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161) Spiritualized - Let it Come Down
Jason Pierce has been releasing music since 1986 first with the influential Spacemen 3 with Sonic Boom before striving out on his own...
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Feb 14, 20242 min read
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160) The Fall - Middle Class Revolt
Things have been working well for several albums with the rhythm section of Hanley and Wolstencroft so let’s cause friction as they bring...
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Feb 11, 20242 min read
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159) Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue
Cathal Coughlan had earned praise, but sadly not sales with Sean O’Hagan in their band Microdisney but they decided to go their separate...
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Feb 7, 20242 min read
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158) PIL Happy
John Lydon has always been a strange one for me, no doubt he has produced some excellent music, and you cannot fault him for looking...
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Feb 5, 20242 min read
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157) Rain Parade Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
I had never heard of Dave Roback but here he is featuring in a second review, I had heard of his band Mazzy Star who featured in review...
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Feb 1, 20241 min read
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156) Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground are one of the most influential bands ever who released five albums (although all original members were gone by...
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Jan 28, 20242 min read
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155) The Woodentops - Giant
The Woodentops have been around for forty years. In that time, they have released three albums. That does that do not make them the...
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Jan 25, 20242 min read
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154) B-52s
Athens, Georgia must be some musical place as both REM and the B-52’s emerged from there. B-52’s is a three-way lead with the vocals...
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Jan 22, 20242 min read
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153) Killing Joke
Every time a Killing Joke album was released, I bought it or in later years downloaded. They were always a band I intended to see; I had...
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Jan 17, 20242 min read
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152) Hamell On Trial - Choochtown
I’m eighteen, my grandparents are up visiting from England, I had fell through the door at midnight as my gran was coming back from the...
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Jan 15, 20242 min read
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151) David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
I ran a poll about a year ago, every letter of the alphabet and you name your  favourite band/artist then did quarter finals etc. I fully...
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Jan 11, 20242 min read
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150) The Fall - The Infotainment Scan
No messing about no sackings, no fresh faces and no re-hiring and guess what they are in the UK Top Ten for the first time ever. Number...
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Jan 8, 20242 min read
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149) Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
If you have more than a passing interest in music, you will have heard of Dead Kennedys. You probably know the single Holidays in...
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Jan 4, 20242 min read
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148) Icicle Works - If You Want To Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
I was aware of The Icicle Works as I liked their singles Love is a Wonderful Colour and Understanding Jane. I had bought Ian McNabb’s...
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Dec 28, 20232 min read
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147) The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Shane has recently left us I saw The Pogues at a few Christmas concerts and at the Barrowlands Joe Strummer and Kirsty MacColl were...
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Dec 26, 20232 min read
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146) The Devlins - Drift
The Devlins, nope I had never heard of them. Drift was their debut album released back in 1993. I am twenty-two, remember the fountain of...
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Dec 21, 20232 min read
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145) The Clash
We have reviewed the Pistols, Damned and The Stranglers debuts but now, in my opinion let’s get to the best UK punk debut as we have the...
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Dec 18, 20232 min read
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144) Faust - So Far
Faust are part of the early 70’s experimentation artists from Germany like Neu! Can and Kraftwerk where electronic music and avant-garde...
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Dec 14, 20231 min read
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143) That Petrol Emotion End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues
Sixteen months on from the injustice that Babble had not made them the biggest band in the UK That Petrol Emotion were ready to go again,...
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Dec 11, 20232 min read
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142) Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Pulp were one of the UK’s biggest bands after Different Class and Jarvis Cocker had become even more famous after wiggling his bum at...
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Dec 7, 20232 min read
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