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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
402) Wooden Shjips - V
A request, not mainstream and I have heard of them, what’s going on? Now when I say I have heard of them, that’s it, I have never actually heard a note, have no knowledge of what they are like and despite racking my brain cannot for the life of me think why I know them. Time to turn to the internet. Formed in 2009 in San Francisco they are a four-piece band who have released five studio albums but there has been no recent music from them since this record was released in
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401) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
I really could not get into Arctic Monkeys last two albums a more sophisticated sound and Alex Turner as a lounge singer, maybe they are works of genius but after one listen, I couldn’t face listening to them again. Some bands I love, I won’t mention them again as I feel I may have mentioned them before! There are other bands that I appreciate but I know I will never love and that’s how we arrive at Arctic Monkeys, they have two songs I personally think are classics and some
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400) New Order - Technique
Mojo magazine recently had the headline New Order Reunite? I’d rather die. Me and everyone with a slight interest in New Order knew it would be Peter Hook talking. Hook, as well as his years in Joy Division, was in New Order from 1980 – 1993 and 1998 to 2007 so has been out of the band for nearly twenty years but with them being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Hook has made it clear he will never appear on stage with Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian
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