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The Triffids: All torch songs, all good luck charms, all winters
Cover art for 'Born Sandy Devotional' by The Triffids What use eyesight if it should melt? When you move from one end of the world to the other, the colour of money changes, and so does the colour of...
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The Cure – Disintegration
If Standing on the Beach – their first and best singles collection – is included, The Cure released one album for every year of the 1980s, except for 1983 and 1988 – the latter, of course, the year of...
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The Smiths
The Smiths, regarded by many critics as the finest guitar band of the 1980s, have always ignited contrary passions. Ferociously snobbish punks, who wouldn’t otherwise be caught dead listening to...
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The rise of the compact disc
The first album to sell one million copies on compact disc alone was Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, a fact that does nothing to boost this writer’s faith in the collective good taste of humankind....
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If you care to watch the 1984 Band Aid video, ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ (I advise you think carefully before doing so), you will see some of the worst haircuts ever sported by humankind – or...
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