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Not Forgotten: Weezer – Weezer (Blue Album)

Recently Weezer have returned to prominence via their cover of Toto’s “Africa”, and long term fans have subsequently howled in derision at their decision to release a covers album. Actually,…

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Not Forgotten: Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

Woah, did I misjudge this album when I first heard it. I’ve never known an album take so long to burn into my psyche, but The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Waits – Mule Variations

Mule Variations starts with what sounds like a rhythmically capable panel beater knocking seven bells out of a steel filing cabinet with hammers, and it gives you a glimpse of…

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Not Forgotten: Sparks – No.1 in Heaven

Career reinventions don’t come much more well executed than Sparks’ recently reissued 1979 album, No.1 in Heaven. While brothers Ronald and Russell Mael had found an enthusiastic audience for their…

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Not Forgotten: The Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?

Sometimes you hear a band and you go, ‘Yep, that’s for me’. It was like that when I heard Who Killed the Zutons? for the first time. It was, and…

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Not Forgotten: Terrorvision – How to Make Friends and Influence People

Terrorvision were one of those acts that really deserved more than they got in the 90s. Forging a sturdy pop metal alloy at a time when so many acts at…

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Not Forgotten: Pulp – His ‘n’ Hers

In retrospect Pulp were a band that burned brightly and became hugely important to a generation, but whose work remains oddly preserved in a sort of musical aspic. Although they…

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Not Forgotten: Pixies – Doolittle

While C’mon Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa had hooked many people into the Pixies with their abrasive sounding crunching alt rock, 1989s Doolittle saw them take a different approach, with a…

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Not Forgotten: Fountains of Wayne – Utopia Parkway

In the years before the tuneful “Stacy’s Mom” seared them into the subconscious of music fans as one hit wonders, Fountains of Wayne were a band enjoying medium-sized success, with…

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Classic Compilation: The Cult – Pure Cult: For Rockers, Ravers, Lovers and Sinners

The Cult always seemed to be a bit of an oddity in the British landscape of music in the 80s. They weren’t a miserable indie band, they were briefly goths,…

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