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May 8, 20242 min read
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 5, 20242 min read
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 2, 20242 min read
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 28, 20242 min read
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 24, 20242 min read
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 21, 20242 min read
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 18, 20242 min read
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 15, 20242 min read
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 10, 20242 min read
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 7, 20242 min read
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 3, 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 1, 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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Mar 27, 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 24, 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 21, 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 18, 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 14, 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 10, 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 6, 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 3, 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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