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Paul Connolly's CD choice for Christmas
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All
That You Can't Leave Behind
by U2 (Island) |
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Howdy
by Teenage Fanclub (Columbia) |
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All
That You Can’t Leave Behind (note the direct, non-ironic title) is
therefore a magnificent surprise... |
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The collapse of
Creation Records could be the new start that Teenage Fanclub need.
Tipped for global rock stardom in 1991...
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Stories
from the City,
Stories from the Sea
by PJ Harvey (Island) |
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Halfway
Between The Gutter and
The Stars
by Fatboy Slim (Skint) |
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Hearing
P. J. Harvey’s new album, Stories from the City, Stories from the
Sea (Universal) is like coming home to find your studious little sister
bunking off school...
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A
year may be a long time in politics, but in dance music it is an eternity.
It is now two years since Norman Cook — aka Fatboy Slim — released
You’ve Come a Long Way Baby...
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Familiar
To Millions
by Oasis (Big Brother)
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The
W
by Wu-Tang Clan (Loud/Epic)
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Oasis
have stuffed their first live album, Familiar To Millions (Big Brother),
with old hits such as Live Forever, Supersonic, Rock’n’Roll Star,
and, of course, Wonderwall...
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The
Wu-Tang Clan will for ever be judged by the standard they set with
their debut album. When the chess-playing, kung-fu obsessed, Staten
Island rappers released...
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In
The Mode
by Roni Size (Talkin'
Loud)
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Relationship
of Command
by At The Drive-In (Grand
Royal) |
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The second LP from the public face of Bristol’s Full Cycle drum’n’bass
collective, In the Mode sounds, quite simply, like the future...
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Recorded shortly
after touring as support for rock-rap agitators Rage Against The Machine,
At The Drive In's latest platter is...
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Kid
A
by Radiohead (Parlophone) |
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Advance reports of Radiohead’s
fourth album might have led you to expect an ESP jam between Pharoah
Sanders...
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