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Sep 25, 20242 min read
225) XTC - Drums and Wires
Everyone talks about the amount of music The Clash recorded over a few years well XTC decided they could match this releasing two albums...
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Sep 23, 20243 min read
224) Pale Blue Dots - Lots Of Dots
Huw Bunford (Bunf) has his place in music history as he was and remains the lead guitarist in Super Furry Animals and is currently...
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Sep 18, 20242 min read
223) The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
Ginger Wildheart (or David Walls as his birth certificate will say) was fired from The Quireboys but unlike many who disappear and miss...
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Sep 15, 20242 min read
222) Talking Heads - Remain In Light
When you read articles about what band, that still has all its original members, people would like to see reform, Talking Heads are...
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Sep 11, 20242 min read
221) Madness - Absolutely
If you know nothing about music and were asked to name five UK bands after The Beatles & The Stones I reckon Queen, Spice Girls and...
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Sep 8, 20242 min read
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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Sep 4, 20242 min read
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, 20242 min read
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, 20242 min read
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, 20242 min read
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, 20242 min read
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, Â mewithoutYou and...
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Aug 19, 20242 min read
214) Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
America had the four biggest stars of the 80s, Madonna, Prince, Jacko, and Springsteen. Â Three of them had all broken through in the UK...
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Aug 14, 20242 min read
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 11, 20242 min read
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 7, 20242 min read
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, 20242 min read
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, 20242 min read
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 28, 20242 min read
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, 20242 min read
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 21, 20242 min read
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. Â I got on with him...
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