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Not Forgotten: Father John Misty – Fear Fun

Every now and again you encounter an act whose entire aesthetic appeals to you. From his gorgeous gatefold CD artwork, to his live presence, Father John Misty’s combination of classic…

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Not Forgotten – Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10th Avenue

I will always argue that Mick Ronson is always massively short changed in any assessment of the career of David Bowie. Without Ronson’s arrangement acumen, iconic guitar heroics and unerring…

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Not Forgotten: Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen

Popular opinion would have us believe that most acts find their second albums much more problematic than their debuts. In some ways this is understandable as the material on debuts…

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Not Forgotten: Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom is an album that many have attempted to emulate over the years, but few have succeeded. The genesis of the album’s creation, delayed by Wyatt’s accident that led…

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Not Forgotten: Ray Davies – The Storyteller

The rock star’s autobiography is big business these days, but rarely are they as revelatory, or as informative as they could be and even rarer do they actually make for…

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Not Forgotten: Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous

The live album was a right of passage for the majority of 70s rockers. By and large it was a great leveller, as it could find otherwise massively successful acts…

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Not Forgotten: Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac

The career path of Fleetwood Mac has been a long, complicated and much storied one. Following their Brit-blues-boom beginnings, they enjoyed a flurry of initial success in the UK before…

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Not Forgotten: Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump

A few days ago, a section of social media broke. There was no huge public outcry, and certainly, the vast percentage of users barely noticed and those that did notice,…

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Not Forgotten: The Waterboys – This Is the Sea

Following a number of false starts, A Pagan Place had finally established The Waterboys as not only an act of great promise, and had come tantalisingly close to establishing them…

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Not Forgotten: Harry Nilsson – Aerial Ballet

Released at a time when receiving blanket praise from all four of The Beatles was unarguably A Big Thing, Aerial Ballet is the album that really should have launched Harry…

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