1000 Great Albums: Message From The Country by The Move
By 1971, the Move had, quite literally, moved on. The halcyon days of classic records like ‘Night Of Fear’ and[…]
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1,000 Great Albums: ELO: Electric Light Orchestra (AKA No Answer) (1971)
Baroque pop is a phrase first coined in the 1960s to categorise the growing popularity of using orchestras in pop[…]
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1000 Great Albums: The Original Mirrors (1980)
Original Mirrors – Original Mirrors (1980) Who, then, are Original Mirrors, and why have you never heard of them? And[…]
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1000 Great Albums: Status Quo: Quo (1974)
I read once that Alan Lancaster (the principal founder member of Status Quo, despite what revisionists might say) walked out[…]
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1000 Great Albums: Jeff Lynne: Armchair Theatre (1990)
Six degrees of separation, as defined on Wikipedia, is the idea that if you are one “step” away from each[…]
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1000 Great Albums: Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (the world’s favourite album until Michael Jackson released Thriller) occupies a special place in everyone’s record collection.[…]
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1000 Great Albums: The Move: Looking On (1970)
Whilst Looking On is possibly my least favourite Move album, it was released at a pivotal time in the band’s[…]
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1000 Great Albums: The Clash: Sandinista! (1980)
It is often said of the Clash’s fourth album, Sandinista! (1980), that it is four sides too long (the original[…]
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1000 Great Albums: Status Quo: Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon
Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon was unleashed on an unsuspecting public in 1970 by Pye Records. It completely broke the mould[…]
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1000 Great Albums: Honeybus – Story (1970)
This may well take a lifetime to finish: here’s the first of my own personal reviews of 1,000 albums which,[…]
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