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‘Cept, Not Suck
I was a high school loser, never made it with a lady 'Til the boys told me something I missed Then I took a record added Lego to give some flavour So I gave her just a little kiss, like this NB:...
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Mind Your Manners Or You’re Dead
Press play, your ears will thank you for it: If I could magically learn one guitar riff perfectly, without all that dreadfully unbecoming practice and bleeding fingers jazz, then it would be...
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I Need All The Peepers I Can Find
This New Year's Eve was the final barrier Dominance! Submission. Radios appear. We took you up and we put you in the back seat Dominance! Submission. Radios appear. You want a perfect song? You want a...
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Love/Haste
So back in 1992 Love/Hate got Wasted In America and as much as I loved them I was too busy spending all my hard-earned dishwashing money on getting Wasted In Wales to buy LP secundo at the time. So I...
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96 And 98 St Marks Place
I’m not a big one for rock pilgrimages but on our first day in New York for our 10th wedding anniversary Mrs 1537 and I braved a bitterly cold and snowy East Village morning to find 96 and 98 St Marks...
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Psyched Öut And Furiöus
I cannot answer on your behalf dear reader but in these uncertain times I do occasionally feel in need of some moral guidance and rectitude from my favoured recording artists. Today’s lesson comes...
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FFS Blackmore!
It was my mate Andrew who first played me Rainbow Difficult To Cure one night when I stayed over at his. He told me that the guitarist had been in Deep Purple and that Rainbow were excellent, although...
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Sixteen Vestal Virgins, Please
This review may be slightly redundant as the greatest mind of our generation once wrote about it thusly: The influential NWOBHM compilation Metal For Muthas, which helped launch the careers of Nutz...
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At Length Did Cross An Albatross
At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name I do love me a slice of old Sam Tay C and his ‘Rime syndicate. The plot of...
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Let Them Entertain You
Can a Queen LP ever be considered a hard rock ‘hidden gem’ or is that just crazy talk, fuelled by an excess of custard creams and several late nights? Welcome to the 9th LP I ever bought* and my first...
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