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Not Forgotten: Sigur Rós – Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

I discovered Sigur Rós, like many of us did, via the rapturously received Ágætis byrjun avant-garde psych-prog statement made even more exotic due to the band’s use of their native…

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Not Forgotten: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

Rising slowly over the horizon of a fractured, but ever evolving modern music scene in 2008, The Fleet Foxes self-titled debut didn’t so much dazzle, as glow warmly, encouraging you…

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Not Forgotten: Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town

There’s a time in all of our lives when we put aside our romantic dreams of an ideal life aside, and simply accept life for being the often thankless struggle…

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Not Forgotten: Randy Newman – Randy Newman

While Randy Newman had been a songwriter for others since 1960, and he had released his debut single at the tender young age of 18 in 1962, his self titled…

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Not Forgotten: José Feliciano – Feliciano!

There have been numerous times in the history of popular song when quiet has proved to be the new the new loud, in fact it is something that happens so…

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Not Forgotten: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War of the Worlds

Imagine for a moment the pitch for this album to Columbia Records in the mid 70s. A guy best known for advertising jingles and writing light-weight pop-rock hits turns up…

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Not Forgotten: Smashing Pumpkins – Adore

Smashing Pumpkins were undoubtedly one of the key rock acts of the 1990s. Lumped in with the grunge movement, they stood apart from the Seattle trio of big hitters, and…

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Not Forgotten: AC/DC – Powerage

It’s hard to consider that AC/DC could have an album that could be overlooked, but Powerage, slotted between 1977’s Let There Be Rock, the album that first saw them achieve…

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Not Forgotten: Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords

As I have aged I have been slowly but surely reaching the conclusion that comedy, or more specifically, what the individual finds funny is a deeply personal thing, perhaps even…

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Not Forgotten: Hawkwind – Space Ritual

There are some acts that have survived only to prove that drugs really do not work. Hawkwind are perhaps the most enduring of all the drug casualty groups, causing a…

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