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Spotlighting the impact of cultural landmarks

25 Years On: Angus Batey On Liquid Swords By GZA

Angus Batey delves into his own extensive interview archive to reassess Liquid Swords a quarter century on

45 Years On: Funkadelic’s Let’s Take It To The Stage Revisited

Ned Raggett asks... no, commands... that you get off your ass and jam: in celebration of Funkadelic's 1975 album Let's Take It To The Stage

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30 Years On: X-Clan’s To The East Blackwards Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at an album which - post Ferguson - has as much resonance today as it did when it came out.

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45 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited

Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads

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At Breaking Point: Black Sabbath’s Sabotage Revisited

Joe Banks examines the point at which everything started to go wrong for Black Sabbath... even though they were still getting it right

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Believe In A Land Of Love: New Order’s Low-Life 35 Years On

Julian Marszalek casts his mind back to teenage years in Slough to remember the record that saw New Order continue their transition from the monochrome of Joy Division to the bright lights of the 1980s dancefloor

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New Colour: Coldcut’s Journeys By DJ – 70 Minutes of Madness

Joe Clay speaks to the members of Coldcut to discuss their landmark DJ mix album 70 Minutes Of Madness... or, as Jon More has it "It’s a drunken man’s stagger home"

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Morning Glory: Fugazi’s Repeater Revisited

Angus Batey celebrates Fugazi's debut full-length LP - a record that still sounds urgent and vital 30 years on

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Revisiting Curtis Mayfield’s There’s No Place Like America Today

David Bennun looks back 45 years at a much underrated Curtis Mayfield album

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25 Years On: Faith No More’s King For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime

Jeremy Allen revisits the FNM fan favourite

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30 Years On: Terminal Cheesecake’s Angels in Pigtails Revisited

Russell Cuzner talks to Russell Smith about the weirdest album in the very weird career of Terminal Cheesecake

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25 Years On: Me Against The World By 2Pac Revisited

Angus Batey looks behind the enshrined myth of Tupac Shakur and finds an album which is more compromise than triumph

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Keepin’ It Dirty: A celebration of ODB’s Return to the 36 Chambers

Cian Traynor re-appraises a hip hop anomaly by speaking to some of those who knew Ol' Dirty Bastard best

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Coke & Wet: The Power Station Versus Arcadia By Simon Price

35 years on, Simon Price revisits the undeclared war between Arcadia, who made "the most pretentious album ever", and The Power Station, who made "the most cocainey album ever"; and asks who, if anyone, was the winner

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35 Years On: The Sisters Of Mercy’s First And Last And Always Revisited

Julian Marszalek looks back 35 years to the hit album that shouldn't have been and nearly wasn't

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Is Above The Law’s Livin’ Like Hustlers The Best Gangsta Rap Album?

Angus Batey reps for ATL's Livin' Like Hustlers as not only the best gangsta rap album but g-funk ground zero

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As American As Capote: The Cramps’ Songs The Lord Taught Us Revisited

Julian Marszalek revisits The Cramps' debut and finds a glorious, hermetically sealed world of dark delights and puerile pursuits

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World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends

Though The Bends has since been overshadowed by what followed, its release 25 years ago found Radiohead on the cusp of stardom. Wyndham Wallace joins them on a journey from their early days to their inevitable worldwide breakthrough

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35 Years On: The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at The Smiths' second album and how this record changed his life

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25 Years On: And The Circus Leaves Town By Kyuss Revisited

Dean Brown revisits the stoner rock giants' flawed but rewarding swansong

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25 Years On: Tricky’s Maxinquaye Revisited

David Bennun interviewed Tricky several times for Melody Maker in the 1990s and reviewed Maxinquaye on its release. He assesses how his relationship to this landmark album has changed over the intervening decades

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Miles Davis Live In 1975: Agharta Versus Pangaea

Two Miles Davis concerts, recorded on one day in Japan 45 years ago, produced two different albums, Agharta and Pangaea. Angus Batey compares them - and wades deeper into the Davis archives without a map or a functioning compass

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25 Years On: The Necks’ Sex Revisited By Kate Hennessy

Kate Hennessy revisits the debut LP by Australian jazz improvisers, The Necks. Band portrait courtesy of Camile Walsh Photography

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Scorched Earth: The The’s Mind Bomb Revisited

Matt Johnson may have set out to blow your mind on The The's third LP in 1989 - but the effects ended up being much more devastating, says David Bennun

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The Resurrection Show: The Stone Roses’ Second Coming Revisited

Angus Batey reps hard for the Stone Roses' much maligned second album

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There Are No Horizons: The Holy Bible At 25, By Taylor Parkes

Taylor Parkes picks through the bones of one of the best rock albums of the 1990s and the artistic apex of Manic Street Preachers' history. Photos courtesy of Mitch Ikeda

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Obvious Injustice: The Jungle Brothers’ Done By The Forces Of Nature

30 years after it was released, Angus Batey revisits The Jungle Brothers' Done By The Forces Of Nature, and argues that it is a record that did more than most to explore the possibilities of hip hop

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Cold Comfort: Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson’s Winter In America

Tristan Bath heads back to the 1974 collaborative record and finds an album-cum-social document wrongly resigned to cult status, one whose message remains undimmed 40 years on

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Symphonies Of Sickness By Carcass 25 Years On

Ned Raggett asks you to witness the sickness as he looks back at the groundbreaking second album by Carcass

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Moment In Time: Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Revisited

Nick Reed returns to Genesis' hefty 1974 double album opus, and finds, in-between the near-incomprehensible narrative and patchy second disc, a record that offers many fine moments and stakes a good claim to being the pinnacle of prog excess

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Most Fabulous: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s Orange Revisited

Julian Marszalek slips into his bellbottoms to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a rock album that was really an experimental funk bombshell

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Inviolability: John Cale’s Fear Revisited

Mat Colegate celebrates the 40th birthday of a lopsided, odd and brilliant album

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25 Years On: Angus Batey On Liquid Swords By GZA

45 Years On: Funkadelic’s Let’s Take It To The Stage Revisited

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45 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited

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Believe In A Land Of Love: New Order’s Low-Life 35 Years On

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As American As Capote: The Cramps’ Songs The Lord Taught Us Revisited

World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends

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Miles Davis Live In 1975: Agharta Versus Pangaea

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The Resurrection Show: The Stone Roses’ Second Coming Revisited

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