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Cynical Canadian bibliophile/writer guy into music, sports (lifelong Caps/Jays fan), contemporary literature and poetry, foreign film and used bookstores and booksales. Not much else.
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Four-Song Peel Session of British alternative band Curve from February 11, 1992. Two songs from the album Doppelgänger. Length: 17:56. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HEeE...

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Television performing "In World" live on Jools Holland in 1992. Song was from that year's self-titled comeback album, the band's third LP and first since 1978. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1awg...

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Primal Scream performing "Don't Fight It, Feel It" live on The Late Show in 1991. The late and sorely missed Denise Johnson on vocals. From the album Screamadelica. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_r...

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D.C. punk icons Fugazi performing "Repeater" live in their hometown in February 1991. Title track to the band's second album from 1990. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsx...

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1991 song "Ascension Day" by Talk Talk. From the band's fifth and final album, Laughing Stock, which is often regarded as a post-rock classic. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGHw...

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Tears for Fears performing "Advice for the Young at Heart" live on Arsenio Hall in February 1990. Song from the 1989 album The Seeds of Love. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t986...

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Lester Sterling, Jamaican trumpet player and saxophonist best known as the alto sax player for legendary ska band The Skatalites, died at age 87 in 2023. The Skatalites performing live in 1990, with Sterling on alto sax. Length: 1:03:52. #Ska #SkaMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-6s...

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Pixies performing "Nimrod's Son" live in 1989. Song from the band's debut EP Come On Pilgrim, which was produced by the late Gary Smith. m.youtube.com/watch?v=om04...

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Poster for the doomed Kings of Independence German music festival from August 1987. Despite the great lineup, it only lasted two dates as tickets were oversold and angry fans caused havoc outside the venues. #FallFriday

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Brix Smith on the cover of British weekly Sounds on February 21, 1987. #FallFriday

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The Fall live in Newcastle with the double drum assault in November 1983. Introduced by John Peel. #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Nk...

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The Fall's 1991 cover of Big Bopper's "White Lightning". Official video. On non-vinyl versions of Shift-Work album. #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwad...

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Three-Song Peel Session of the Butthole Surfers from September 20, 1988. Length: 11:17. m.youtube.com/watch?v=cs4k...

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1969 rocksteady cover of the Bee Gees classic “To Love Somebody “ by reggae artist Busty Brown, backed by The Upsetters. Produced by Lee “Scratch” Perry. Originally on the album The Upsetter. #Rocksteady m.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCW...

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1992 New Orleans jazz tune “Walkin’ Home” by the collaboration Donald Harrison Jr. (sax) and Dr. John (piano). from the album Indian Blues, which gained more exposure after songs from it were used in David Simon’s HBO series Treme. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4grb...

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1978 dub piece “Compelled” by Cosmic Idren. Produced by Dennis Bovell. Can be found on the Bovell V/A production anthology Sufferer Sounds. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZt...

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1967 cover of the Tomorrow song “Shy Boy” by British pop band Kippington Lodge. Produced by Mark Wirtz. The band later became pub rock favourites Brinsley Schwarz. On the Wirtz V/A collection Dream, Dream, Dream: The Anthology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5F...

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Sinead O'Connor performs "Never Get Old" live at London's Dominion Theatre in June 1988. Song from her 1987 debut album The Lion and the Cobra. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dym...

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English reggae band Aswad live at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1988. Length: 1:04:39. #Reggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=DPtt...

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Sonic Youth perform the song "Schizophrenia" live in the 1991 film THE YEAR PUNK BROKE. Song the opening cut on 1987 album Sister. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_b...

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Bob Dylan with the Grateful Dead performing “Chimes of Freedom” live in a 1987 concert. Originally on Dylan’s 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q86...

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The Bangles performing "Want You" live in a 1986 Pittsburgh concert. Written and sung by lead guitarist Vicki Peterson. Song from the group's self-titled 1982 5-song EP. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yUFN...

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Talk Talk performing "Such a Shame" live at a 1986 Montreux concert. Song was the second single released from the group's second album, It's My Life, and was a Top Ten hit in many countries in continental Europe. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t871...

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The Sisters of Mercy performing "Amphetamine Logic" live at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1985. Song written by the group's founding member Gary Marx. From the goth rock's band debut album First and Last and Always. m.youtube.com/watch?v=GPc7...

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The late reggae singer-songwriter Dennis Brown was born in 1957. "The Crown Prince of Reggae" performing "Revolution" live in 1985, as broadcast on UK show The Tube. Sly & Robbie as the rhythm section. #Reggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=rSGi...

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The Long Ryders performing "Wreck of the 809" live in San Francisco in June 1984. Written by Tom Stevens, the group's late bassist. From the group's debut album, Native Sons. m.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Lh...

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Welsh synth pop band Freur performing "Doot Doot" live in 1983. It reached #59 on the UK chart. From the band's self-titled debut album. Band members Karl Hyde and Richard Smith would achieve success in the 1990s as members of electronica group Underworld. m.youtube.com/watch?v=u5QR...

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British new wave band Fun Boy Three performing live on German show Rockpalast in May 1983. Length: 1:06:16. #NewWave m.youtube.com/watch?v=fyc5...

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Ranking Roger, vocalist for The (English) Beat and General Public died at age 56 in 2019. The (English) Beat performing ""Get a Job" and "Stand Down Margaret" live at The US Festival in 1982. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_L...

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British post-punk band The Sound perform "Monument" live on Spanish show La Edad de Oro in 1984. Song from 1982 album All Fall Down. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZH...

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Jazz singer/pianist Andy Bey has died at 85. Bey, a member of an artistic family which included his sister Canadian jazz icon Salome Bey, was known for his multi-octave vocal range. Andy Bey performing live in NYC in 2014. Length: 56:53. #Jazz #RIPAndyBey m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybbv...

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Morris Day, American musician, composer, actor and frontman for Minneapolis R&B band The Time, was born in 1957. The Time performing live in concert in Houston in December 1982. Length: 45:22. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zflS...

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2004 cover of the Ben E. King song “Till I Can’t Take It Anymore” by The Beautiful South. From their covers album Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs. m.youtube.com/watch?v=X4gK...

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Jamaican roots reggae group Black Uhuru performing live at London's Rainbow Theatre in 1981. Length: 48:49. #RootsReggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NRQ...

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Marco Pirroni, lead guitarist and co-songwriter for new wave band Adam and the Ants, was born in 1959. Adam and the Ants performing live in Tokyo in October 1981. Length: 54:45. m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPQ1...

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Full performance of Throbbing Gristle live at Oundle School in Peterborough, England in March 1980. Length: 55:44. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pkf9...

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Jazz trumpeter Sam Noto performing the Stan Kenton tune "Hymn" live on Canadian TV in 1980. Introduced by Canadian jazz musician Guido Basso. Quintet includes Dave Young and Bob McLaren. #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1iw...

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