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A World We Pretend by Twilight Garden Every so often I come across a band in my library and I think “How the hell did I ever get this?” Twilight Garden are one of those bands. They are a curious cross of Depeche Mode, the Cure and maybe a tiny bit
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A Metal Tribute to Abba – Various Artists It’s been a while. Sorry. Anyway, back to the project, and what a start. Possibly one of the best compilations I have in my library. The Metal Tribue To Abba compilation never fails to raise a smile on faces as a group of (mostly) European metal
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Dear BBC, I notice that you are increasing the regularity of the appearance of people who seem to be experts on everything and have opinions on everything which, for some reason, you think reflects society at large. I would like to offer my services as a gobshite. I too have strong opinions on everything from
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I suppose my first job was as a paper boy for D Browns in Woolton Village. Browns is still there. D Brown, is not. Browns is a traditional newsagent. It’s still going purely because it is the first shop on the way to the bus stop from a girls secondary school. Indeed, when half past
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Since the news of possible redundancy, I’ve been thinking a lot about my career. Where I’ve come from. Where I am going to. The variety of jobs I’ve held down over the years. I’ve also been thinking about how “music heavy” my blogs are appearing to be at the moment. I mean, I’m only just
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A Thousand Roads by Lisa Gerrard & Jeff Rona A Thousand Roads is a film by Chris Eyre released in 2005. This is the soundtrack for it. I’m very fond of soundtracks and there are many in my collection. Mostly they are of films that I have seen but this is one of 2 film
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A Song for All Seasons–Renaissance I first came across Renaissance in 2002 when I used to subscribe to Last.fm’s radio service. In case you didn’t know, Last.fm supposedly checks what you listen to and then finds artists you might like and plays samples of their music mixed in with yours. The song
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A Secret History by The Divine Comedy There is a certain sound that conjures up memories of the 1990’s. Granted, I spent most of the 1990s in a haze of solitude and unemployment. Indeed, I did not really venture much further musically than the compilation album Shine 9. Instead I spent most of the
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Album 39 was A Saucerful of Pink one of the many Floyd tribute albums. This, however, is the real deal. The second Floyd album and the first without Syd Barratt, although he did write the track Jugband Blues, which features on this album. It shows as early Floyd. Bizarre lyrics, lots of moog and
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason by Pink Floyd Oh you knew it was going to happen. This is the problem when you have 2 computers, one of which you use sparingly, and don’t sync them. Well it’s happened. The first one out of sequence. So there I am, being diligent and thinking of you
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