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Aug 17 • 38856 Views • Comments Off on Mighty Organ – Top Ten Reggae Organ Classics
In 1968, when the rest of the world were feeling the summer of love, Kingston Jamaica was bubblin’ hot. The choppy organ sound that had long been a bit-player in the ska and rock steady scenes had taken a new turn to emerge as a central anchor for
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Aug 13 • 8727 Views • Comments Off on Where Did Our Love Go?
As a child I was spoilt rotten by beautiful women. It’s true. The glamourpusses on TV – Shirley Bassey, Diana Ross, Martha Reeves – were just like my mum and her fabulous sisters, still teenage or thereabouts. All makeup and powder and
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Aug 10 • 10216 Views • Comments Off on Crown Prince Dennis Brown
Around 79-80 all the biggest reggae sounds came on big thick disco 45s. 12″ sized vinyl on the first flight from Jamaica that tended to featured a hit song (not infrequently a re-cut of a rocksteady hit everyone in Jamaica knew well), mixed to a wicked
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Aug 5 • 8963 Views • Comments Off on Motorhead – 1916
Commemorating the great war in song is a serious business, and yet it’s the heartfelt works that spring to mind on the anniversary. Lemmy Kilmister was and still is one of British rock’s legend outsiders. Never taken seriously by critics, he was
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Jul 30 • 4447 Views • Comments Off on Shipbuilding
The song Shipbulding came at us quite literally out of left field. Written by a singer still struggling to to shake off a superficial “angry brainic” persona – Elvis Costello – in response to a complicated political war.
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Jul 27 • 3682 Views • Comments Off on Whole Lotta love
As a kid living in a coalfield backwater and getting into punk rock there was a big local problem. Everyone else. At 15 it was clear that all my musically-inclined peers were into traditional long haired rock, and Led Zeppelin were, at the time, considered