some times a song will creap up from behind you, and get's it's self stuck in your consciousness,
This is a 8min long single, just grows and grows untill you have a monster romping through yout brain.
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It's easy to dismiss new bands like this as they wear their Bowie, Japan and Joy Division records on their sleves. But there is something more here, Bowie never sounded so desperate, so urgent. Given thier sound It seams approiate to paraphrase the great Tony Wilson from Factory Records here " Many bands can say the simple words "fuck you", but few band can express more, few bands can say " I'm fucked" "
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here's a song you need to have in your collection.
The killing joke were scary and dark, ( they described them selves as "the sound of the earth vomiting".) and shouldn't have been gracing the Pop charts, but some how they did. This is there most commercial track from their fifth album filled with there usual mix of metallic guitar and danceable rhythm.
This is an album for every collection
Also see the Killing Joke from the same album the track "Eighties", which was stolen by Kurt Cobain, but that's another story
The story of nick drake is one of the saddest in modern music, He died of an overdose of antidepressants at the age of 26 leaving us with but 3 albums
this song is one of his finest, it a beacon of light in his depression, it is in fact the perfect love song, from his most pop album. Don't let the production of the rest of this album through you off,
If you haven't already it's time for you to add nick drake to you collection, and I can't think of a better play to start than here
Out of the ashes of the pixies and the Throwing Muses, comes the breeders. The ewok opening opens up into a wall of guitar feedback, before settling into a groove which will get you hips swinging. It is the perfect mixture of smooth melodies punctuated with spiky guitars.
everyone much have a copy of this song,
The first time I head this song it scared me, and still today this song will send shivers down my spine. Strangely this song about death row, from a prisoners point of view was the point where nick cave was accepted buy the mainstream. Finally the world understood His black sence of humor
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The song is such a sad song, It is the the come down from the overdose which is the rest of the album.
Jane is a real person who was addicted to heroin, and was always "Goin' Kick Tomorrow"
This is the sound of a band with their soul laid bare.
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Some times music should scare you, it should challange the way you look at the world, the way you listen to all other music. this track does that and more,
It's Dance music you can't dance to/
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The Human League, are often dismissed as "Tacky Synth pop one hit wonders" But under this pop edge is a art band trying to get out, They were consatly reinventing, and pushing their boundries. This was the lead single for the bands 4th album, where they recreated themselves yet again.
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