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November 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stardust: Film

Stardust Director: Gabriel Range Salon Pictures / Wilding Pictures / IFC Films Stardust is a little movie. That could have been fine. There are some wonderful small pictures. But Stardust is also a terrible movie. Plagued by many things – not just a lack of Bowie’s music, and distancing from the estate. For a start, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biopic, Bowie, David Bowie, Film, Film Review, Gabriel Range, Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Movie, Movie Review, Stardust, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Ziggy Stardust ·

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March 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 200 The Last Cigarette In The World

I watch another boat in the harbour sail out Sitting on my own in the bay By the time you get to China on that slow ship I’ll have bitten all my nails and crumbled into the carpet   You had no clear idea of what you’re looking for You only knew you couldn’t stay […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 200, Cigarettes, Death, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Ghost Story, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hawker St, Jon Mcleary, Lyric, Music, Oriental Bay, Rock'n'Roll Suicide, Smoke, Smoking, Song, Songwriting, Spines, Suicide, The Ghost, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLearThe Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLearyThe Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 200, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 200 The Last Cigarette In The World, The Last Cigarette In The World, Two Hundred, War Stories, War Stories # 200, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Weekly Column, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Ziggy Stardust ·

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August 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Wearing The Inside Out: How Often Have You Actually Destroyed A Record Through Overplay and/or Undercare or Is It Just A Line You Say To Make It Seem Like You Listened To It Heaps?

Last year I spoke to three different people in three different music stores in the first days following David Bowie’s death and all of them have a version of the same story: the majority of people that went in to inquire about Ziggy Stardust or The Man Who Sold The World or Hunky Dory or […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Damage, David Bowie, Hunky Dory, LP, Overplay, Records, The Man Who Sold The World, Tonight, Vinyl, Wear, Wearing The Inside Out, Wearing The Inside Out: How Often Have You Actually Destroyed A Record Through Overplay and/or Undercare of Is It Just A Line You Say To Make It Seem Like You Listened To It Heaps?, Wearing The Inside Out: How Often Have You Actually Destroyed A Record Through Overplay and/or Undercare or Is It Just A Line You Say To Make It Seem Like You Listened To It Heaps?, Worn, Worn Out, Ziggy Stardust ·

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January 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. David Bowie

David Bowie (b. David Jones, January 8, 1947) was a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, painter and actor. He was an icon. He remains that. We throw about words like ‘Legend’ and ‘Icon’ too easily these days. It’s hard to think of just one word to encapsulate Bowie. But we could use the word ‘Artist’ – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged All Class, Artist, Bowie, Class Act, David Bowie, Eulogy, Genius, Goblin King, Iconic David Bowie all class to the very end, Jareth, Labyrinth, Legend, R.I.P., R.I.P. David Bowie, Stuff.co.nz, The Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust ·

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August 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1310

David Bowie, Stage (1978) You know I only got hip to this album when it was reissued on CD a wee while back now, maybe 10 years ago or so. I hadn’t heard it before then. I knew a lot of the material, obviously, but not these versions. I had plenty of David Bowie albums […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Be My Wife, Berlin Trilogy, Concert, David Bowie, Double, Heroes, Live, Low, LP, Stage, Vinyl, Ziggy Stardust ·

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April 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1520

David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (1974) “This ain’t rock’n’roll…this is GENOCIDE!” One of my favourite David Bowie albums – in as much as I have half a dozen of them. The post-Ziggy Orwellian concept-album/rock-opera with Bowie’s own shitty guitar (which I love). I’ve been loving, lately, seeing the straight line with Bowie albums (not the same […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1974, 1984, David Bowie, Diamond Dogs, George Orwell, LP, Vinyl, Ziggy Stardust ·

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April 11, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1536

David Bowie, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) My favourite songs are Five Years and Lady Stardust – but man, what a way to start, the first three songs: Five Years, Soul Love and Moonage Daydream. All good, all good! In fact Moonage Daydream was the thing that […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1972, David Bowie, Five Years, Lady Stardust, LP, Moonage Daydream, Rock'n'Roll Suicide, Soul Love, Starman, Suffragette City, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Vinyl, Ziggy Stardust ·

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January 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1656

David Bowie, Scary Monsters (1980) A friend bought Ziggy Stardust and shortly after made the leap straight to this. At the time all I had was the Changesbowie compilation – and I was happy with that. I knew the Let’s Dance album too – and then I started to delve (back) in to the world […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Ashes To Ashes, Changesbowie, David Bowie, Fashion, Let's Dance, LP, Scary Monsters, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), Up The Hill Backwards, Vinyl, Ziggy Stardust ·

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September 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1835

David Bowie, Heathen (2002) Some people rave about Heathen, some are not so sure – there’s obviously a huge amount of David Bowie fans who gave up on him years ago. It’s a perfectly acceptable/realistic approach, after all, to only listen to Bowie across the 1970s – it is a stunning body of work. So […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Cactus, David Bowie, Earthling, Heathen, Let's Dance, Outside, Reality, Scary Monsters, Sunday, Vinyl, Ziggy Stardust ·

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