UK Music

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Malefice - Dead In The Water [ English Heavy Metal ]

From the album 'Awaken The Tides'

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Looking so long at these pictures of you But I never hold on to your heart Looking so long for the words to be true And always just breaking apart

Bonus live version, from this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlFGyxsKUCQ

Robert Smith still sounds exactly the same as in the 80s.

Quite a coup getting Fred Durst onboard.

He's playing at the O2 Academy in Oxford on the 17th of October. I can't wait!

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When asked if "Happy House" was a cynical song, Siouxsie replied: "It is sarcastic. In a way, like television, all the media, it is like adverts, the perfect family whereas it is more common that husbands beat their wives. There are mental families really but the projection is everyone smiling, blond hair, sunshine, eating butter without being fat and everyone perfect".
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Great song from this London band. Catchy AF.

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LOL, I cannot believe that this hasn't been posted here already.

Here are my anecdotes regarding Radiohead…When the Pablo Honey album came out, It thought it was OK but eschewed the chance to see them play live, as I thought they were a bit of a one hit wonder…wrong. The friends who asked me to go, came back agog at the show. I got back on board with OK, Computer but mostly I can take or leave most of their discography.

Years later, I found myself living in Oxford and going to see gigs regularly at the place this video was filmed, The Venue, which had changed its name to The Zodiac. I also used to see Thom Yorke trundling his kid around in a pushchair and going to the supermarket.

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Singular and pivotal, it's the British music collective's most well known track. Robin Guthrie (guitar) and Elizabeth Fraser (vocals) from The Cocteau Twins covering a Tim Buckley song. Unique.

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Does anyone else listen to Cerys on BBC Radio 6 Music?

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A bonus track on their 1979 album Cut, this is a candidate for my Pan the on of great cover versions. Formed in London in 1976, The Slits remain one of the great post -punk bands, beloved by Cobain, Massive Attack and countless music writers.

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One of two mindblowing videos Gondry directed for the Chemical Brothers.

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Dave Gahan says: "We were using all these tape loops to create rhythms and the technology was quite advanced, but it wasn't anything like it is today, the things that you can do. We used to go into studios, and the first thing we'd do, we'd ask where the kitchen was – literally for pots and pans and things that we could throw down the stairs, and record the rhythms they would make crashing around, and then make it into loops."

John Lydon was on the radio recently discussing the background to this song, PiL's latest, and he had mentioned it before:

“A friend of ours got himself institutionalised,” he says in an off-the-cuff manner. “In other words, they put him in an old folks’ home in Britain. Because the authorities decided he wasn’t capable of looking after himself.”

His eyes then light up, and he leers towards the camera: “Well, he certainly was because, at night, he would break out, steal cars and rob supermarkets.” Rejoicing, he exclaims: “Oh, what a fucking brilliant, beautiful spirit of independence. I’m not advocating crime at all. But there he was, and he would go back to that old folks’ home and sit in his chair in the morning and go, ‘It wasn’t me!'”

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Cerebral Fix - Cultes Des Mortes [ English Thrash Metal ]

From the album 'Tower Of Spite' and also the metal compilation album 'At Death's Door (Volume 1)'.

A very rare treat here. I first discovered this band when a friend loaned me 'At Death's Door (Volumes 1 and 2)'. It was exciting. It was the first time I would ever hear Cerebral Fix, Brujeria, Sepultura and my favorite takeaway from those compilations, Fear Factory.

RIP Neil.

From the band previously known as Slaves, in fact the song is about the reaction to their name change.

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IMO the whole Britpop designation was a terrible construction of the British music press of the time. However, if I was forced to pick the music of only one of the bands with this label to take to a desert island …it might be Pulp.

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Totally should've included this in the 30 Day Song Challenge for turning it up LOUD! Fucking love this song.