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Not Forgotten – Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense (1999 Special Edition)

It starts with audience noise, David Byrne scrolls out and utters immortal opening lines. “Hi. I’ve got a tape I wanna play you.” A basic electronic drum pattern starts up,…

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Not Forgotten: Atomic Rooster – In Hearing of Atomic Rooster

In Hearing Of Atomic Rooster is a remarkable album, but not for the most obvious reasons. On first listen, it’s a heavy psych-prog album by a band centred around former…

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Not Forgotten: ZZ Top – Degüello

Pretty much smack inbetween the career high-water mark that was Tres Hombres, and the ultra-commercial, MTV-courting, mega-seller, Eliminator, ZZ Top’s Deguello is something of a stand-alone for the band. Whereas…

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Not Forgotten: REM – New Adventures in Hi-Fi

New Adventures In Hi-Fi can be a difficult album to digest. It doesn’t flow particularly well, it can drag and in places it can sound rather dull. There aren’t many…

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Not Forgotten – Ian Hunter – Ian Hunter

Walking away from Mott the Hoople at the point they were beginning to make their mark in the USA, a lot of people must have questioned Ian Hunter’s desire to…

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Not Forgotten – The Replacements – Let It Be

After a clutch of scruffy punkish releases, Let It Be was where The Replacements started to indicate that they were slowly starting to mature, starting to blend more considered material…

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Album Review: Martin Austwick – Through Intermittent Rain

Martin Austwick is a man of many talents. Not only is he a supremely talented singer and songwriter, but he’s a physicist and university lecturer, and is also known as…

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Album Review: U2 – Songs of Innocence

It’s not even 72 hours since its (surprise) release, but already U2’s latest album has become one of the most widely distributed, most talked about and oddly controversial albums in…

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Not Forgotten: Humble Pie – Smokin’

Humble Pie are a band I had certainly heard of, but beyond knowing that they were the band that post-Small Faces Steve Marriott formed with pre-Frampton Comes Alive! Peter Frampton…

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Not Forgotten: Cheap Trick – At Budokan

You know something, it’s taken me years to come to terms with it and stop being bitter about the fact that I wasn’t blessed in the looks department, but I’m…

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