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234) Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?
I have told you that I fancied Tracy Tracy from The Primitives, I was also a big fan of Kim Wilde, Susan Sulley, Belinda Carlisle, Tina...
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Oct 28, 20242 min read
233) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Music is important to people, a pleasant distraction to others or a load of rubbish if you are my mother whenever she entered my bedroom...
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Oct 24, 20242 min read
232) Human League - Dare
My partner and I do not agree on music for my love of The Fall, she goes Deacon Blue, for Liz Frazer for me she would go Whitney Houston...
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Oct 21, 20242 min read
231) Blancmange - Happy Families
Blancmange formed in 1979 with lead singer Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe on keyboards releasing three albums before splitting in 1986,...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
230) The Fall - The Real New Fall LP
For all his awkwardness Mark likes a bit of tradition as he clearly enjoys being married, the divorce bit can be awkward (I may write...
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Oct 13, 20242 min read
229) The Men They Couldn't Hang - How Green Is the Valley
The Men They Couldn’t Hang are this year celebrating their fortieth anniversary. They play Glasgow every year-round about Christmas time...
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Oct 9, 20242 min read
228) Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Five
Okay just to warn people I personally think Goodbye Mr MacKenzie are Scotland’s greatest band so maybe biased, but I am correct. Review...
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Oct 7, 20242 min read
227) BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth
BC Camplight is Brian James Christinzio an American based over here in the UK ands The Last Rotation of Earth is his sixth solo record,...
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Oct 2, 20242 min read
226) Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
So, in Review 182 I confessed I struggled with The Beatles as though I like their stuff, I just cannot love them like so many do. The...
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Sep 29, 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 25, 20242 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 23, 20243 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 18, 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 15, 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 11, 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 8, 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 4, 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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Sep 1, 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 28, 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 25, 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, mewithoutYou and...
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Aug 22, 20242 min read
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