Tag: compilation
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Jon Savage Dreams of The Seventies in New Compilation
Ah, the swinging sixties. If you can remember them, you weren’t there. If you can’t remember them, you may not have been born yet, and thus weren’t there either. So no-one was there. And yet, there they are, the swinging Sixties, where everyone who now has a final salary pension scheme had more fun than…
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Why Independent Record Shops Shouldn’t Fear Sainsbury’s Compilation Albums (Too Much)
You can see why the start up of it’s own record label by supermarket chain Sainsbury’s would provoke within independent record shops the sort of confusion and suspicion you might otherwise only witness when a particularly trendy flock of sheep at an indie disco spots a wolf dressed like Kurt Cobain. Large retailers don’t have…
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Are You A Music Obsessive? Check This Scientific Test: Plus A 2013 Mixtape
How much of a music fan are you? You may be pretty keen, but just how keen? I remember many years ago someone called Danny Baker’s radio show to say he had regularly sorted through Paul McCartney’s bins and pulled out a Christmas card from one of the other Beatles. What was interesting about that, aside from…
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