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Essential Listening: Brown Sugar – D’Angelo (1995)
Most folk only truly start to worry about their own mortality when people in their age cohort start to die. And it may be that the first one doesn’t set off the dread and fatalistic thoughts. For the obstinate hedonists … Continue reading
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Charles Manson was a person too
It was fitting that he’d finally decide to go through with it right as the rambunctious crescendo of ‘Socialist Suicide’, with its violent imagery of scabs committing various forms of the act in the safe heavens of their homogenised suburban … Continue reading
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Song Of The Day – The Best Songs Of 2016
Well friends, brace yourselves, we’ve just about reached the end of 2016. A year which became infamous for numerous famous deaths and inexplicable Black Mirrorish events. George Michael’s sudden passing makes me wonder if any of the following efforts I’ve … Continue reading
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2016
For progressives (a term I loathe personally, as it implies – and it most cases applies – a self-righteous monopoly on the truth) 2016 may well go down as one of the worst in recent memory; Brexit, Trump’s unfathomable election, … Continue reading
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Song Of The Day Special – The Purple One
There’s always a stunned reaction when someone truly famous dies unexpectedly, especially when you consider the disparity with our often blasé reaction to generic news worthy disasters that involve mass fatalities; be it plane crashes, famines or humanitarian crises during … Continue reading
Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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