who […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1967, Beach Boys, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Crap Albums I Love # 15, Easy Listening, Instrumental, Lawrence Welk, Mantovani, Many Moods, Murry, Murry Wilson, Shit That's Good, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15 – Murry Wilson, The Beach Boys, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson, Wilson, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Wind Chimes

What’s the last song that made you feel like you actually stopped existing? That was the question. And there’s only one answer. That one by The Beach Boys… The one that goes, “On the warm breeze the  little bells/Tinkle like wind chimes Though it’s hard I try not to look at my wind chimes Now […]
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October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 231

The Beach Boys, Rock And Roll Music [Single] (1976) It’s when you don’t really care about the A-side or the B-side and you own the parent album which has both songs on it anyway (and that’s also not great) that you realise you’re in pretty deep. This is me, in real time, with my latest […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 15 Big Ones, 1976, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry, Covers, EP, LP, Rock And Roll Music, Rock N Roll Music, Single, The Beach Boys, The TM Song, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 231, Vinyl ·
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