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To Chop And Change: Pavement’s Wowee Zowee 25 Years On

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25 Years On: Goodie Mob’s Soul Food Revisited

Angus Batey looks back 25 years to the birth of "dirty south" and the bizarre influence of a far right, survivalist tract on hip hop

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Brian Eno’s Another Green World, Revisited By William Doyle

William Doyle, fka East India Youth, uses his pack of oblique strategies cards to come to terms with Another Green World as it turns 45 this year

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45 Years On: Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Revisited

Joni Mitchell risked everything; she had a career of "unparalleled audacity" says David Bennun when reassessing The Hissing Of Summer Lawns some 45 years later

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25 Years On: Autechre’s Tri Repetae Revisited

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Neo-Prog 35 Years On: Marillion, IQ, Pendragon Etc. Revisited

With Marillion riding high in the charts, 1985 was the peak year for neo-prog. Joe Banks relives his misplaced childhood, and wonders if any of the music from this scene bears revisiting now

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Flying Saucer, Attack! Mr Bungle’s Disco Volante 25 Years On

Twenty-five years since its release, Matt Evans revisits the purposefully difficult second album that pulverised his young metalhead brain

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30 Years On: Run DMC’s Back From Hell Revisited

The New York trio's poorly-received fifth album gets a reappraisal from Angus Batey, who finds lessons about social pressure, creative limits and sonic exploration gone awry within its tracks

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25 Years On: The Young Gods’ Only Heaven Revisited

A quarter century on from the Swiss powerhouse’s fifth album, Ned Raggett takes a look back at what sampling, live drumming & roaring vocals could produce

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Running Out Of Steam: Andy Mackay Of Roxy Music On Siren

David Chiu talks to the Roxy horn player and looks back at the legendary group’s highly regarded fifth record as it turns 45

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25 Years On: Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Revisited

Angus Batey looks back into his archive of interviews with Raekwon in order to better understand this high water mark in mid-90s hip hop

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Talking Away: A-Ha On The Making Of Take On Me

Thirty-five years after a-Ha unveiled their debut, Hunting High & Low, Wyndham Wallace talks to the band about their life as young, starving artists, Hendrix’ ‘Hey Joe’, understanding three dimensional space, and the quest for the perfect ‘Take On Me’…

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Luke Turner looks back 25 years to a singular album and a nation standing at a cultural crossroads

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35 Years On: Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven By Love And Rockets

Ned Raggett looks back at the British post-Bauhaus three piece that made it (temporarily) big Stateside

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LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out

Angus Batey takes a look at LL Cool J's two greatest LPs and considers what a difference five years can make

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A Quick Fix: The Cure’s Head On The Door Revisited

Ned Raggett looks back 35 years to when Robert Smith's newly formed quintet version of The Cure were poised for global recognition

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Movement Ex: Golden Age Hip Hop’s Great Lost Album

This month Angus Batey turns his clinical eye away from the history of rap's powerhouse groups toward a duo who pretty much sank without trace... despite recording one of the all-time great hip hop LPs

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Into A Time Slip: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Turns 45

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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

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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

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

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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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To Chop And Change: Pavement’s Wowee Zowee 25 Years On

25 Years On: Goodie Mob’s Soul Food Revisited

Brian Eno’s Another Green World, Revisited By William Doyle

45 Years On: Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Revisited

25 Years On: Autechre’s Tri Repetae Revisited

Neo-Prog 35 Years On: Marillion, IQ, Pendragon Etc. Revisited

Flying Saucer, Attack! Mr Bungle’s Disco Volante 25 Years On

30 Years On: Run DMC’s Back From Hell Revisited

25 Years On: The Young Gods’ Only Heaven Revisited

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25 Years On: Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Revisited

Talking Away: A-Ha On The Making Of Take On Me

Something Changed: Pulp’s Different Class Revisited

35 Years On: Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven By Love And Rockets

LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out

A Quick Fix: The Cure’s Head On The Door Revisited

Movement Ex: Golden Age Hip Hop’s Great Lost Album

Into A Time Slip: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Turns 45

25 Years On: Angus Batey On Liquid Swords By GZA

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

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

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

At Breaking Point: Black Sabbath’s Sabotage Revisited

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

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

Morning Glory: Fugazi’s Repeater Revisited

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

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

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

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

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

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