Huey Lewis And The News – The Power Of Love (1985)

October 21st will never be just another day. If you’re a ‘Back To The Future’ fan, you’ll remember it as the date when Marty McFly blasts out of 1985 and lands 30 years ahead …

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Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)

In 2005, I had an interview with then-Flower Kings keyboardist Tomas Bodin. I asked him if it still made sense to call “progressive” a genre mostly based on rules from 30+ years earlier …

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Sure, the “good old times”. Sure, “we used to focus on an album more in-depth”. Sure, we were younger. But aside from the nostalgia, would you really trade today’s progress for what we (didn’t) have 30 or 25 years ago? …

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Nirvana – The Man Who Sold The World (1994)

Somewhere on the road, Chad put the newly dubbed cassette into the van stereo. “All of a sudden, Kurt’s like: ‘Wait a second. Is this David Bowie? I’ve never heard this before’” …

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Def Leppard – Young & Wild (1991)

I used to have multiple Sunday morning “rituals” when I was a kid. Once or twice a month, Sunday morning was spent visiting the local flea market, either with my dad or my uncle …

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For something born out of a scattered record collection, this website has explored a range of genres often as random as the sorting order of my own shelves. And still, some worlds have remained untouched. Musicals, for example …

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When Lemmy Joined The Damned.

hat Motörhead had tight-knit ties with the British punk scene is no secret. Their early days with Chiswick Records say it all, bridging two worlds that, at the time, hardly spoke to each other …

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Freddie Hubbard – Bolivia (1991)

Among the jazz musicians who have flirted with Caribbean colors, Freddie Hubbard is not a name that springs to mind. Nevertheless, he too wandered into those “exotic” soundscapes now and then …

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I’d already appreciated former Spandau Ballet bassist Martin Kemp’s storytelling both in his memoir ‘Ticket To My World’ and on the ‘FFS!’ podcast with his son Roman, so I thought that could make him a good novelist too …

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Stranglers – Golden Brown (1981)

It’s funny to think that ‘Golden Brown’— the Stranglers’ signature song, No. 2 in the UK charts — is a wistful, waltz-time ballad that shares almost nothing with the rest of their catalogue …

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