BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 40 In 2025

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24 December 2024

Band: NEW ORDER
Album: Low Life
Their 3rd one,
#7 in the UK.

Melody Maker said: “The album boasts the most articulate sound
since The Cocteaus’ Treasure, elevating depression to ecstasy.”

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Band: THE POGUES
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash
2nd LP, #13 in the UK.

The album’s title is taken from a quotation attributed to Winston Churchill:
“Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

NME wrote: “A collection of free-ranging stuff to be sure. It’s never
sentimental, it’s rarely polite, and it’s certainly not ordinary.”

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Artist: TOM WAITS
Album: Rain Dogs
9th LP,
#188 in the US,
#29 in the UK.

The Village Voice wrote: “Waits worked out a unique and identifiable lounge-lizard
sound that suits his status as the poet of America’s non-nine-to-fivers.”

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Band: THE FALL
Album: This Nation’s Saving Grace
8th longplayer.

AllMusic: “This collection is ample proof of the pure confidence the group had
at this time. The Fall sound mysterious, down-to-earth, and hilarious all at the
same time.”

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Band: THE CURE
Album: The Head On The Door
6th one, #7 in the UK.

Pitchfork: “Their most focused
pop album. A tight, terrific package.”

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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Thursday Afternoon

AllMusic: “Thursday Afternoon is an hour-long, uninterrupted ambient piece
created in Eno’s “holographic” compositional style, in which even the most brief
snippet of music is representative of the performance as a whole.”

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Band: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
Album: Southern Accents
Their 6th LP,
#7 in the US.

AllMusic: “An ambitious album, attempting to incorporate touches of soul,
psychedelia, and country into a loose concept about the modern South.”


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Band: THE CULT
Album: Love
Their second LP,
# in the UK.

AllMusic: “Considering the musical schizophrenia that would plague each
subsequent Cult release, Love just may be the band’s purest moment.”

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Band: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Album: Psychocandy

NME said: “A great searing citadel of beauty whose wall of noise,
once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion.”

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Band: HÜSKER DÜ
Album: Flip Your Wig
4th longplayer
#1 Indie charts UK

AllMusic: “Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing.”

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UNCUT MAGAZINE – New Issue Out With TOM WAITS As Cover Star

10 August 2023

The stories of Tom Waits unusual studio antics are legendary.

“I was impressed by the amount of weirdo instruments he had hanging
around. It’s an amazing collection. I thought, ‘Hello!’ He had a Mellotron,
like an early version of the synthesiser, which was loaded entirely with
train noises.”

This revelation, incidentally, was shared with Uncut by none other than Keith Richards, who also tells about his long, predictably colourful friendship with Waits. Besides Richards’ warm and insightful recollections, there’s a deep dive into Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Frank’s Wild Years (1987).

Also features about Sinéad O’Connor, Duke Ellington, David Bowie and more.

This’ month’s free is 12-track one new tracks from Wilco, Teenage
Fanclub, Jaimie Branch, PG Six , Buddy & Julie Miller, Slowdive
and more.

You can purchase a copy and let it be send tov your home address. Info HERE.

Amazing Album Artwork – TOM WAITS With His 8th LP ‘SWORDFISHTROMBONES’ 40 Years Ago (1983)

Eye-catching album artwork from the past

16 July 2023

Singular voice and songwriter TOM WAITS (now aged 73) released his
outstanding 8th LP, titled SWORDFISHTROMBONES 40 years ago, in 1983.


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AllMusic said: “Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed capable (though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albums), and in career terms it reinvented him.” Score: 5/5.

Artwork: A photograph by Michael E. Rush showing Waits with Angelo Rossitto (1908-1991) an American actor and voice artist who had dwarfism (2’11” / 89 cm) tall, and was often billed as Little Angie or Moe and Lee Kolima (1920-1995), also an actor who started his film career after being a professional wrestler in the 50s.

Kolima also appeared on Bob Dylan‘s album The Basement Tapes.


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TOM WAITS – ‘I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP’ 1992

12 April 2023

Artist: TOW WAITS
Born in Whittier, California 73 years ago
Active: Since 1969 / 17 studio LPs

Song/video: I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP
Album: Bone Machine (1992)

When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night
I don’t wanna grow up
Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right
I don’t wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That’s always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don’t wanna grow up
I don’t ever wanna be that way
I don’t wanna grow up

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