Category: Rewind
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Time to rewind to an album that divided opinions…
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Bristol-born Ben Westbeech is truly a talented musician. His vocals are fautless, fresh, soothing – he sounds completely at ease. His music is an unusual fusion of jazz, hip-hop, funk and pop. Welcome to the Best Years of Your Life is a superb album; the problem is, no-one seems to have heard of the man.…
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They were the band who gazed on Waterloo sunsets, lazed on sunny afternoons in the summer time, and shared the delightful contents of their autumn almanac with their listeners. But on no other album is their quintessentially English pop-rock more obvious than on 1968’s The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. Written after singer…
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Iggy Pop, godfather of punk. This is a phrase you’ll no doubt have heard countless times. Idiot was released in 1977, the ‘year that punk broke’. What’s funny then is that this album is pretty far removed from the typical punk stylings of The Clash or Sex Pistols, and even further removed from the sound…
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Is this one of the best albums ever? Definitely. Is the debut the best Oasis album? Maybe.
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Anyone with even a passing interest in music should listen to this album
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My Bloody Valentine’s 1991 opus stands the test of time and remains in a class of its own after 20 years.
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We all know of John Lennon: he was the walrus, the cool Beatle murdered 30 years ago for no clear reason by a man who thought he was Holden Caufield, and who would have been 70 this month had he lived. His finest hour, even finer than Sgt Pepper’s, was a hymn for unilateral world…
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Talking Heads live album Stop Making Sense is, in many ways, the best place to start with this band. Even better would be the live DVD from which this album is taken from. Spanning their career up until that point, this is an energetic, lively set that seamlessly transports Talking Heads jerky, dancey brand of…
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The EDGE goes back four years to examine the album which fully established The Killers as an indie phenomenon.
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Although not necessarily the best Beatles album, the band’s 1963 debut, Please Please Me, is perhaps the most interesting of all their records. Its beauty lies in the fresh sound of a band superbly emulating the music of their youth, mixing American rock ‘n’ roll with the sweet sounds of early 1960s British pop. They may not have been the only band offering British…
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“Whilst not as “defining” as Daydream Nation or as obviously accessible as “Goo” or “Dirty”, EVOL finds Sonic Youth combining their best qualities together to create an outstanding album”
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Another classic album, this time its the turn of Pink Floyd’s, 1973, Dark Side Of The Moon