Electric Warrior by T. Rex (1971)
Seems strange in retrospect but, according to music critics like Ken Barnes and Simon Reynolds, the primary architect of 70s […]
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The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (1973)
Obviously it’s a bit of a cliché to say that the 60s were all peace, love, LSD, economic stability and
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Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin (1971)
All the hippies that I went to school with loved Led Zeppelin, which is ample reason for me to dislike
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Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones (1971)
With the hippie dream collapsing in the wake of Charlie Manson, Vietnam, and the failed student uprising of 1968, the
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie (1972)
The 60s was about Real Men making Real Rock Music – the simian swagger of the Stones, the muscular Hendrix,
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The National, deep dive (part II)
Continued from part I. Sleep Well Beast (2017)Boxer, High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me appeared within a six-year period
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The National, deep dive (part I)
Understated ‘sad dad rock’ for depressed, middle-aged, middle-class, unhappily married men, is how a cynic might characterise the National’s music.
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Alice in Chains, deep dive
Alice in Chains made no impression on me as a teenager. I grew up in the UK, where grunge in
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Abbey Road by the Beatles (1969)
As already elaborated in other reviews on this blog, I don’t care much for the 1960s, I have no special
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Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones (1969)
“That’s a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It’s apocalypse; the whole record’s like that. It’s a very rough, very violent