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189) Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
In 1999 I was still avidly searching the music press for anything and suddenly Flaming Lips were everywhere, I had heard of them, but...
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May 202 min
188) Electrafixion - Burned
Review ninety-nine looked at Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation which is an album that has been consigned to history as Ian McCulloch was...
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May 162 min
187) Cocteau Twins - Treasure
I used to record John Peel on a 90-minute tape and then listen back and if he played a song, I liked I copied it onto my playlist tapes...
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May 122 min
186) Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple appeared in 1996 and won numerous praise and awards. I listened to her first album, Tidal. There was talent clearly but...
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May 92 min
185) Slow Readers Club - Cavalcade
Everyone has had that moment when their parent has said “What’s that you are listening to?” You respond and the parent replies “never...
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May 62 min
184) Lush - Lovelife
Music biographies can be bland and not really tell you much more than you already know. Step forward Miki Berenyi with her autobiography...
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May 22 min
183) Josh Ritter - So Runs The World Away
I know the name, nothing more. I had a read online and found out he studied in Edinburgh, hope he had nights through in Glasgow, imagine...
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Apr 292 min
182) The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
I get what they did, I really do. I understand Lennon McCartney writing their own songs was a revelation and clearly George Harrison was...
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Apr 242 min
181) Wrens - Secaucus
Like many things in my life what I know about Wrens could be written on the back of a postage stamp. When I do my usual shake of the head...
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Apr 222 min
180) The Fall - The Light User Syndrome
We knew Dave Bush was for the off and sure enough he received his letter advising him he had been sacked. In came Julia Nagle, and this...
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Apr 182 min
179) Radiohead - Pablo Honey
A band with nine studio albums to their name and record sales in excess of twenty million Radiohead are one of the most successful band...
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Apr 152 min
178) Pet Shop Boys - Please
It’s the mid 80’s I’m home from school fourteen or fifteen and remember if you have read any previous reviews the biggest expert on music...
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Apr 102 min
177) White Stripes - Elephant
The White Stripes were one of those bands that I could take or leave. I would hear something and like it but never felt compelled to buy...
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Apr 72 min
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 32 min
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 12 min
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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Mar 282 min
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 252 min
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 212 min
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 182 min
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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