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20 Years On: KRS-One’s Return Of The Boom Bap Revisited

Angus Batey claims that KRS-ONE is hip hop's "spirit guide and conscience"... and we're in agreement. Here he revisits his first official solo album two decades after its release

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Masta Ace Incorporated’s SlaughtaHouse – 20 Years On

Ahead of Masta Ace's appearance at Incubate Festival in Tiburg, NL, next week, Angus Batey revisits the classic LP SlaughtaHouse

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A Label On A Mission: Two Decades Of Kompakt

Theo Ploeg speaks to Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Hans Nieswandt about 20 years of minimal techno, ambient and pop. Mayer photograph by Anne Vlaanderen

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A Case For Sonic Attack: Hawkwind’s Space Ritual 40 Years On

Hawkwind at the height of their powers were as good as any of their German contemporaries... and they were at the height of their powers when they recorded the live album Space Ritual, says Joe Banks

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20 Years On: The Breeders’ Last Splash Revisited

Emily Mackay enjoys goosebumps - or is that endures horripilation - on relistening to the Breeders' second LP

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Choose The Good Life: Club Tropicana By Wham! Revisited

Eli Davies looks back at one of Wham!'s biggest hits and admires what she sees

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A Disease With A Long Incubation: Blue Öyster Cult’s Imaginos

Joseph Stannard charts the protracted gestation of BÖC's most fearless gesture, Imaginos, which turns 25 this month, and recalls the impact it had on him as a teenager

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30 Years On: Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues Revisited

What's in a name? Chad Parkhill looks at the language of Talking Heads

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Thirty Years On: Japan’s Oil On Canvas Revisited

Joseph Burnett salutes Japan, the kind of band who can bow out on a live album

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25 Years On: U2’s Zooropa Revisited

Julian Marszalek reckons the stadium bestriding rock band's eighth album is an often overlooked gem in their back catalogue

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Nirvana’s Howl At The Moon: In Utero Revisited, 20 Years On

Daniel Ross doesn't care which mix of this extraordinary album he's listening to...

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30 Years On: Lovesexy By Prince Revisited

David Bennun celebrates Prince's last statement of pure genius three decades later

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A Little Man & A House & The Whole World Window By Cardiacs Revisited

To celebrate Tim Smith's birthday Sean Kitching looks back at one of the Cardiacs' most well loved albums

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The Art Of Parting: Bauhaus’ Burning From The Inside 30 Years On

Our man from the O.C. Ned Raggett revisits the Northampton quartet's fourth album

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Sailing The Seas Of Cheese Revisited: Les Claypool Of Primus Interviewed

Craig Terlino speaks with Les Claypool to discuss what to expect from this new deluxe edition, how the album has held up since its release, and to see whether it's still impossible to put your finger on their sound after all these years. Photos by Valerio Berdini

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30 Years On: Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut Revisited

Rev. Rachel Mann looks at Pink Floyd's Falklands/Cold War panic album as a historical time capsule

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Lucky Star: Madonna’s Debut Album, 35 Years On

Matthew Lindsay studies the blonde's ambition to become one of the biggest stars of the 80s with her self-titled album of 1983

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30 Years On: New Order’s Power Corruption And Lies Revisited

Ned Raggett, our man in Orange County, CA, ponders the magnificence of New Orders second long player

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30 Years On: The Scene Is Now’s Tonight We Ride Revisited

For Sean Kitching Napster was an occult encyclopaedia leading to an alternate universe of brilliant and bizarre sounds... and to The Scene Is Now

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For Those About To Smooth Jazz: Sade’s Stronger Than Pride Revisted

Chad Parkill revisits one of his earliest musical memories: listening to Sade on a hippy commune in the Australian bush in a piece looking at Stronger Than Pride 30 years after its release

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Queen Sized Polly: PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me Revisited

25 years after its release, John Freeman looks back at Polly Jean Harvey’s torrid and brilliant second album, Rid Of Me, a slate-cleaning ball of fury that would shock and awe in equal measure

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The Jesus And Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses 30 Years On

It's 30 years since East Kilbride reprobates, Jim and William Reid released their excellent early doors compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, so who better to revisit it (with Jim, Douglas Hart and John Moore in tow) than their biographer Zoë Howe

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30 Years On: Pere Ubu’s The Tenement Year Revisited

Critics tend to gravitate towards Pere Ubu's earlier post-punk material, but Sean Kitching has equal affection for their first 'pop' album

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Dancing In Quicksand: Tool’s Undertow Revisited

Twenty five years after its release, Matt Evans revisits the progressive alternative metal band's debut album

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Adding It Up: Violent Femmes’ Debut Album Revisited

Thirty years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the newly-reformed Milwaukee trio’s punk-folk classic that perfectly soundtracked his teenage angst.

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Wrapped Up: Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, 30 Years On

It's been three decades since the release of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart's classic. Matthew Lindsay casts an ear and an eye back over a "sad, strange and popular" album that "pulled off the New Pop trick of having your cake and eating it; revelling in what you deconstruct"

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20 Years On: KRS-One’s Return Of The Boom Bap Revisited

Masta Ace Incorporated’s SlaughtaHouse – 20 Years On

A Label On A Mission: Two Decades Of Kompakt

A Case For Sonic Attack: Hawkwind’s Space Ritual 40 Years On

20 Years On: The Breeders’ Last Splash Revisited

Choose The Good Life: Club Tropicana By Wham! Revisited

A Disease With A Long Incubation: Blue Öyster Cult’s Imaginos

30 Years On: Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues Revisited

Thirty Years On: Japan’s Oil On Canvas Revisited

25 Years On: U2’s Zooropa Revisited

Nirvana’s Howl At The Moon: In Utero Revisited, 20 Years On

30 Years On: Lovesexy By Prince Revisited

A Little Man & A House & The Whole World Window By Cardiacs Revisited

The Art Of Parting: Bauhaus’ Burning From The Inside 30 Years On

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese Revisited: Les Claypool Of Primus Interviewed

30 Years On: Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut Revisited

Lucky Star: Madonna’s Debut Album, 35 Years On

30 Years On: New Order’s Power Corruption And Lies Revisited

30 Years On: The Scene Is Now’s Tonight We Ride Revisited

For Those About To Smooth Jazz: Sade’s Stronger Than Pride Revisted

Queen Sized Polly: PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me Revisited

The Jesus And Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses 30 Years On

30 Years On: Pere Ubu’s The Tenement Year Revisited

Dancing In Quicksand: Tool’s Undertow Revisited

Adding It Up: Violent Femmes’ Debut Album Revisited

Wrapped Up: Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, 30 Years On

30 Years On: Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Revisited

A Past Gone Rad: The Fall’s Infotainment Scan 25 Years On

Far From Useless, Far From Good: Marillion’s Script For A Jester’s Tear

Ain’t No Cure For Love: Leonard Cohen’s I’m Your Man 30 Years On

30 Years On: Morrissey’s Viva Hate Revisited

Present And Correct: The Jam’s Final Album The Gift Revisited 30 Years On

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