Not Forgotten: 10CC – Deceptive Bends
Having cornered the intelligent pop market with a brace of hit singles and a quartet of albums which made the most of each individual band member’s top-draw songwriting and cutting-edge…
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Not Forgotten: The Bees – Octopus
There’s something heartening when you discover a band that’s obviously not part of a media-hyped ‘scene’. Released during a period where tie-rock, Brit-pop revivalists and Coldplay-clones still held sway here…
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Not Forgotten: The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Welcome to the Infant Freebase
Retro rock is a risky business, if you pay homage to your influences too closely you risk ending up in a creative cul-de-sac, when your fans don’t need to know…
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Not Forgotten: Alison Moyet – Alf
When Alison Moyet launched her solo career, there was no small amount of anticipation. One of the few genuinely standout vocalists on the British Music scene in the early 80s,…
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Not Forgotten: Supergrass – In It for the Money
I never really held out that much hope for Supergrass. To the untrained eye they appeared to spring from nowhere to unleash the chirpy (but not to the point of…
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Not Forgotten: Supertramp – Even in the Quietest Moments
Even in the Quietest Moments is the second of two albums wedged between Supertramp’s best album, 1974’s Crime of the Century, and their most commercially successful, 1979’s Breakfast in America.…
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Not Forgotten: Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Silver Jews are a band that I knew by name long before I heard a note of their music. Apparently they were originally associated with Pavement, and that was enough…
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Not Forgotten: Skunk Anansie – Stoosh
Skunk Anansie were one of those acts in the 90s that you couldn’t help but be aware of, particularly around the time of their second album, Stoosh. A punkish hard…
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Not Forgotten: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
It’s fair to say that immediately prior to the release of Neon Bible, the music scene was working itself up into a frenzy over Arcade Fire, with their full length…
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Not Forgotten: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
Released in early March 1997, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ The Boatman’s Call was received with a modest amount of fanfare, and was pretty much instantly embraced as one…
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