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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

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

Utterly ridiculous and totally fucking glorious. Harry Sword reflects on a crucial release from the Irons

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

Neil Macdonald was in school when he was first exposed to The Fall via a murky tenth generation cassette recording of their 16th album. 25 years on, we take a look back

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

In among the pomposity and the queuing cumbers of the 80s prog-rockers' debut album, Taylor Parkes tries to pinpoint exactly why it captivated his adolescent self

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

David Bennun studies one of his favourite albums three decades on and finds it more mentor than friend

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30 Years On: Morrissey’s Viva Hate Revisited

Thirty years after its release, John Freeman looks back at an album fuelled by hatred which contains some of the finest songs of Steven Patrick Morrissey’s solo career

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

On the 30th anniversary of the Jam's demise, Valerie Siebert looks back at The Gift

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There’s A Riot Goin’ On: Ice Cube’s The Predator Revisited

Twenty years after its release in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, John Freeman looks back at the anger that fuelled Ice Cube’s greatest solo album

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Dreams Of Rain: The Sisters Of Mercy’s Floodland 25 Years On

Twenty five years on Julian Marszalek revisits Andrew Eldritch's all out bid for chart success and asks, was it worth it

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A Strange Love: Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the career-defining, America-conquering album that saw the Essex quartet perfect their brand of "electronic metal"

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Incestuous Unions: Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back on a life-changing debut record bursting with darkness, death and illicit sex and brilliant pop songs

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A Broken Frame At 30: A Tour Of Depeche Mode’s Basildon

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25 Years On: The Debut Of Jane’s Addiction Revisited

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John Robb On Massive Attack’s Blue Lines – 21 Years On

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Fearful Parties: The Associates’ Sulk 30 Years On

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30 Years On: The Dreaming By Kate Bush

Matt Lindsay gets to grips with the overlooked masterpiece that is The Dreaming

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On the 30th anniversary of its release, Vince Clarke tells John Freeman how Yazoo’s groundbreaking debut album was all about "the singing and the tunes"

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50 States Of Mind: Ride Discuss Going Blank Again, 30 Years On

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Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction – 25 Years On

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Copper Blue 20 Years On: Sugar’s Bob Mould Interviewed

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Voices From Valhalla: Quorthon’s Bathory Revisited

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