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NEW ORDER – 40 Candles Today For Their 4th Album ‘BROTHERHOOD’

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29 September 2026

Manchester’s synth-guitar-pop kingpins NEW ORDER released their 4th LP,
named BROTHERHOOD on 29 September 1986, today 40 years ago.

Brotherhood saw the band further exploring their mix of post-punk and electronic
styles, with the track listing being conceptually divided into “disco and rock sides“.

Stephen Morris (drummer) said: “The album was kind of done in a schizophrenic
mood that we were trying to do one side synthesizers and one side guitars”, which
he retrospectively stated “didn’t quite work”.

The album sleeve, created by Factory Records‘ house illustrator
Peter Saville, is a photograph of a sheet of titanium–zinc alloy

It peaked at #9 in the UK, #15 in Australia
and, oops, only at #117 in the US.

UNCUT Magazine (British music monthly) “There’s an increased tension between
the frequent beauty of the music and the band’s Northern self-consciousness. This was
New Order becoming New Order and if anyone was entitled to not be Joy Division, they
certainly were.”

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The album’s only single, ‘Bizarre Love Triangle ‘, was the band’s breakthrough single
in the United States and Australia. It was the only track from the album released as
a single.

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NIRVANA And RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Released Both Blazing Albums 35 Years Ago

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24 September 2026

Band: NIRVANA
Active: 1987-1994 / 3 studio LPs

Album: NEVERMIND
Released: 24 September 1991 – 35 years ago today

It was their second and global breakthrough album.
A seminal one for the future. Copies are still sold today.

It topped the US Charts and peaked at #7 in the UK.

TUTV: The magnum opus that made grunge a worldwide (commercial) phenomenon.
Nevermind the bollocks, Nirvana rocked their asses off while Kurt Cobain focused on
his life in his impassioned songs.

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Band: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Active: 1982–present / 13 LPs

Album: BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK
Released: 35 years ago today, 24 September 1991

It was their 3rd and peaked at
#3 in the US, #25 in the UK.

TUTV: Mega punky/funky/groovy record for punky/funky/groovy parties.

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PAUL SIMON Released His Contested 7th Solo Album ‘GRACELAND’ Today 40 Years Ago

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25 August 2026

Legendary singer-songwriter PAUL SIMON, who turns 85 next October, released
his 7th album, named GRACELAND, on 25 August 1986, today 40 years ago.

Organizations such as Artists United Against Apartheid criticized Simon for breaking
the cultural boycott on South Africa imposed for its policy of apartheid, while others
accused him of appropriating the music of another culture.

Simon responded that Graceland was a political statement that showcased collaboration between black and white people and raised international awareness of apartheid. Some praised him for helping popularize African music in the West.

The album became Simon‘s most successful album and his highest-charting album
in over a decade, with estimated sales of more than 16 million copies worldwide.

Rolling Stone said: “An album about isolation and redemption that
transcended ‘world music’ to become the whole world’s soundtrack.”

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Summer Of 1996 – August 24th – British Synth Pop Duo EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Break US Chart Record Today 30 Years Ago

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24 August 2026

English dream pop duo EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (1982–2000,
2021–present) broke the all-time US chart stay record, today 30 years
ago, with their captivating, dancy hit Missing (more than 45 million
streams on Spotify) when it appeared on the Billboard Chart for the
55th week.

The record was previously held by the American soul pop band
The Four Seasons‘s 1975 hit December 1963 (Oh, What A Night).

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Released Their 3rd Album ‘KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS’ Today 40 Years Ago

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18 August 2026

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS released their 3rd full-length, baptized
Kicking Against The Pricks on 18 August 1986, today 40 years ago.

The title is a reference to a biblical quote from the King James Version
of the Christian Bible, Acts 26, verse 14.

It’s a covers LP with their take on songs by John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash,
Bill Roberts, Lou Reed, Jimmy Webb, Alex Harvey and more.

It topped the UK’s alternative album chart.

Cave: “It allowed us to discover different elements, to actually make and perform a variety of different sorts of music successfully. I think that helped subsequent records tremendously.

The songs were all done for different reasons. Basically a list of songs were made and we tried to play them. We tried songs by the Loved Ones and the Saints and all sorts of people that never got on the record.

Some songs were tributes, like the Tom Jones song “Sleeping Annaleah” other songs we didn’t think the song was ever done particularly well in the first place. Some songs had just kind of haunted my childhood, like “The Carnival Is Over”, which I always loved.

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Summer Of 1991 – August 17th – NIRVANA’s Iconic Video For ‘SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT’ Filmed 35 Years Ago Today

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17 August 2026

On 17 August 1991, today 35 years ago, the iconic video for NIRVANA
ironclad breakthrough single Smells Like Teen Spirit was shot at GMT
Studios in Culver City, CA.

Costing less than $50,000 (a bargain, when it came to
music videos at the time), the clip featured many fans.

Summer Of 1969 – August 15th – First Day Of Notorious WOODSTOCK Festival

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15 August 2026

On 15 August 1969, the notorious and historic
WOODSTOCK MUSIC AND ART FAIR kicked off
in Bethel, New York

Attended by over 400,000 people, the event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills
Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis
Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family
Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shanker, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood
Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker.

Woodstock offered the counterculture generation a respite amid the Vietnam War and unrest at home, and would become a defining moment of the era, as well as an iconic milestone in pop culture history.

The festival would be captured in a documentary
as well as a best-selling soundtrack to the film.

Summer Of 1969 – August 15th – First Day Of Notorious WOODSTOCK Festival

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Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history

15 August 2026

On 15 August 1969, the notorious WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL
at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York, kicked off.

Approximately 400,000 fans trekked to the three-day event to see acts like
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker,
The Who, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane, among 25 others perform.

Billed as Three Days Of Peace & Music, the festival offered the counterculture
generation a respite, amid the Vietnam War and unrest at home, and would become
a defining moment of the era, as well as an iconic milestone in pop culture history.

The festival would be captured in a documentary
as well as a best-selling soundtrack to the film.

THE WHO Released Their Seminal 5th LP ‘WHO’S NEXT’ 55 Years Ago Today

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14 August 2026

British rock juggernauts THE WHO released their widely praised, then and now,
5th album WHO’S NEXT today 55 years ago, on 14 August 1971.

It developed from the aborted Lifehouse project, a multi-media rock opera conceivedby
visionary guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend as a follow-up to the band’s 1969 album Tommy.

The project was cancelled owing to its complexity and to conflicts with Kit Lambert,
the band’s manager, but the group salvaged some of the songs, without the connecting story elements, to release as their next album.

It topped the UK Charts and peaked at #4 in the US.

Rolling Stone said: “Who’s Next, regardless of what you may have been led to believe
to the contrary, is neither the soundtrack to the realization of Pete Townshend‘s apparently aborted Hollywood dream, the greatest live album in the history of the universe, nor a, shudder, rock opera, but rather an old fashioned long-player containing intelligently-conceived, superbly performed, brilliantly-produced, and sometimes even exciting rock and roll.”

TUTV: For me, it’s the album with two of their 5-star
singles (see/hear below) and the stirring ballads
The Song Is Over and Behind Blue Eyes on.

– BABA O’RILEY –

– WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN –

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EELS – Mark Oliver Everett’s Orchestrated Band Released Their Masterly Debut Album ‘BEAUTIFUL FREAK’ 30 Years Ago Today

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13 August 2026

Much-lauded Los Angeles-based band EELS fronted and orchestrated by
compelling singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett released their staggering
debut LP BEAUTIFUL FREAK today 30 years ago, on 13 August 1996.

It was the first album as Eels, but before, Everett
already produced 3 LPs under his own name

#5 in the UK / #114 in the US

Artwork: Everett had suggested having a little girl with big eyes on the cover.
The girl that came in to have her picture taken incidentally looked “like a miniature
Susan” to him, referring to his ex-girlfriend and the subject of the song ‘Susan’s House‘.

Q magazine wrote: “A complete musical vision, a genre-spanning
soundscape that reels you in with its myriad hooks.”

TUTV: This debut still stands out on Eels‘ catalog (15 LPs so far,
and #16 Cookie Happened, landing on October 16th).

Striking Singles.

– NOVOCAINE FOR THE SOUL –

– SUSAN’S HOUSE –

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