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The Saints: (I'm) Stranded (1976)
Bob Geldof once observed, "Rock music of the Seventies was charged by three bands -- the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and the Saints".
That the Saints out of suburban Brisbane -- hardly the home of rock music, let alone an angry and intelligent version -- should be in that illustrious company comes as no surprise to anyone who followed...
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The Raincoats: The Raincoats (We Three/Southbound)
I'm pretty sure I shared an elevator with some of the Raincoats at a hotel in New York in the mid Nineties, but I may be wrong. And that's the end of my anecdote.
This is a reissue (The second? Third?) of their important '79 debut album when this London group of Ana da Silva, Gina Birch, Palmolive and Vicky Aspinall were hailed as the first...
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Ian Dury: Razzle in My Pocket (1977)
With Will Birch's biography and the film of his life Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll (Andy Serkis as Ian), there is something of a revival and re-appreciation of Ian Dury going on, a decade after his death at age 57.
Dury came to the punk era as someone more than a decade older than most performers, and he had considerable stage experience:...
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PET ROCKS AND PUNK ROCK: Have A Nice Decade; The '70s Pop Culture Box considered
It might have been famously "the decade that taste forgot", but the Seventies has spawned an interesting nostalgia for smiley faces (on e-mails!), terrific films such as Dazed and Confused . . . and this extraordinary box set of seven CDs which unflinchingly collects up the great (James Brown's The Payback, Freda Payne's Band of Gold...
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