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220) The Fall - Are You Are Missing Winner
My last line for The Unutterable was “A strong record then showing that sticking with the same band can lead to a bit of consistency, you...
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- 6 days ago
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219) Gary Numan - Splinter
Ah Gary Numan remember him? The odd clip would appear of him singing his big hits Are Friends Electric? and Cars and then it had been all...
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- Sep 1
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218) Everlasting Yeah - Staying Cool Staying Free
Okay I know I have done it to death, but That Petrol Emotion should have been huge. Listen to their last album and then listen to Oasis...
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- Aug 28
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217) Hifi Sean & David McAlmont - Daylight
I’m from Motherwell so Bellshill is two minutes from my house, so I know exactly where Sean Dickson comes from. He managed to get John...
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- Aug 25
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216) Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Here we are all these years later Liam is having number one albums with John Squire and touring for the thirtieth anniversary of this...
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- Aug 22
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215) Ween - White Pepper
What I have realised is its American bands I do not know. Reviews have been requested for Neutral Milk Hotel, Sloan, mewithoutYou and...
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- Aug 19
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214) Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
America had the four biggest stars of the 80s, Madonna, Prince, Jacko, and Springsteen. Three of them had all broken through in the UK...
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- Aug 14
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213) Cardiacs - The Seaside
The Cardiacs are one of those bands that I have heard of and had never listened to a note. Until I researched them online (yep, these...
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- Aug 12
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212) REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Automatic for the People had taken them into the stadiums and Monster kept them there but there was a general feeling that Monster was...
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- Aug 8
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211) Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire
Review 183 was The Beatles where I explained I don’t have the universal love for them that most do. As a result, I have never listened to...
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- Aug 5
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210) The Fall - The Unutterable
Not for the first time when it looked all over Mr Smith had managed to bring it back round after the pretty excellent Marshall Suite....
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- Jul 31
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209) Sextile - Push
I ran a poll on X/Facebook called #AlbumsDecade where people voted for their favourite record for each year, many regulars took part, and...
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- Jul 29
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308) Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes have taken a bit of a kicking recently re Denise Johnson and Duffy and is a grim situation all round. I...
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- Jul 24
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207) Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain
As we have established in my teens, I knew everything about music. Yes, everything and to be clear I thought Grant Lee Buffalo and...
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- Jul 22
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206) Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent
When I went to college at sixteen, I met the first openly gay person I had ever met, like me he was only sixteen. I got on with him...
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- Jul 18
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205) The Church - Starfish
People at work tell me that most of the bands I am into they have never heard of, and I think but how can you have not heard of them....
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- Jul 15
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204) The Ramones
I went on holiday in April and was with my much better half in a very trendy designer clothes shop purchasing t shirts so my stunning...
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- Jul 11
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203) The The - Dusk
God’s sake he had kept us waiting four years for this one he surely wouldn’t go that long again, would he? The same line up from Mind...
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- Jul 8
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202) Morrissey - Your Arsenal
It’s no secret that Morrissey had struggled to fit in throughout his life until a certain Johnny Marr knocked on his door. The Smiths...
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- Jul 3
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201) Super Furry Animals - Radiator
We have rightly praised Super Furry Animals way back in October 2023 with their excellent debut Fuzzy Logic Released barely fifteen...
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