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176) House Of All - Continuum
Remember a year ago we had the debut album from House Of All. If you don’t then give it a go as it was the album of 2023. They have...
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Apr 7, 20242 min read
175) Redskins - Neither Washington Nor Moscow
You speak to people of a similar age about music, and you may mention a band, or artist and they say they have heard of them but never...
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Apr 3, 20242 min read
174) Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
The Manic arrived all over the music press and Richey Edwards was good for a quote. No one will forget the picture after he carved “4...
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Apr 1, 20242 min read
173) The Armoury Show - Waiting for the Floods
We have had reviews of Magazine and PIL where John McGeoch has been mentioned and let’s not forget his immense contribution to Siouxsie &...
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Mar 27, 20242 min read
172) Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
Depeche Mode were on a roll; Alan Wilder had been in the band for five years now. His love of the studio and Martin Gore confident in his...
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Mar 24, 20242 min read
171) Blue Nile - Hats
As the Fall said repetition, repletion, repetition. We have had Love and Money and Goodbye Mr MacKenzie reviews where I have informed you...
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Mar 21, 20242 min read
170) The Fall - Cerebral Caustic
The usual update in personnel is needed. Bruce Dickinson went back to Iron Maiden, and they got even bigger, and Rat Scabies has just...
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Mar 18, 20242 min read
169) mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Glasgow, you may know has a wee thing about religion, some pubs up here can be either Celtic or Rangers pubs and I have stood in many...
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Mar 14, 20242 min read
168) Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
In February I went to see Lust for Life. You will have heard of Katie Puckrick, Glen Matlock, Clem Burke, and Kevin Armstrong and if they...
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Mar 10, 20242 min read
167) Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
I have already explained how a young lady I worked with introduced me to the Go-Betweens with a compilation tape and I quickly became,...
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Mar 6, 20242 min read
166) Skids - Scared To Dance
Stuart Adamson has not been with us for over twenty years, I was surprised when I read that as I had not realised, he had been gone so...
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Mar 3, 20242 min read
165) Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger
So obviously we all have dreams, mine is to write a book and get it published. I’ve obviously not done it, but I know my level so have...
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Feb 28, 20242 min read
164) The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
They produced four studio albums, and their legacy is still as strong nearly forty years since they split. You can love a band but for...
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Feb 25, 20242 min read
163) Ruts DC - Animal Now
The Ruts had a problem as sadly their lead singer Malcom Owen had died of an overdose age just twenty-six. The band had decided to...
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Feb 21, 20242 min read
162) The Charlatans - Some Friendly
A thirty-odd-year career, thirteen albums, nine making the top ten, a prison sentence, two tragic deaths and the lead singer becoming a...
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Feb 18, 20242 min read
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
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
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
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
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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