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TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ – PINK FLOYD Debut…

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‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ by PINK FLOYD
Released: 4 August 1967 / 51 years ago today

NME review: ” ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ has inspired plenty of people – Blur, The Coral, Klaxons, The Horrors, Devendra Banhart, pretty much every Home Counties art-school band ever – which makes it all the more ironic that one of the few bands that haven’t copied it is
Pink Floyd themselves. It’s down to one man, of course: before he lost his mind, Pink Floyd’s main songwriter was Syd Barrett, a sensitive, good-looking middle-class art student from Cambridge. His songs on ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ assemble a cast of cats, silver
shoes, unicorns, mice called Gerald, bikes, gnomes and the I Ching, and put them to some
of the most inventive and surprising psychedelic music ever recorded.”
Score: 9/10 – full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: Imperishable and timelessly influential classic

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TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – The Self-Titled Classic Debut Longplayer by THE B-52’s…

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‘The B-52’s by THE B-52’s
Released: 6 July 1979 – debut LP

BBC review: “By 1979 punk had gotten all grown-up. Metamorphosing into the bleaker, more serious genre of new wave, this was the dawn of the age of the long grey coat and European post-industrial chic. Therefore what a relief it was when along came the decidedly technicolour B-52’s (complete with the wayward apostrophe, grammar fans). And what an even greater surprise when, on their debut album, the band’s Dansette-style, dance-friendly pop blended perfectly with their retro new wave looks to create an all-time carefree classic.”

TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: A solid gold masterpiece, an unquestionable classic.
Still sounding crazy and totally gaga today.

THREE TOP TRACKS: Planet Claire / Rock Lobster / Dance This Mess Around

* PLANET CLAIRE

* ROCK LOBSTER

* DANCE THIS MESS AROUND

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Messy dancers / R.I.P. Ricky Wilson (2nd from left)

TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Show Your Bones’ – YEAH YEAH YEAHS

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‘Show Your Bones’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Released: 22 March 2006 – 2nd LP

NME review: “What we have here is 2006’s ‘Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ presenting themselves as a band that have cut themselves free from the fetters of a movement they helped birth and wrapped
up warm in the robe of reinvention. And what a reinvention. ‘Show Your Bones’ is resolutely autumnal. It’s gutsy, bruised, womb-warm, simultaneously tender and defiant, and just about as sprawling as you can get in under 40 minutes. Brilliant, in short.”
Score: 8/10 – Full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME: My favorite YYYs album. Tons of passion,
intensity and heartbreak wrapped in surpassing songs. Top record!

THREE TOP TRACKS: Cheated Hearts / Mysteries / Phenomena

* CHEATED HEARTS

* MYSTERIES

* PHENOMENA

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TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Bizarro’ – 2nd LP by THE WEDDING PRESENT

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‘Bizarro’ by THE WEDDING PRESENT
Released: 23 October 1989
Second longplayer

ALL MUSIC review: “The Wedding Present’s second proper studio album, ‘Bizarro’ cut down a bit on the frenetic jangle the band was known for in its early days and replaced it with healthy doses of darkness and power. Adding some fuzzy, crunchy distortion to give the guitars some hefty impact, slowing the tempos down to speeds that allow vocalist David Gedge to squeeze more heartbroken despair and bleak sarcasm out of every line, and generally upping their
game in every way, the album is the fullest realization of the Wedding Present’s sound yet.”
Score: 4/5 – Full review here.

TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s favourite tracks: Kennedy / No…

* KENNEDY

* NO

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TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘White Blood Cells’ – Third LP by THE WHITE STRIPES…

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‘White Blood Cells’ by THE WHITE STRIPES
Released: 3 July 2001

PITCHFORK review: “White Blood Cells doesn’t veer far from the formula of past White Stripes records; all are tense, sparse and jagged. But it’s here that they’ve finally come into their own, where Jack and Meg White finally seem not only comfortable with the path they’ve chosen, but practiced, precise and able to convey the deepest sentiment in a single bound. It’s hard to know at this point in the game where they’ll head from here, but what matters is right now. And right now, I want to listen to this album again.”
Score: 9/10 – full review here.

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: Pure, stripped-to-the-bone, mind-boggling blues rock extravaganza. Their first step to world fame.

THREE TOP TRACKS: Hotel Yorba / We’re Going To Be Friends / I Think I Smell Rat

* HOTEL YORBA

* WE’RE GOING TO BE FRIENDS

* I THINK I SMELL A RAT

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First gig in Belgium – AB club in Brussels in 2001 – great souvenir

TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘First And Last And Always’ by SISTERS OF MERCY

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‘First And Last And Always’ by SISTERS OF MERCY
Released: 11 March 1985 – debut LP

ALL MUSIC review: “With the band itself falling to bits shortly after the March 1985 debut of First and Last and Always, the album’s place in the skewed history of the rise of goth rock would, on one hand, be permanently linked with that discord but, on the other, not impacted in the slightest, leaving the fractious set’s success and structure to become a blueprint for an entire generation of up-and-comers. Copied to death, its brilliance has never been replicated. Indeed, the entire album remains unequaled in the genre, permanently granted top place on a pedestal from which it cannot be toppled.” – Score: 4/5 – Full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s favourite track: A Rock And A Hard Place…

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Gothic Gods…

TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘3 Feet High And Rising’ – Debut by DE LA SOUL…

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‘3 Feet High And Rising’ by DE LA SOUL
Released: 3 March 1989

BBC MUSIC review: “An acknowledged classic, De La Soul’s debut album now resides in something of a vacuum. A little like Captain Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’, this is a record
of such startling originality that was paradoxically to lead the band eventually down a creative dead end.” Full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: one of the best summer LP’s ever…

TOP TRACK: Me, Myself and I …

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TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Cupid & Psyche 85’ – 2nd LP by SCRITTI POLITTI…

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‘Cupid & Psyche 85’ by SCRITTI POLITTI
Released: 10 June 1985

ALL MUSIC review: “On their second album, Scritti Politti essentially was Green Gartside, who directed drummer Fred Maher, keyboardist David Gamson, and a multitude of studio musicians through a state-of-the-art, immaculately constructed set of catchy synth pop on Cupid & Psyche 85. The results are as impressive as Songs to Remember and produced the hit singles ‘Perfect Way’ and ‘Wood Beez’ (Pray Like Aretha Franklin).”
Score: 4.5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: funky, reaggy, poppy, joyful, and plenty of feel-good tunes…

FAVORITE TRACK: The Word Girl…

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TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – Debut LP by… THE BOOMTOWN RATS

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‘The Boomtown Rats’ by THE BOOMTOWN RATS
Released: September 1977

ALL MUSIC review: “Overall, there were enough power chords and snotty sentiments
to justify the punk tag, but it was already clear that the Rats aspired to the mainstream.”
Score: 3/5 – Full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: sounded like Bruce Springsteen going punk. The Rats penned some solid rock songs for this underrated debut, appreciated by many only after the punk hype was over. And that front sleeve is still as iconic as it was back then. My score: 4/5.

TOP TRACKS: Lookin’ After No 1 / Never Bite The Hand Feeds / Joey’s On The Streets Again

* LOOKIN’ AFTER NO 1

* NEVER BITE THE HANDS THAT FEEDS

* JOEY’S ON THE STREETS AGAIN

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(#1 – #9)

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All packed and ready to go…

TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables’ – Debut LP by DEAD KENNEDYS

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‘Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables’ by THE DEAD KENNEDYS
Debut LP – Released: 2 September 1980

ALL MUSIC review: “A hyper-speed blast of ultra-polemical, left-wing hardcore
punk, and bitingly funny sarcasm, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables stands as
the ‘Dead Kennedys’ signature statement. As one of the first hardcore albums,
it was a galvanizing influence on the musical and attitudinal development of
the genre, also helping to kickstart the fertile California scene.”
Score: 5/5 – Full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhh!

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UNITED STATES – JANUARY 01: (AUSTRALIA OUT) SAN FRANCISCO Photo of PUNKS and CONCERT POSTERS and DEAD KENNEDYS, Concert poster (Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns)