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The New Old ABBA track

26 Jan 2012 / 1 Comment / in Classics: Music, News/by Editor

Is this the last ABBA track to be released from the vaults?

ABBA announce a new track on the Deluxe Edition of The Visitors.

If you remember the b-side ‘You Owe Me One’ that’s no doubt an indication of what is to come with “the most sensational inclusion” of a demo track …

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The Kick Inside • Kate Bush

03 Oct 2009 / 0 Comments / in Classics: Music/by Christopher Bryant

★★★★★
Released on February 17th, 1978

The first Kate Bush album started an unconventional and successful career.

The Kick Inside is a lyrically and musically raw debut and it is powered by talent and innocence.

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Space Oddity • David Bowie

15 Aug 2009 / 0 Comments / in Classics: Music/by Arthur Pocket

★★★★★
Released on July 11th, 1969

A strong re-release package accompanies the 40th anniversary of the Bowie classic.

Classic pop alienation and otherness from Pop’s greatest ever alien other.

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Gattaca • Michael Nyman

09 May 2009 / 0 Comments / in Classics: Music/by Christopher Bryant

★★★★★
Released on October 21st, 1997

Nyman’s soundtrack is as intense and disturbing as the film it accompanies.

Nyman’s Gattaca is a focussed and consistent work of minimalist composing that does not stray from the message.

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Hejira • Joni Mitchell

26 Mar 2009 / 0 Comments / in Classics: Music/by Christopher Bryant

★★★★★
Released on November 23rd, 1976

Joni Mitchell at her finest in a road-story album that transcends the era in which it was written.

It is with Hejira, her ninth album, that Mitchell had reached a maturity in which her imagination and talent burst the banks of traditional song-writing.

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This Last Night in Sodom • Soft Cell

16 Feb 2009 / 0 Comments / in Classics: Music/by Arthur Pocket

★★★★★
Released on March 16th, 1984

A ‘difficult’ third album that is both courageous and satisfying.

Putting aside its deliberately lo-fi sound – heck, some of it was even recorded in mono – what you had in your grubby little, nail-bitten hands was an exemplary set from a band who’d always taken a walk on the wild side.

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Waltz Darling • Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra

03 Dec 2008 / 1 Comment / in Classics: Music/by Arthur Pocket

★★★★★
Released on July 13th, 1989

A subversive record, a commercial failure, and a definite pop classic.

Waltz Darling is just a gorgeous, melting experience from start to finish, like slipping off a velvet robe and immersing oneself in a lavender bubble bath with a bottle of chilled $750 Krug to the side.

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