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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 112 min
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 72 min
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 42 min
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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Feb 292 min
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 262 min
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 222 min
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 192 min
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 152 min
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 122 min
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 82 min
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 52 min
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 11 min
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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Jan 292 min
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 252 min
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 222 min
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 182 min
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 152 min
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 112 min
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 82 min
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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