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There was more to the 80s than Duran Duran and massive cocaine habits, you know. Scandalously disregarding the work of Sonia, Salamander takes us through the fashions and then goes for a song coming right out of left field. The 80s, then; the decade of big hair and enough hairspray to have caused the ozone [...]
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We first caught up with Phantom about six months ago, when they were in town for the Hinterland Festival. Today sees the release of their debut single ‘The Great Pretender.’ We caught up with the guys to to see what’s been happening in the corner marked ‘gorgeous pop-noir’; Elsie Martins
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A steadfast and indisputable truth of the Universe is that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Similarly, anything a bloke tells you in a pub is gospel. Once you realise this, it opens up a plethora of facts and figures which, while sharing the common factor of being singularly useless, are nonetheless mildly interesting. Many [...]
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“Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life’s problems.” Homer Simpson. And, indeed, the great man neatly addresses the problems rock’n’roll has always had with the demon drink. It’s always been a complex affair; many bands use the juice as a creative lube, or a way of freeing their inner rock [...]
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In news certain to devastate a certain type of manic fan – i.e. all of them – Morrissey made the surprising claim that he’s reaching the end of his time as ‘the Prince of Wails’. Asked about performing past the age of 55 or 60, he described the respective chances as “slim” and “incredibly slim”. [...]
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‘Where are the songs about boozers and builders, banning the bomb and abusing the children?’ Carter USM – Do Re Mi, So Far So Good (1992) ELM, musically speaking, has a sweet tooth. Things that are wrong for you, things you should know better, we are there. Mass produced, music for the masses? We don’t [...]
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With the return of Liverpool’s Half-Man, Half-Biscuit, a band whose song titles were often the highlight of their albums, we at ELM decided to have a look at some of the best song titles in music. Some are, of course, deliberately funny; some, of course, wandered across the line marked ‘dignity’ and passed into parody. [...]
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