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321) The Damned - Phantasmagoria
Damned Damned Damned was reviewed way back in April 2023 ( https://www.albumsin200words.co.uk/post/73-the-damned-damned-damned-damned )...
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Aug 272 min read
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320) Siouxsie & the Banshees - Join Hands
It was all going so well for Siouxsie and the Banshees, Hong Kong Garden was a top ten hit and the debut album The Scream had been a...
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Aug 243 min read
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319) Sad, Lovers & Giants - The Mirror Test
I started reading up on this band and thought ah that’s why I’d never heard of them they split in 1983, I was only twelve my huge vast...
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Aug 202 min read
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318) The Clash - London Calling
Warning this is one of those reviews that’s about me, not the album. If you have read my About page you will know my love (better half...
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Aug 172 min read
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317) Friends Again - Trapped and Unwrapped
James Grant has recently released a record with Bernard Butler and Norman Blake and criminally has never achieved the commercial success...
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Aug 132 min read
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316) Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
It’s 1996, things are not going well, we have mentioned divorce and stuff before but even then, I still had music to make me feel better...
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Aug 102 min read
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315) The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Damon Albarn had long decided Blur was not enough for him with the creation of Gorrilaz and other projects. Next we heard he was doing...
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Aug 62 min read
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314) John McKay - Sixes and Sevens
Many people have disappeared through the years who were part of bands, usually a search on the internet tells us something. The Banshees...
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Aug 32 min read
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313) Reverend and the Makers - A French Kiss In the Chaos
I used to listen to Reverend and the Makers John McClure when he was on Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable and earlier this year I liked he was...
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Jul 302 min read
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312) The Beta Band - The Three E.P's
We have discussed this before but by 1995 I realised I had totally cocked up my life, I got married in 1995, the marriage ended in 1997,...
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Jul 272 min read
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311) Edvard Graham Lewis - Alreet?
The DM is in – any chance you can review Alreet? by Edvard Graham Lewis. Yep, no problem, oh there is one, who the hell is Edvard Graham...
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Jul 232 min read
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310) The Fall New Facts Emerge
So here we are the final record, this is the reason I started the site as I wanted  to review The Fall’s whole career, where I will go...
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Jul 212 min read
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309) Ramona's Tea Party - Pour Your Heart Out
Where’s Tonsberg?  I ask because if you know well done as I hadn’t a clue. It’s in Norway and seemingly Ramona’s Tea Party are one of...
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Jul 162 min read
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308) Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
So, if Buzzcocks had never existed Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley would still have been thanked by the people of Manchester as they...
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Jul 132 min read
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307) Waxing Pathetic - Pop Your Figs!
As everyone knows with these world-famous reviews every album I receive as a request gets three listens, it’s the only fair way I decided...
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Jul 92 min read
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306) Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
I have mentioned I used to stick a blank tape on and record John Peel and would listen back the next day to see what nuggets he could...
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Jul 62 min read
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305) The Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once
Now this is a bit different this is a request where again I have no idea who this band are but straight away when reading on the internet...
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Jul 22 min read
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304) PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Way back in the mists of time I reviewed PJ Harvey Dry ( https://www.albumsin200words.co.uk/post/21-pj-harvey-dry ), a wonderful debut...
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Jun 292 min read
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303) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - A Jacknife to a Swan
Remember the old days when you flicked through the music press every week, between friends and people at college I probably saw NME,...
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Jun 252 min read
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302) Pulp - More
Pulp were huge and one of those rare breeds who not only stormed the charts, but the actual albums were good. Â However, they say...
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Jun 222 min read
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