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Not Forgotten: Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery

‘Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends’ How’s that for a killer opening line? Read it again. It’s brilliant. It’s irresistable, pulling you in, promising a life-affirming…

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Reissue: Rush – All the World’s a Stage

For all Rush’s reputation as dazzling progressive rockers on their studio albums, they have an enviable parallell reputation as a thunderously hard rocking live act. While their 70s studio albums…

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Not Forgotten: David Byrne – Feelings

In retrospect Feelings is probably the last time that David Byrne made a conscious effort to make an album that might sell to an audience beyond his most obsessed fans.…

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Not Forgotten: Thea Gilmore – Avalanche

It can’t be easy being Thea Gilmore. Widely hailed as one of the best songwriters of her generation, yet receiving almost no radio play and little media coverage. She’s been…

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Not Forgotten: Warren Zevon – Life’ll Kill Ya

It’s tempting to retrospectively view Warren Zevon’s final three albums as a loose trilogy based around the theme of mortality. While the post cancer-diagnosis musings of My Ride’s Here and…

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Album Review: Taylor Locke – Time Stands Still

A few notes of electric piano and semi-distant slide guitar stamps Time Stands Still with the hallmarks of a West Coast album with a whole heap of promise. The opening…

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Not Forgotten: They Might Be Giants – Flood

As the 90s dawned, things were restless in the musical firmament. In the UK, we were coming to terms with the fact that we were still suffering from the hangover…

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Album Review: CHAMPS – VAMALA

VAMALA is a word used by Isle of Wight fishermen for a certain type of dangerous storm that comes in suddenly off the sea. It is also the name of…

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Not Forgotten: Guided by Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit

An overlooked rather than a forgotten classic, Motivational Jumpsuit was the first of two albums by Guided by Voices that were released in quick succession in the first half of…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Hard Promises

For reasons that have never been explained to my satisfaction, the majority of rock fans this side of the pond never embraced Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in the same…

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