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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Ween: Live At Five In New York ’95 (ep)

Ween Live At Five In New York ’95 (ep) Happenstance Ween. One of the greatest musical entities of the last 30 years. Mad. Weird. Wonderful. Often all three at once. And sometimes very, very bad too – but usually in the very best way. When Ween broke up I was gutted. Even though the two […]
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November 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday:  33 – 5 O’Clock Worlds

I’m a big fan of the 5pm Friday music; the perfect album – or playlist – something you put on for the walk home for work, maybe to soundtrack the first pour or even let you drift off for a wee quick snore; some music to celebrate the end of the working week. As the […]
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September 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 253

Rare Earth, Willie Remembers… (1972) Rare Earth was the first all-white band to have a hit on the Motown label. They had some hits, even, by covering things by The Temptations – you know basically white-washing the whitest of the black labels. The woke crowd would have a field-day with this shit today. And (probably) […]
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December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 4 – Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums

Not all live albums are created equally – many are built in the studio after with overdubs, some just feature crowd-noise endlessly, Neil Young’s brand new live album has him substituting out the crowd for animal noise. There are some great, great live albums out there – where the energy of the crowd is so […]
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September 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Freeman: Freeman

Freeman Freeman Partisan Records You may remember him as Gene Ween – from Ween – but now he’s a free man, and if it’s death to Gene Ween, as opening track Covert Discretion sorta suggests, or at least confirms the toll of playing that role, then it’s certainly a case of long live Aaron Freeman […]
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January 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 5: Ween, Wellington, 2008

Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo are known respectively as Gene and Dean Ween – silly monikers for serious musicians who have navigated their career from a position below the radar, subverting and mimicking all manner of rock music. To say that Ween is a band that subverts pop music is to miss the point somewhat, […]
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May 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: King Tuff (April 30, Wgtn)

King Tuff Bodega Tuesday, April 30 I first heard King Tuff’s eponymous album, released last year in what is often the best way to discover music – it arrived, to review; I knew nothing about it but given the connection to SubPop Records it went straight to the top of the pile. And it became […]
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January 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1688

Dire Straits, On Every Street (1991) I saw Dire Straits on the tour for this album – the band’s last world tour. And man I loved it; I loved Dire Straits at that point in my life; one of my favourite bands. And all things Mark Knopfler was involved in/with. I had the soundtracks, the […]
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