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Tracks Of Our Tears: 50 Songs That Make Quietus Writers & Artists Cry

Following this week's Quietus Essay exploring why music makes people cry, the Quietus writers and several artists select and discuss the songs that make them well up

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Rare Essences: Andy Gill Of Gang Of Four’s Favourite Records

Five years ago, following the release of their eighth album, What Happens Next, Andy Gill of Gang Of Four talked Bryan Brussee through the picks of his record collection, both albums and individual tracks
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One Vision: John Robins’ Favourite Albums

John Robins, Edinburgh Award-winning comic and co-host of 5 Live's new Friday afternoon show, gives Simon Price perhaps the first Baker's Dozen to include both Chris De Burgh and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

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Songs Are Powerful Things: Marry Waterson’s Baker’s Dozen

Marry Waterson might have been born into a folk dynasty but that didn't stop her becoming a biker. With a new LP out and her mother and uncle's Bright Phoebus LP recently reissued, she guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite LPs from The Beatles to The Band and Billie Holiday

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Turning Points: Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 13 Favourite Albums

From Beethoven to The Beach Boys via King Kong: The Musical, these are the 13 pieces of music that shaped Yusuf/Cat Stevens as an artist
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Denial Of The Species: Lee Buford Of The Body’s Favourite Albums

With the UK leg of their European tour drawing to a close with sets in Bristol tonight and on the Quietus' Desertfest stage tomorrow, Lee Buford of the none-bleaker American sludge duo picks out 13 all-time top records and pens us his own Baker's Dozen
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Grit In One’s Third Eye: Robyn Hitchcock’s Baker’s Dozen

English songwriter and frontman of The Soft Boys, The Venus Three and The Egyptians, Robyn Hitchcock leads Julian Marszalek through his most played LPs
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The Golden Past: Marianne Faithfull’s Favourite Albums

Following the recent reissue of her landmark album Broken English, and in advance of her 50th anniversary as a performer next year, Marianne Faithfull tells Joel McIver about her 13 favourite LPs

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