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Tue Aug 03 2021
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
Classic rock. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
3
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Wed Aug 04 2021
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Alternative music ahead of its time
4
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Thu Aug 05 2021
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
Weird. Like really weird.
2
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Fri Aug 06 2021
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
It’s great. I mean, it’s got The Chain. But how often am I going to listen to it?
4
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Sat Aug 07 2021
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
Live country rock. Am I missing something?
2
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Sun Aug 08 2021
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
Sounds like she’s in her dressing gown. Like that time I saw her live.
4
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Mon Aug 09 2021
Beautiful Freak
Eels
Novocaine for the soul.
4
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Tue Aug 10 2021
Blur
Blur
Woo-hoo!
4
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Wed Aug 11 2021
OK
Talvin Singh
Best Okinawa-inspired tabla record I’ve ever listened to!
3
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Thu Aug 12 2021
New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
Drugs & Rock n Roll. Not so sure about the Sex.
3
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Fri Aug 13 2021
Vivid
Living Colour
Above average 80s hard(ish) rock
3
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Sat Aug 14 2021
Homework
Daft Punk
Around the World, Around the World!
4
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Sun Aug 15 2021
Kenza
Khaled
Best Algerian cover of Imagine I’ve ever heard
2
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Mon Aug 16 2021
Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
The guy can sing. But not as much as he can whine.
1
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Tue Aug 17 2021
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
I tried - but it’s not really my thing
2
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Wed Aug 18 2021
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
¡Vamos a jugar por la playa!
4
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Thu Aug 19 2021
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
Inoffensive 80s pop-rock
2
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Fri Aug 20 2021
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
A couple of decent songs doesn’t make a great album.
2
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Sat Aug 21 2021
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
Made me feel like I was a cowboy
3
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Sun Aug 22 2021
Closer
Joy Division
A classic single away from a higher mark
3
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Mon Aug 23 2021
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
Self-indulgent shite
1
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Tue Aug 24 2021
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
Sounds like something out of Austin Powers
2
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Wed Aug 25 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
We’re the red and blue army…
5
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Thu Aug 26 2021
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
Alternative country-inspired guitar
3
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Fri Aug 27 2021
Parklife
Blur
A bit ‘raw’ in places, but that just adds to its charm
5
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Sat Aug 28 2021
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
Surprisingly decent downtempo R&B
3
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Sun Aug 29 2021
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
A couple of reasonable singles doesn’t make a great album
2
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Mon Aug 30 2021
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
A bit ‘of its time’, but still pretty catchy in places
3
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Tue Aug 31 2021
Pump
Aerosmith
Generic 80s rock
2
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Wed Sep 01 2021
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
Gangsta rap - pretty much what I expected
2
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Thu Sep 02 2021
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Sounds exactly like I’d expect a Bob Dylan album to sound
3
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Fri Sep 03 2021
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
Sounds like the 80s, nothing special
2
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Sat Sep 04 2021
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
5 for weirdness, 3 overall
3
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Tue Sep 07 2021
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
Jazz club…nice!
2
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Wed Sep 08 2021
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
Doesn’t sound very modern to me
1
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Thu Sep 09 2021
The Visitors
ABBA
It’s not their best, even Helen thinks it has filler tracks!
2
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Fri Sep 10 2021
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
Great for listening to on a holiday balcony. Probably wouldn’t have scored it so high otherwise.
4
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Sat Sep 11 2021
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
More classic rock, not as good as II. Still gets a slightly generous 3, rather than a harsh 2.
3
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Mon Sep 13 2021
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
Doesn’t have their best singles, but scrapes a 3
3
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Wed Sep 15 2021
Mask
Bauhaus
Entertaining enough
3
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Thu Sep 16 2021
BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
Decent enough R&B-pop
3
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Sat Sep 18 2021
Mothership Connection
Parliament
Funk soul brother
2
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Mon Sep 20 2021
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
Sounds like a ZZ Top album
3
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Tue Sep 21 2021
Synchronicity
The Police
Not as good as I hoped, despite Every Breath You Take
3
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Wed Sep 22 2021
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
Like being in the hippy fields at Glasto
3
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Thu Sep 23 2021
Solid Air
John Martyn
Eclectic guitar rock
3
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Fri Sep 24 2021
Woodface
Crowded House
Everywhere you go… you could probably listen to this album
4
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Sat Sep 25 2021
Ten
Pearl Jam
Sounds like Pearl Jam!
4
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Sun Sep 26 2021
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
Inoffensive bossa nova
2
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Mon Sep 27 2021
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
Inoffensive folk guitar
2
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Tue Sep 28 2021
Teen Dream
Beach House
Laid-back indie pop
4
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Wed Sep 29 2021
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
Glam rock. Get it On is a good pop song, but not convinced by the album overall.
2
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Thu Sep 30 2021
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
RESPECT to this album
3
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Sun Oct 03 2021
Technique
New Order
New Order, but without the classics
3
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Mon Oct 04 2021
Play
Moby
I was planning to give this a 4. Until I listened to it again. And again.
5
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Wed Oct 06 2021
A Girl Called Dusty
Dusty Springfield
A half-decent covers album, but no more than that
2
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Fri Oct 08 2021
Dry
PJ Harvey
Good, but not her best
3
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Sat Oct 09 2021
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
Been spending most of my life… thinking Gangsta’s Paradise was an original
3
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Thu Oct 14 2021
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
She’s got a great voice, but it’s not really my thing.
2
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Sun Oct 17 2021
Drunk
Thundercat
I think he was drunk when he wrote it. And playing Mortal Kombat.
2
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Mon Oct 18 2021
The Man Who
Travis
A bit of nostalgia bias here
3
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Tue Oct 19 2021
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
Why don’t you come on over… and listen to this album
4
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Wed Oct 20 2021
Parachutes
Coldplay
You can’t trust people …
But this is actually a half-decent album
3
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Fri Oct 22 2021
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Generic. Not even generic anything, just generic.
2
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Sat Oct 23 2021
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
Jesus apparently hates a lot of things. But probably not this album.
3
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Sun Oct 24 2021
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
I think I’m missing something
2
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Tue Oct 26 2021
The Bends
Radiohead
Everything is… broken
5
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Thu Oct 28 2021
Kimono My House
Sparks
This Town Ain’t Big Enough… is the only reason worth listening
2
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Sat Oct 30 2021
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
We are the Robots!
4
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Tue Nov 02 2021
Different Class
Pulp
The question isn’t whether it’s a 5, it’s are there any better albums out there?
5
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Wed Nov 03 2021
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
Maybe not the greatest day I’ve ever known, but up there
4
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Thu Nov 04 2021
Future Days
Can
Experimental, but worth a listen
3
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Fri Nov 05 2021
Shadowland
k.d. lang
Inoffensive, but that’s about it
2
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Sat Nov 06 2021
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
If I was in a Wild Wood, I’d listen to it
3
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Sun Nov 07 2021
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
Do-do do-do doo do-do doo doo
4
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Tue Nov 09 2021
All Directions
The Temptations
Scrapes a 3 with Papa Was A Rolling Stone tipping the balance
3
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Wed Nov 10 2021
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
Scrapes a 4, mainly for nostalgia
4
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Thu Nov 11 2021
Happy Sad
Tim Buckley
Helen thinks I’m being generous with a 2
2
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Fri Nov 12 2021
Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Alright. Doubt I’ll ever listen to it again.
2
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Sat Nov 13 2021
Achtung Baby
U2
It’s easy to forget how good U2 actually were at one point
4
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Sun Nov 14 2021
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Am I missing something?
2
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Thu Nov 18 2021
Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
Oxygene 4 literally
4
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Sun Nov 21 2021
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
A bonus point for White Winter Hymnal
4
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Fri Nov 26 2021
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
Sounds like I’d expect a 1960 live album to sound
2
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Sat Nov 27 2021
Elastica
Elastica
Classic Brit Pop
4
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Thu Dec 09 2021
Snivilisation
Orbital
Sounds like Orbital to me!
4
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Fri Dec 10 2021
Black Monk Time
The Monks
Punk got better
2
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Sat Dec 11 2021
Protection
Massive Attack
Doing so much damage
4
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Thu Dec 16 2021
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz club
2
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Fri Dec 17 2021
Pretenders
Pretenders
Special. So special.
3
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Tue Dec 21 2021
Low
David Bowie
It’s got Sound and Vision, but he’s done better
3
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Wed Dec 22 2021
Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
Somewhat offensive English!
2
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Thu Dec 23 2021
The Slider
T. Rex
Metal guru! I always wondered what they were saying!
3
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Fri Dec 24 2021
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
If that’s their most accessible album, I hate to think what the others sound like!
1
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Mon Dec 27 2021
Street Life
The Crusaders
Street Life!
3
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Mon Jan 03 2022
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
Whimsical
3
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Tue Jan 04 2022
Dust
Screaming Trees
Decent 90s indie
3
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Thu Jan 06 2022
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
Kate Bush without the catchy numbers
2
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Mon Jan 10 2022
Shalimar
Rahul Dev Burman
A solid 2 for its whimsical nature
2
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Tue Jan 11 2022
Forever Changes
Love
I want to be a hippy…
Well, actually, I don’t if it means listening to that
1
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Fri Jan 14 2022
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
They are NOT the Kings of Rock n Roll
2
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Tue Jan 18 2022
In Rainbows
Radiohead
It’s great. But not quite at The Bends/ OK Computer levels
4
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Wed Jan 19 2022
New Wave
The Auteurs
Generic indie
3
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Thu Jan 20 2022
Low-Life
New Order
Maybe not their best, but still good enough for a 4
4
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Fri Jan 21 2022
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
Classic indie
4
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Wed Jan 26 2022
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
Great singles, but too much filler for a 5
4
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Thu Jan 27 2022
Hms Fable
Shack
Generic 90s indie
3
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Fri Jan 28 2022
O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
Straight Up!
2
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Sun Jan 30 2022
The Stranger
Billy Joel
Generic.
2
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Wed Feb 02 2022
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
Sounds like a folk album
2
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Thu Feb 03 2022
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett
Above-average background piano jazz
3
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Fri Feb 04 2022
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
It’s not quite Different Class
4
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Sat Feb 19 2022
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
The cool shoeshine
4
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Mon Feb 28 2022
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
For now and ever
4
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Mon Mar 07 2022
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
The big wheel keeps on turning…
5
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Mon Mar 14 2022
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
Sympathy for the devil if he has to listen to the filler
3
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Tue Mar 15 2022
Who's Next
The Who
The Who?!
3
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Wed Mar 16 2022
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
American Girl is worth waiting for and adds a point.
3
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Thu Mar 17 2022
Basket of Light
Pentangle
Folky nonsense
1
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Sat Mar 26 2022
Either Or
Elliott Smith
Seems a cheery fellow
3
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Mon Mar 28 2022
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
A bonus point for the Grapevine cover
3
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Tue Mar 29 2022
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
A bonus point for That’ll be the Day
3
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Fri Apr 01 2022
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
Old school heavy rock
3
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Thu Apr 14 2022
Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp
I like Goldfrapp - but I think they’ve done better
3
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Tue Apr 26 2022
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
Call the Police!
4
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Thu Jul 21 2022
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
A spoonful weighs a ton
5
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Sat Jul 23 2022
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
Classic indie disco
4