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Nick Pett

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From an old record box: Sade – No Ordinary Love

  • December 10, 2014
  • Nick Pett
For years that refrain of “this is no ordinary love/no ordinary love” held an enduring fascination for me.  In hindsight I probably should have left it to memory. I should…
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Album Review: Taylor Swift – 1989

  • December 9, 2014
  • Nick Pett
  I’d intended to go in one direction when I began writing this, that being to just do a straight up review of the record.  As it is I’ve ended…
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From an old record box: The Wedding Present – 2, 3, go

  • December 8, 2014
  • Nick Pett
“Ride white horses today ! Buy a red Chevrolet ! Let’s go swim the Zambezi Let’s do it just cos it’s easy !”   Fans of Saturnalia and Wedding Present…
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From an old record box: Babybird – Goodnight

  • December 7, 2014
  • Nick Pett
It was 1996, and I was in the Lake District for a summer holiday with a friend’s family; music was key in-car entertainment and one of the principal tapes in…
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From an old record box: Cecil – The Most Tiring Day

  • December 6, 2014
  • Nick Pett
Between 1997 and 1998 the airwaves of Durham were treated to the finest radio show known (and now lost) to humanity: the Al, Nick and Jonny show.  Broadcasting on Purple FM…
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From an old record box: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon (Original Soundtrack)

  • December 5, 2014
  • Nick Pett
A Motown martial arts movie ? You heard. In 1985 Berry Gordy produced what ace critic Roger Ebert described at the time as a “great near-miss”.  It managed to gross…
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From an old record box: The Mission – Hands Across The Ocean

  • December 4, 2014
  • Nick Pett
It’s another product of the ‘Jive Alive’ era.  I can’t think how else I would have ended up listening to this goth-indie-classic rock-folk mash-up of a band. Only a few years…
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From an old record box: Belly – Seal My Fate

  • December 3, 2014
  • Nick Pett
It has become a consistent starting point for the old ‘old record box’ articles. I wonder how the disc in question has come to gather dust – physically and virtually,…
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From an old record box: Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl

  • December 2, 2014
  • Nick Pett
In amongst some pretty bonkers material from a pretty bonkers career, the ‘Cornflake Girl’ b/w ‘Sister Janet’ single is still an impressive box of lyrical frogs.   Atlantic catalogue number…
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From an old record box: R.E.M. – Orange Crush

  • December 1, 2014
  • Nick Pett
“I’m only a person, with Eskimo chain I tattooed my brain all the way Won’t you miss me? Wouldn’t you miss me at all?” My love for R.E.M. has been constant…
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