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Albums in 200 Words

A personal view on any album from my own collection or your recommendations
No Review is Wrong just a Healthy Difference of Opinion
390) Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
We are back on Top of the Pops, and a woman is on singing her debut hit, she’s dancing away seven months pregnant rapping and then hitting the chorus with a great voice and really annoying me. Why? I know her, I can’t think why but I know her, but this is pre internet, Buffalo Stance is a wonderful song, something fresh and she is not holding back and looks fantastic. How do I know her, over time you find these things out. I own The The Infected and there she is duetting with
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389) The National - High Violet
Now I have struggled with bands in the past, Mercury Rev and Grandaddy took ages and I’m sorry if this offends some I still can’t get Lampchop’s Nixon or anything by Tindersticks and I know I am probably wrong. I once read that The National sounded a bit like Tindersticks and because I am such an open minded man I never listened to them. It’s good to attempt to write music reviews with such an open mind. Formed in 1999 we have two sets of brothers backing lead singer Matt Ber
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388) Morphine - Cure for Pain
Know the artist like the back of my hand, have heard of them and have a good knowledge of them, vaguely think I know of them, do know them but never actually heard a song or “not got a bloody clue.” Guess what? Morphine are in the not got a bloody clue category. Time for a trawl of the internet and several listens. Morphine were together for ten years releasing five albums and tragically ended when lead singer Mark Sandman died of a heart attack live on stage and the band di
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