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247) Frank Turner - Sleep Is for the Week
Frank Turner you would have to say fair play to him as over a seventeen-year solo career he has released ten solo albums slowly building...
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246) The Strokes - Is This It?
We are back in 2001, and I had recently hit the huge old age of thirty, at nearly fifty-four I cannot believe how young people in my...
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Dec 42 min read
245) The Ruts - The Crack
We have already reviewed a Ruts album with review 163 of Animal Now but that is a much different beast as the band were slowly finding...
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Dec 22 min read
244) Deacon Blue - Raintown
I may have mentioned that I live in Glasgow. Most people from this city are proud to be from it. In recent years, the centre has taken a...
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Nov 272 min read
243) Psychedelic Furs - Psychedelic Furs
Review 114 already established I had never heard of the Psychedelic Furs until Pretty in Pink appeared in the John Hughes film of the...
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Nov 252 min read
242) Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys could do no wrong, first album go for a look with donkey jackets and storm to number one with Geno then let’s go with dungarees and...
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Nov 212 min read
241) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
James Murphy claimed that The Fall were like The Beatles to him so obviously I warm to the man as he obviously has impeccable taste in...
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Nov 172 min read
240) The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
In our last review for The Fall, we had Spencer Birtwistle only lasting one album before being replaced by Dave Milner, well guess what...
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Nov 142 min read
239) Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - 101 Damnations
You do not expect a Carter album to start with a hymn but that’s exactly what we have here with The Road to Donestos before we get...
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Nov 112 min read
238) The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
I have reviewed one Cure album so far and I awarded The Head on the Door a ten as it has always been my favourite Cure album. The...
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Nov 72 min read
237) This Mortal Coil - Blood
In about 2000 a new lady joined the office I worked in, she was incredibly quiet and shy, nothing wrong with that, she was pleasant...
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Nov 42 min read
236) Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Hard to believe but I am not the youngster I once was, I am fifty-four shortly and the music I listen to is mainly from the past. So far,...
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Oct 312 min read
235) Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out
What have Joe Strummer, Pulp, and Natalie Imbruglia got in common? They have all been involved with The Longpigs is the obvious answer...
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Oct 282 min read
234) Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?
I have told you that I fancied Tracy Tracy from The Primitives, I was also a big fan of Kim Wilde, Susan Sulley, Belinda Carlisle, Tina...
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Oct 242 min read
233) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Music is important to people, a pleasant distraction to others or a load of rubbish if you are my mother whenever she entered my bedroom...
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Oct 212 min read
232) Human League - Dare
My partner and I do not agree on music for my love of The Fall, she goes Deacon Blue, for Liz Frazer for me she would go Whitney Houston...
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Oct 162 min read
231) Blancmange - Happy Families
Blancmange formed in 1979 with lead singer Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe on keyboards releasing three albums before splitting in 1986,...
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Oct 132 min read
230) The Fall - The Real New Fall LP
For all his awkwardness Mark likes a bit of tradition as he clearly enjoys being married, the divorce bit can be awkward (I may write...
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Oct 92 min read
229) The Men They Couldn't Hang - How Green Is the Valley
The Men They Couldn’t Hang are this year celebrating their fortieth anniversary. They play Glasgow every year-round about Christmas time...
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Oct 72 min read
228) Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Five
Okay just to warn people I personally think Goodbye Mr MacKenzie are Scotland’s greatest band so maybe biased, but I am correct. Review...
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