Smash Hits.
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Feel I should defend The Mission here. I still have the vinyl I bought many years ago and listened to it for the first time in years quite recently and I still like it, I wouldn’t give it a nine though, maybe a seven 
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Sylvia Patterson’s memoir from a few years ago I’m Not With The Band is worth your time (as, from what I’ve heard, is last year’s anthology of Tom Hibbert articles)
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That their ears don’t work?
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Saw this on FB at the weekend. New Order, Kraftwerk and the Cocteaus all getting a kicking. At least DIS favourite Aretha Franklin gets pass marks. Fascinating to see the comment that the Eurythmics saved her from obscurity.
What a New Releases thread that week could’ve been!
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I listened to it for the first time in ages last year. Still enjoyed it but maybe a bit less than I did when I was younger.
In the pop world, I suppose, given her last UK top 20 single before Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves was fourteen years earlier and her US chart success mostly dried up around then too but she still had R&B chart hits, was in The Blues Brothers, I guess was still on oldies soul radio etc.
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These people were really trying to make Bucks Fizz a thing eh?
Bucks Fizz were close to the biggest band in Britain at the time, their previous two singles to when this was published were number ones.
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At least it gives Sulk a decent mark
Appetite For Destruction getting that high in the album of the decade list is somewhat equivalent of New Order getting in a Kerrang album of the decade list (which obviously they didn’t).
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Surprisingly pro goth!
That Memphis single is one of the great lost records of the 80s. It’s the sole release by the band formed by James Kirk and Steven Daly from Orange Juice.
The A-Side is great and the B-Side, Apres Ski, is even better. Going to try and find my copy somewhere in the depths.
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The same James Kirk who gave Strawberry Switchblade their name and occasionally played bass with them live? Almost like there’s a conflict of interests going on in those reviews.
The same guy.
Not too worried about conflicts of interest really. It’s not like they’re awarding a PPE contract or anything
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