1970s

Moving Pictures by Rush (1981)

Just to nail my colours to the mast; I don’t like prog rock, I find its overly long, meandering song structures and autistic twenty-something-never-felt-the-touch-of-a-woman lyrics

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1980s

True by Spandau Ballet (1983)

The “battle of the bands” marketing gimmick had its roots in the 1960s, in the manufactured confrontation between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and

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deep dives

Blur, deep dive (part II)

Continued from part I. Blur (1997)The second half of the 90s was punctuated by a succession of Britpop hangover records, in which the scene’s buccaneering

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