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30 Years On: Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction Revisited

Guns N' Roses were not nice people. Appetite For Destruction is an extraordinary, and ugly, and sensational album that could not conceivably have been made by anyone other than awful people, says David Bennun

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20 Years On: The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land

In the summer of Britpop and Blair, The Prodigy were the irritant ants crawling over the celebratory picnic table. Angus Batey recalls an encounter with the reluctant biggest band in the land, and examines their nonconformist legacy

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Malcolm Lowry’s Under The Volcano – The First Great Addiction Memoir

Under the Volcano was written as a novel, but it told deep truths about addiction, says Jeremy Allen, in an age before it was expected that a memoir of excess should end with recovery

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Perennial Quest: Chuck Schuldiner’s Genius & Death’s Scream Bloody Gore

Dan 'The Doom' Franklin celebrates the 30th anniversary of Scream Bloody Gore and the astounding legacy of Chuck Schuldiner and Death

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Faith No More’s Angel Dust & The Art Of Following Up A Phenomenon

Jeremy Allen looks back 25 years to Faith No More's Angel Dust and finds a band devising strategies to deal with their phenomenal and unexpected success

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Spiritualized: From Serene Restraint To Deranged Maximalism In Five Years

In the five years from the release of Lazer Guided Melodies in 1992, Spiritualized journeyed to the outer limits with Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. David Bennun traces their journey

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Three Decades On: One Thousand Years Of Trouble By Age Of Chance

Angus Batey revisits an unfairly overlooked album in the history of cut and paste music

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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… Pete Paphides On David Bowie’s Debut LP

Fifty years ago today, David Bowie released his debut album on the same day The Beatles gave the world Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Pete Paphides reflects on their shared cultural history and canny grasp of the times

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Bathory’s Under The Sign Of The Black Mark 30 Years On

Jim '...Of Doom' Martin and Louise 'Woman Of Dark Desires' Brown celebrate three decades of Eternal Fire with help from members of Grand Magus, Paradise Lost, White Hills and Katatonia

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A Vision of Hell: The Cure’s Pornography as Psychedelic Post Punk Masterpiece

Julian Marszalek sets controls for the heart of the bad trip and speaks to Lol Tolhurst, Youth and John Robb in order to get to the bottom of The Cure's darkest - and most tripped out - album

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This Is What We Get: 20 Years Of OK Computer

Two decades later Brian Coney looks at how the Radiohead album takes the temperature of 21st century anxiety, while examining our relationship with technology and the murkiness of modern politics

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Revisiting Fields Of The Nephilim: Dawnrazor 30 Years On

Julian Marszalek remembers 30 years ago, when it were all Fields Of The Nephilim round 'ere

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Wu-Tang Forever: The Making And The Breaking Of The Clan

Angus Batey looks back 20 years to the album that came at the end of the Wu-Tang Clan's five year plan and asks, What went wrong?

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Just Like A Dream: The Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Revisited

Ned Raggett slips back 30 years in time to reassess the double album The Cure released when they were first making footholds in America

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Bits & Pieces: Angus Batey On The History Of Cut And Paste

With its roots in both the avant garde and novelty music, cut & paste came of age in 1987 with the likes of Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, Coldcut, Steinski, Bomb The Bass and M/A/R/R/S. Angus Batey traces the history of this magpie movement

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How The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Lived Down To Their Name

Why is it so difficult to revisit the strident political albums of one's youth? David Bennun returns to the once inflammatory Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury and finds it’s so much smaller now, and didn't it all used to be fields around here?

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40 Years On: Revisiting AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock

AC/DC released plenty of good albums, but Let There Be Rock in 1977 was their first truly great long player, says Julian Marszalek

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The Day Of The Locust: Paul Leary Of The Butthole Surfers Interviewed

Butthole Surfers guitarist Paul Leary talks to Ben Graham about the making of the band's classic 1987 album, Locust Abortion Technician, and how its traumatic closing track was actually influenced by a Carly Simon Bond theme

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Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

Was David Bowie's trilogy actually a quadrilogy; heck, was it actually a pentalogy; or, asks Jeremy Allen, is Berlin simply a state of mind?

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From The Joshua Tree To Pop: Angus Batey Revisits U2

Angus Batey travels back 30 and 20 years to find, respectively, a flawed milestone and an under-appreciated gem but also a band who had lost some of their optimism

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Enter The Golden Age: BDP, Public Enemy, Eric B & Rakim 30 Years On

Angus Batey revisits the three albums, released within months of each other, that changed everything in hip hop: Paid In Full, Yo, Bum Rush The Show and Criminal Minded

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Out Of Time: Ultravox! & Ha! Ha! Ha! Revisited By Chris Roberts

1977 saw the release of both Ultravox! and Ha! Ha! Ha! Chris Roberts looks back four decades and finds that there's sometimes no prize for coming first...

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Duplicitous Pop: Ooooooohhh… On The TLC Tip 25 Years On

Lesley Chow revisits TLC's unique debut album

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How Fleetwood Mac Invented Goth, By David Bennun

David Bennun casts his eye back over Rumours, Tusk and Tango In The Night and rediscovers a band who hid their dark, experimental tendencies in plain sight behind a triumvirate of ubiquitous AOR albums

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Rhyme Over Reason: Pavement′s Brighten The Corners 20 Years On

Lesley Chow celebrates what is (arguably) the most lyrically inventive record of the 1990s

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21st Century Birth Pains: Electric Wizard’s Come My Fanatics Revisited

Dan 'The Doom' Franklin speaks to Chief Wizard Jus Oborn and gets the low down on how eschatological panic, Sabbath and drum & bass influenced Britain's most heaviocious band to give birth to the new millennium in the form of Come My Fanatics...

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Short Shark Shock: Thirty Years Of Young British Artists

Three decades after they were dubbed Young British Artists, Robert Barry looks back at the work of a generation for whom conceptual art did not demand the denial of life and joy.

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40 Years On: David Bowie’s Low Revisited

Low - how deep can you go? asks William Doyle of one of Bowie's most revered albums as it turns 40

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Ocean Colour Scene’s Moseley Shoals 25 Years On, By Pete Paphides

Ocean Colour Scene have been unfairly maligned over the years, argues Pete Paphides, as he revisits the album that brought the band back from the brink

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Why The The’s Infected Is More Relevant Now Than Ever

Infected was a massive hit for Matt Johnson on release 35 years ago but its lyrical message rings louder than ever, says Jeremy Allen

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Millstone Or Milestone? DJ Shadow On Endtroducing 25 Years On

DJ Shadow and Angus Batey have one thing in common: neither of them are sure that Endtroducing is the former's best LP. On the anniversary of one of the most discussed electronic LPs of the mid-90s the pair discuss the merit and status of the landmark album

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Celebrating 20 Years Of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas

Wolfgang Voigt's ambient techno project turns 20 this year and is celebrated by a new box set on Kompakt. Long term fan David Stubbs sees Gas as a bridge between Krautrock and "the great dancefloor movements of the late 20th/early 21st century"

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20 Years On: The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land

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Perennial Quest: Chuck Schuldiner’s Genius & Death’s Scream Bloody Gore

Faith No More’s Angel Dust & The Art Of Following Up A Phenomenon

Spiritualized: From Serene Restraint To Deranged Maximalism In Five Years

Three Decades On: One Thousand Years Of Trouble By Age Of Chance

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… Pete Paphides On David Bowie’s Debut LP

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A Vision of Hell: The Cure’s Pornography as Psychedelic Post Punk Masterpiece

This Is What We Get: 20 Years Of OK Computer

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Wu-Tang Forever: The Making And The Breaking Of The Clan

Just Like A Dream: The Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Revisited

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How The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Lived Down To Their Name

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Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

From The Joshua Tree To Pop: Angus Batey Revisits U2

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Out Of Time: Ultravox! & Ha! Ha! Ha! Revisited By Chris Roberts

Duplicitous Pop: Ooooooohhh… On The TLC Tip 25 Years On

How Fleetwood Mac Invented Goth, By David Bennun

Rhyme Over Reason: Pavement′s Brighten The Corners 20 Years On

21st Century Birth Pains: Electric Wizard’s Come My Fanatics Revisited

Short Shark Shock: Thirty Years Of Young British Artists

40 Years On: David Bowie’s Low Revisited

Ocean Colour Scene’s Moseley Shoals 25 Years On, By Pete Paphides

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Celebrating 20 Years Of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas

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