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Bebel, Delfini (Zagreb) 1967: The Rise of Yugoslavian Mods

Bebel, Delfini (Zagreb) 1967: The Rise of Yugos...

Bebel, Delfini 1967: The Rise of Yugoslavian Mods In the 1960s, Yugoslavia stood apart from the rest of the Communist world. While it remained a socialist state, it followed its...

Bebel, Delfini (Zagreb) 1967: The Rise of Yugos...

Bebel, Delfini 1967: The Rise of Yugoslavian Mods In the 1960s, Yugoslavia stood apart from the rest of the Communist world. While it remained a socialist state, it followed its...

Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks 1968

Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks 1968

Village Green Preservation Society is the Kinks greatest album.   Not only is it musically and lyrically brilliant, but it does something unique - it makes a long term leftie like...

Village Green Preservation Society, The Kinks 1968

Village Green Preservation Society is the Kinks greatest album.   Not only is it musically and lyrically brilliant, but it does something unique - it makes a long term leftie like...

Motor Cities Burning, John Lee Hooker 1967

Motor Cities Burning, John Lee Hooker 1967

Motor Cities Burning People.  Most who know this song are more familiar with the heavy cover version by the MC5, released 2 years after the original.  For me, this is...

Motor Cities Burning, John Lee Hooker 1967

Motor Cities Burning People.  Most who know this song are more familiar with the heavy cover version by the MC5, released 2 years after the original.  For me, this is...

Everything Sounds Like Eno

Everything Sounds Like Eno

I love Brian Eno, or at least I love his series of solo albums he recorded after leaving Roxy Music right through to his ambient phase in the early 80s....

Everything Sounds Like Eno

I love Brian Eno, or at least I love his series of solo albums he recorded after leaving Roxy Music right through to his ambient phase in the early 80s....

Life is Life

Life is Life

Most of the songs I write about are songs that I love, and which connect with history or society in a particular way. This is a song I don’t like...

Life is Life

Most of the songs I write about are songs that I love, and which connect with history or society in a particular way. This is a song I don’t like...

What's going wrong?

What's going wrong?

A long time ago an ex-girlfriend of mine remarked on how I listened to music.  Or rather that I actually listened to music.  I would put on an LP and...

What's going wrong?

A long time ago an ex-girlfriend of mine remarked on how I listened to music.  Or rather that I actually listened to music.  I would put on an LP and...