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Teenage Kicks At Christmas: Treasured Moments

Two more songs by the Cocteaus in this post, both from the epochal 1984 album Treasure. Whatever ‘dream pop’ may be, this is definitely its quintessence. For this album, the more or less permanent trio of Fraser, Raymonde and Guthrie … Continue reading

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Swirly-Whirly

JOHN WALTERS: You were saying that you do like, I think you always have liked, the bands that were a surprise, they weren’t yet another blues-influenced band, whatever it was, you prefer them to say, oh this has come out … Continue reading

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Your Festive Fifty: an introduction

Readers of my blog (all five or six of you) know what the Festive 50 was: but there may be some people stumbling on this who do not know what I’m talking about. Well, John Peel, the seminal DJ who … Continue reading

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