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Reissue CDs Weekly: Television Personalities
‘Beautiful Despair’, a collection of previously unreleased demos, is an uncomfortable listenHow much of someone else’s despair is it possible to take? What are the limits on putting a sense of...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: How is the Air up There?
Absorbing collection of freakbeat, mod and soul stylings from New Zealand“I’ve been labelled as an angry young man / Because I don’t fit into the master plan / Under society’s microscope / I look funny...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Chris Hillman
The Seventies solo albums ‘Slippin’ Away’ and ‘Clear Sailin’’ reappear for reappraisalIn 1976, when his first solo album Slippin’ Away was released, Chris Hillman could look back on being a founder...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jon Savage's 1965
Thrilling 48-track salute to ‘The Year the Sixties Ignited’For Britain, 1965 began with The Beatles’ “I Feel Fine” at the top of the single’s chart. In December, the year bowed out with their double...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Choir
The legendary Cleveland band’s unreleased 1969 album is revealed as one of the Sixties’ bestDuring the British Invasion years, a Cleveland, Ohio band called The Choir ploughed a Brit-focussed furrow...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Voyager Golden Record
A chance to hear what was intended for extra-terrestrials in the Voyager space probesWhat is music? When pondering archive releases, compilations and reissues the question doesn’t come up. Knowledge of...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
'Big Time Operator' gives the Sixties club-soul staples the complete box-set treatment “That colourful character Zoot Money has recently been writing at length in support of psychedelic music. Now,...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Robert Kirby
Conscientious collection dedicated to the musical arranger usually associated with Nick Drake The similarity is intentional. The cover design of When the Day is Done – The Orchestrations of Robert...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Cocteau Twins
Spiffy upgrades of the sonic sorcerers' 'Head Over Heels' and 'Treasure'This column last encountered Cocteau Twins in 2015 when the compilation The Pink Opaque and the Tiny Dynamine/Echoes in a Shallow...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Pentangle
Bonus-stuffed complete-works box set dedicated to Britain’s important musical boundary pushersA nineteen-minute adaptation of “Jack Orion” took up the whole of Side Two of Cruel Sister, Pentangle’s...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Volume 6
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: NORTHERN SOUL'S CLASSIEST RARITIES VOLUME 6 Consummate obscurities package will satisfy anyone into soulConsummate obscurities package will satisfy anyone into soulThe title...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Beatles
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE BEATLES ‘Happy Christmas Beatle People!’: finally, a legal reissue of The Fabs’ seasonal fan club records‘Happy Christmas Beatle People!’: finally, a legal reissue of The Fabs’...
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Reissue CD of the Year: Lal & Mike Waterson
REISSUE CD OF THE YEAR: LAL & MIKE WATERSON The singer-songwriter masterpiece ‘Bright Phoebus’ finally gets the treatment it deservesThe singer-songwriter masterpiece ‘Bright Phoebus’ finally gets...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: To the Outside of Everything
British post-punk gets the box set treatmentNow that the 40th anniversaries of 1976 and 1977 as the years which birthed punk rock have themselves become history, surveyors of rock’s rich tapestry will...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Butterfly Child
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: BUTTERFLY CHILD Twenty-five years on, the matchless ‘Onomatopoeia’ still sounds out of timeTwenty-five years on, the matchless ‘Onomatopoeia’ still sounds out of timeThe critic...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Television Personalities
‘Beautiful Despair’, a collection of previously unreleased demos, is an uncomfortable listenHow much of someone else’s despair is it possible to take? What are the limits on putting a sense of...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: How is the Air up There?
Absorbing collection of freakbeat, mod and soul stylings from New Zealand“I’ve been labelled as an angry young man / Because I don’t fit into the master plan / Under society’s microscope / I look funny...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Chris Hillman
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: CHRIS HILLMAN Ex-Byrd's Seventies solo albums for Asylum RecordsThe Seventies solo albums ‘Slippin’ Away’ and ‘Clear Sailin’’ reappear for reappraisalIn 1976, when his first solo...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jon Savage's 1965
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: JON SAVAGE'S 1965 Thrilling 48-track salute to ‘The Year the Sixties Ignited’Thrilling 48-track salute to ‘The Year the Sixties Ignited’For Britain, 1965 began with The Beatles’ “I...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Choir
The legendary Cleveland band’s unreleased 1969 album is revealed as one of the Sixties’ bestDuring the British Invasion years, a Cleveland, Ohio band called The Choir ploughed a Brit-focussed furrow...
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