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A Lot Of Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys' Please Revisited
What would you want from a debut album? Instant success, hit singles and a worldwide fanbase or...
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30 Years On: The Curiously Ignored Lyricism In Slint's Spiderland
Slint's breakthrough record was released in April 1999. Constructed around sombre, geologically...
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The Story Of This Is The Sea: An Interview With Mike Scott Of The Waterboys
You only had to take one look at Mike Scott in the early 1980s to know that he was born to writ...
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C86 And All That: The 25th Anniversary
As soon as a jingly-jangly indie band appears today, the C86 tag isn't far behind. And yet, thi...
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35 Years On: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels By Dexys Revisited
My first non-'Eileen' encounter with Dexys Midnight Runners came after I dug out a load of old ...
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40 Years On: The Jam's Sound Affects Revisited
Paul Weller was barely 22 when he started recording Sound Affects, his fifth album in just over...
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40 Years On: The Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
The punk rock movement was a bandwagon that was driven fast and didn't wait for stragglers to c...
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Memories Of Genius: 40 Years On Prince's Dirty Mind Revisited
Forty years ago this month, Prince Rogers Nelson released his third album Dirty Mind. It was hi...
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Peter Gabriel 3: Melt 40 Years On By Chris Roberts
Research for this piece – a few clicks – tells me this is "generally regarded as Gabriel’s fine...
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Looking For Water: JJ72's Debut Revisited 20 Years On
"It may have been on a smaller scale, but for people of a certain age JJ72 were their very own ...
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