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May 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer

In primary school, way back a hundred years ago or so, I learned about Mike Post. He was the guy that wrote the theme tune for Hill Street Blues. I loved that show. I didn’t really understand it so well, at first. But it was one of the shows I was allowed to stay up […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Composer, Composition, Film, Hill Street Blues, Jingle, LA Law, Law & Order, Magnum P.I., Mike Post, Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer, Television, The A-Team, Theme, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV ·

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May 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Daniel Pemberton: Slow Horses – Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack)

Daniel Pemberton Slow Horses: Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Video Programming LLC/Jackson River Films Limited, Polydor/Universal I’m a big fan of the show Slow Horses – genius writing, casting, excellent source material, the look and feel of it is perfect too; a winner. And Daniel Pemberton’s score is instantly part of that magical, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Apple, Daniel Pemberton, Daniel Pemberton: Slow Horses - Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack), Gary Oldman, Mick Jagger, Score, Season 1, Slow Horses, Slow Horses: Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack), Soundtrack, Strange Game, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV ·

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April 29, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Nicholas Britell: Succession – Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack)

Nicholas Britell Succession: Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) Home Box Office, Inc, under exclusive license to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Succession has stayed in my mind across the last four years – there was a long wait for season three (due to the pandemic halting filming) and as well as […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Billy Joel, Cover, HBO, Honesty, Instrumental, Jeremy Strong, Kendall Roy, Nicholas Britell, Nicholas Britell: Succession - Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack), Piano, Score, Season 3, Soundtrack, Strings, Succession, Succession - Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack), To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV ·

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April 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Those Days Were Ours: Part-Remembering Happy Days

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days! These days are ours… Happy Days was filmed in front of a live studio audience. I spent a huge amount of my childhood watching re-runs of Happy Days. I started watching it when the original series was winding up. But I didn’t know that. The timeline was all out of whack for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Happy Days, Television, Those Days Were Ours: Part-Remembering Happy Days, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV ·

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April 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Christopher Nicholas Bangs: WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack)

Christopher Nicholas Bangs WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Video Programming LLC, under exclusive license to Platoon Ltd WeCrashed is equal parts exhilarating and infuriating. As the WeWork company plummets to its inevitable crash WeWatch. WeSit. WeLoveIt. WeKnow that WeAre inherently better people. They are hideous on every level and it’s a unique strain of Stuff […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Apple, Apple Video Programming LLC, Christopher Nicholas Bangs, Christopher Nicholas Bangs: WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack), Series, Soundtrack, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV, TV Show, under exclusive license to Platoon Ltd, We Crashed, WeCrashed, WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack) ·

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April 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #11: The Young & The Restless by Various

The music haunted me somewhat. In a way. I remember it so deeply from childhood. I wasn’t a fan of the show. But my mum was – it had started a few years before I was born, probably in perfect time for my older brother to start pre-school, I guess. And also, it was scheduled […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Blog, Cotton's Theme, LP, Nadia's Theme, Record, Score, Soundtrack, TV, Vinyl, What A Good Score!, What A Good Score! – #11, What A Good Score! – #11: The Young & The Restless by Various ·

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March 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Bob Odenkirk Penguin Random House I love Bob Odenkirk. Have done since before I knew his name. He just kept popping up on things. That same face in everything. A mild smirk. A guy who had some sadness, some trauma etched onto him and laced all through his comedy. A guy […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobiography, Bob Odenkirk, Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Book, Book Review, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, David Cross, Director, Get A Life, Memoir, Movie, Mr. Show, Penguin Random House, SNL, Stage, Star, The Ben Stiller Show, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV, Writer, Writing ·

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February 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Joshua Moshier: The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)

Joshua Moshier The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Lakeshore Records I’m really enjoying the TV series The Shrink Next Door which tells the stranger-than-fiction true tale of a psychiatrist who manipulates his patient into friendship and hoodwinks him out of dollars and pads his own status. Everything about it is enjoyable – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Apple, Comedy, Dark, Drama, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Joshua Moshier, Joshua Moshier: The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack), Lakeshore Records, Paul Rudd, Score, Soundtrack, The Shrink Next Door, The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack), TV, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Will Ferrell ·

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February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

“Sounds Good” Turns 1: My Substack Newsletter Has Been Going For One Year

“Sounds Good!” on Substack is one. A year of writing and sending out newsletters. If you’re signed up and following you might remember that as recently as two weeks ago I shared all the Friday playlists in one go – 50 weeks of A Little Something For The Weekend playlists. I called that that anniversary […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged "Sounds Good" Turns 1, "Sounds Good" Turns 1: My Substack Newsletter Has Been Going For One Year, Blog, Books, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Movies, Music, My Substack Newsletter Has Been Going For One Year, Newlsetter, Playlists, Sounds Good, Subscription, Substack, TV, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Writing ·

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January 27, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of ‘Succession’

Succession debuted in 2018, created by British screenwriter and producer Jesse Armstrong. He was best known for the brilliant Peep Show – and his largely British writing team (you may remember I recommended Georgia Pritchard’s “anxiety memoir”) have, over three seasons, done the most amazing job of pitching black-as-the-inside-of-a-coffin-on-a-moonless-night comedy that satirises the Trump/Murdoch-level arrogance, […]
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January 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

The Crude Farce of After Life Season Three

I haven’t always had a problem with Ricky Gervais. I was a big fan of The Office – who wasn’t? I think Extras was possibly better, smarter. And, at the time, I was even into his stand-up comedy specials. Each one arriving with special-club buzz. They haven’t aged well. They weren’t really great at the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged After Life, Ashley Jensen, Blog, Comedian, Comedy, Crude Farce, Derek, Diane Morgan, Extras, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Movies, Netflix, Review, Ricky Gervais, S.3, Season Three, Television, The Crude Farce of After Life Season Three, The Office, TV, Twitter, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #3: Battlestar Galactica Season 3 by Bear McCreary

Bear McCreary’s score for the TV show Battlestar Galactica (season 3) came to me in a rather weird way. It was the era of blank CDs, making copies, giving someone a ‘burn’ – I was always loaning CDs and making copies for people to hear music, making mixtapes sometimes too. And I was receiving music […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged All Along The Watchtower, Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica Season 3, Bear McCreary, Blog, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Score, Season 3, Soundtrack, Television, TV, What A Good Score!, What A Good Score! – #3:, What A Good Score! – #3: Battlestar Galactica Season 3 by Bear McCreary ·
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