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Not Forgotten: Warren Zevon – Life’ll Kill Ya

  • March 7, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
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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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Hard Promises

  • February 20, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
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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Classic Compilation: A Testimonial Dinner – The Songs of XTC

  • February 16, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
By the mid 90s XTC must have felt distinctly unloved. Neither critical darlings, nor a massive commercial success, they’d had a career-stalling set-to with their record label and had no…
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A Beginners Guide to Bob Dylan

  • February 14, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Over the last fifteen months we here at Backseat Mafia have been publishing a series of Buyers Guides on a number of musical acts. Sometimes these guides have covered a…
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Not Forgotten: Crowded House – Woodface

  • February 10, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
The career arc of Crowded House through their initial phase was really rather odd. Over four albums they recorded some of the finest pop songs of the era, the first…
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Not Forgotten: Fish – Internal Exile

  • February 2, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Fish’s debut solo album, Vigil in the Wilderness of Mirrors, had sounded almost exactly like what you’d expect the debut solo album of the former Marillion frontman to sound like.…
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Not Forgotten: Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection

  • January 31, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
There are some who will always view Elton John with suspicion, or even disdain. With his stocky frame, his bad wigs and a reputation for over-reacting when things don’t go…
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Reissues: Tyrannosaurus Rex

  • January 23, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Marc Bolan’s reputation as one of the 20th Century’s greatest pop stars is forever tied to the material he released as the frontman of T.Rex, one of the finest glam…
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Not Forgotten – Kate Bush – Hounds of Love

  • January 7, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
The rules for being a successful prog rock act were seemingly set in stone. You had to be a band, predominantly male, you were not allowed to have hit singles…
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A Buyers Guide to Warren Zevon – The Asylum Years

  • December 3, 2014
  • Jon Bryan
Warren Zevon is one of those songwriters who is unfortunately best remembered for one song which overshadowed the rest of his career. This is a great shame, as Zevon’s output…
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