Reissue CDs Weekly: The Voyager Golden Record
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD A chance to hear what was intended for extra-terrestrials in the Voyager space probesA chance to hear what was intended for extra-terrestrials in the...
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'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,...
View ArticleReissue 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...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Cocteau Twins
COCTEAU TWINS Spiffy upgrades of the sonic sorcerers''Head Over Heels' and 'Treasure'Spiffy upgrades of the sonic sorcerers' 'Head Over Heels' and 'Treasure'This column last encountered Cocteau Twins...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Spirit
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: SPIRIT ‘It Shall Be, The Ode & Epic Recordings’ is an essential overview of a terrific band‘It Shall Be, The Ode & Epic Recordings’ is an essential overview of a terrific...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Shirley Collins
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY ‘The Ballad of Shirley Collins’ is a selective tribute to the British folk great‘The Ballad of Shirley Collins’ is a selective tribute to the British folk great “When I was singing...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: RADKA TONEFF AND STEVE DOBROGOSZ The timeless ‘Fairytales’ unites understatement and forcefulnessThe timeless ‘Fairytales’ unites understatement and forcefulnessFairytales is...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Brian James
First solo album from the former Damned and Lords of the New Church man is a blastBrian James’ opening cut is “The Twist”. Not the Sixties dance-craze song, but a melodic guitar-driven rocker simpatico...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: New York Dolls
'Personality Crisis' is a frequently wonderful collection of what New York’s finest did not originally releasePlaying Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on 8 September 1974, the New York Dolls opened their...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Julian Cope
The four albums from the rocky years with Island Records hit the shops againIn terms of chart statistics, Julian Cope’s period with Island Records looks pretty good. He issued four albums with the...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Burning Britain
Deep-digging box set devoted to ‘Independent UK Punk 1980–1983’In early March 1980, the weekly music paper Sounds dedicated their front cover to “the new face of punk” with a photograph of Stinky...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Yung Wu
Feelies offshoot’s sole album is as good as those by its parent bandWhen Crazy Rhythms, the ever-fabulous first album by New Jersey’s Feelies was issued in April 1980 it seemed to have little local...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: African Scream Contest 2
No-filler compilation of grooves from BeninAfrican Scream Contest 2 opens with a burst of distorted guitar suggesting a parallel-world response to The Chambers Brothers’ “Time Has Come Today”. Then,...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Nirvana
Not that one: bonus-stuffed reappearance of the British Sixties psych-pop band’s first two albumsIn William S, Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch, a simopath was “a citizen convinced he is an ape or other...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: John Foxx
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: JOHN FOXX Three-disc reconfiguration of 1980’s synth-pop landmark ‘Metamatic’Three-disc reconfiguration of 1980’s synth-pop landmark ‘Metamatic’Although a minimalist approach...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Gene Clark
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: GENE CLARK Significant first-time release of post-Byrds demosSignificant first-time release of demos recorded after the singer-songwriter left The Byrds“Past My Door” weaves...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: The Rose Garden
‘A Trip Through The Garden’ charts the rise and fall of the fine, folky Californian harmony pop bandThe Rose Garden didn’t linger in the bright lights but for those inclined towards harmony pop their...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Contract in Blood / Winds of Time
Box sets dedicated to The New Wave of British Heavy Metal and UK thrash metalAlthough the cover of the 19 May 1979 issue of the music weekly Sounds was dominated by a photo of American rocker Ted...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Zuider Zee
‘Zeenith’, a winning collection of the Seventies cult band’s previously unreleased recordingsThe most intriguing aspect of the mid-Seventies, Memphis-based band Zuider Zee isn’t that they took their...
View ArticleReissue CDs Weekly: Manfred Mann
‘The Albums ‘64 –‘67’: the first four HMV LPs from the jazz-pop-R&B stylists in a boxDress each of the band in the same clothes. Stand them in a line outside the EMI headquarters building on...
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