Compilations like The Factory Singles aren’t meant to tell the whole story of anything: familiar rushes, quick hits, skippable stuff … More
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The Durutti Column – The Return Of The Durutti Column (45th anniversary) Review
Vini Reilly wasn’t feeling great. Suffering from depression after the version of The Durutti Column which had appeared on the … More
Northside – Chicken Rhythms (RSD 2024) Review
What became known as Madchester had a few antecedents, but musically if you want to go back, at least some … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #75 Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark – Electricity
Released : 1979 It’s nice to know that, even in 1979 when the earth wasn’t baking itself to a crisp … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #15 Joy Division – Isolation
Released : 1980 Almost every book you read about Joy Division or Ian Curtis seems to have the same remarkable … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #19 Happy Mondays – Wrote For Luck
Released : 1988 So concerned was Tony Wilson about the Happy Mondays increasingly chemical lifestyle at home in Manchester that … More
The Voice Of Unreason 