English Dogs – Mad Punx & English Dogs 1983 – 1985 (Cherry Red)
My relationship with English Dogs is an odd one. I first heard them at the tail end of my thrash metal phase, and they were just that bit too punky for me at the time. Then…
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Angelic Upstarts – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place/ 2,000,000 Voices (Cherry Red)
This two-disc set compiles the second and third albums from this punk rock institution from South Shields in the North-East of England. Heading way back to 1980 We Gotta Get Out Of This Place opens…
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GBH – The Complete Singles Collection (Cherry Red)
After the class of 77 had done their punk thing, and “serious” journalists wrote the movement off as a temporary stain on the musical landscape, the kids of 82 snatched it out of the…
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Clutch – Songs Of Much Gravity 1993 -2001 4xCD Box Set (Cherry Red Records)
Has there ever been a more reliable band than Maryland stoner/hardcore/agit rockers Clutch? Since their debut album in 1993 right through to modern day, they have remained consistent in their combined musical attitudes, whilst still…
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Slaughter and the Dogs – Do It Doggy Style (Expanded album) 3xCD (Cherry Red)
Now I have to be honest here and admit that Slaughter And The Dogs are a band I’ve never really given a lot of time to. Amidst the thousands of bands I’ve listened to over…
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The Partisans – 1981-84 – 3xCD (Cherry Red Records)
Three CD retrospective of the Cornelly/Bridgend legends featuring the band’s debut Self-Titled album, 1984’s Time Was Right and an album of rarities recorded between ’81 and ’84. Raw and fully of youthful energy – it’s…
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Vice Squad – The Albums 1981-84 CD Boxset (Cherry Red)
Whilst not setting the world alight as much as some of their peers did in 1979, Bristol’s Vice Squad carved out their own little niche in the crazy world of punk, thanks in no small…
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King Prawn – The Fabulous New Sounds Of… (Cherry Red)
Some infinitely wiser than me fellow once said that you should try everything once and never being one to ignore rational advice, and just a mere three decades after they first released their first record,…
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Alexandros Anesiadis
You may not have heard of Alexandros Anesiadis, or Alex as he’s known to his friends, but I guarantee you that by the time Summer is over, he’s going to be one of your favourite…
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Bad Manners – The Albums: 1980-85 5xCD Collection (Captain Oi)
By no means as serious as their Two Tone counterparts in The Selector and The Specials, nor as musically diverse as Madness, Bad Manners nevertheless carved themselves a niche in the world of Ska and…
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The 4 Skins – The Albums: 4xCD Collection (Captain Oi / Cherry Red)
Few bands have garnered as many contrarian viewpoints as London hooligans The 4 Skins; not least among the MM staff; who seem evenly split between love, hate and uncertainty. Having run a rather troubled course…
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Cock Sparrer – The Albums 1977 – 87 Boxed CD Set (Captain Oi)
Hot on the heels of Captain Oi’s Angelic Upstarts box set comes this 4 album, 53 track collection from one of my all-time favourite bands – London’s finest – Cock Sparrer. Frequently name-checked as an…
