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100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #53 Big Black – Bad Penny

Released : 1987 Steve Albini has become better known for working on other people’s music since the dissolution of Big … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Bad Penny, Big Black, Santiago Durango, Steve Albini

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #54 The Stranglers – Golden Brown

Released: 1982 If music is in part of the reflection of the drugs taken by the people who make it, … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Golden Brown, Hugh Cornwell, Post Punk, Punk, The Stranglers

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy review

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (The last two words of their cumbersome title have now been abbreviated to just C.F.) are … More

Indie, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Sideways To New Italy

Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against The Soul reissue review

That’s the thing about love; its not only blind, its sometimes deaf and dumb as well. The Manic Street Preachers … More

Gold Against The Soul, James Dean Bradfield, Manic Street Preachers, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards

Muzz – Muzz review

Interpol front man Paul Banks goes on yet another intriguing sabbatical.

Indie, Interpol, Muzz, Paul Banks

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #55 The Sugarcubes – Birthday

Released : 1987 To many it seemed Björk Guðmundsdóttir first appeared like some pixie who’d floated in from the bottom … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Bjork, The Sugarcubes Birthday

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #56 Dinosaur Jr. – Freak Scene

Released : 1988 We tend to be quite parochial, so the history of indie rock usually gets told from the … More

Dinosaur Jr., Freak Scene, J Mascis, Sub Pop

Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 4 review

Anger is an energy. When Killer Mike – one half of Run The jewels, the rap duo which had hovered … More

#Rap, El-P, Hip-Hop, Killer Mike, Pharrell Williams, RTJ4, Run the Jewels, Zach Le Rocha

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #101 Lone Justice – Ways To Be Wicked

Editors Note: This was originally going to be in the top #100 but looking at the remaining list, it just wasn’t going to cut it in the position it found itself in. It’s still a great song though and the piece was already written, so….

Lone Justice, Maria McKee, Soul, Tom Petty, Ways To Be Wicked

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #57 A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray

Released : 1989 Gerald Simpson had been a staple amongst Manchester’s jazzdance, electro and crew scenes since the early 1980’s … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, A Guy Called Gerald, Acid House, Hacienda, Voodoo Ray

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