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REDUX: REVO Remastering: Jacqui Brookes – Sob Stories [REVO 074] [part 1]

December 4, 2015 Jacqui Brookes: Sob Stories 2xCD-R [2015] Disc 1 – The Album Lost Without Your Love The One That Got Away The Cold Light Of Day Another Place For A Dreamer Trains, And Boats, And Planes Haunted Cocktails Just … Continue reading

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Simple Minds Drop A Surprise Cover Album With The Biggest Surprise Of All – All Michael Been, All Of The Time!

Forty six years into a career that’s seen the Glaswegian Art Rockers try a little but of everything, as of 10:35 this morning one can no longer say that The Minds haven’t had the very modern feather in their caps … Continue reading

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Two Great Tastes: Icehouse And Simple Minds Check Roots On T-Rex Classic

The last post about Derek Forbes’ autobiography touched on the connections between Australia’s Icehouse and Scotland’s Simple Minds as both bands had significant history dating back to their teaming up in 1981 for tours of Oz and the UK in … Continue reading

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The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize: When Holy Grail Discs Like Associates “Boys Keep Swinging” Manifest

So yeah, my 60th birthday was two days ago. There wasn’t much of a fuss planned. I even went to work as whether to go on one’s birthday is usually a tossup each year. Since we had taken a lot … Continue reading

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A Young Person’s Guide To Pet Shop Boys – “Always On My Mind”

I was all-in on Pet Shop Boys by the point that anyone else would be. I hadn’t heard them until “West End Girls” was released in its second recording on EMI on 1985 and managed to make the duo one … Continue reading

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Telstar: An Iconic Pop Instrumental From 1962…And 1984

This morning I saw Steve For The Deaf’s posting on The Tornadoes iconic “Telstar” single from 1962 and immediately got pulled into its orbit. It reminded me that the conic instrumental came into my Record Cell a few years back … Continue reading

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Associates “Sulk” Ultrabox Aims For Excess…As Ever [part 7]

[…continued from last post] The June third Peel Session from 1982, was broadcast just three weeks after “Sulk” was released. The band were obviously racing towards the horizon as the new session [possibly after drummer John Murphy was out of … Continue reading

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