April 2012
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Abba - Greatest Hits Vol.2
Volume 2? What have you done with Volume 1 Mum and Dad!? Were Waterloo and Fernando not good enough for you hey? To be fair actually, I think one greatest hits record is just about as much Abba as I can listen to without wanting to plug my own ears up for good. You can therefore imagine my disappointment at attending a good friend’s wedding party recently, only to find...
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Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Another mainstreamer from the parent core collection this week, Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water is their final and most successful album, recorded in 1969 a year before their break-up. Their first break up that is – these guys split up and got back together more times than Roberto Mancini and Carlos Tevez.
In fact, this...
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The Beatles - With the Beatles
No surprises here. You know what you’re getting with the Beatles. I’m afraid my parents can’t provide a random “treat” like Marshall Hain every week. With The Beatles is their second album, recorded only four months after their debut Please Please Me - clearly an era when bands didn’t muck about when it came to producing that difficult...
