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Album puts Hulett among the best
in this country. The album, like Alistair, is intensely political, yet draws its strength from the ... feature of the album is that the potential harshness of uncompromising politics has not prevented Alistair ... Alistair Hulett's new solo album demonstrates that he has become one of the finest singer-songwriters ...
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Reggae album to celebrate democracy
is the speeches record company executives make at album launches. There they stand amongst the music ... short-back-and-sides haircuts, and predicting that the new album will be a "smash". The man from RPM records ... exile in Britain, produced the album and wrote many of the lyrics. The album's other producer is MK ...
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Penelope Swales to launch new album
Penelope Swales' album Songs from the Borderline clearly shows that she is a performer in motion. ... the end of you. I don't consider myself to be in too much risk at the moment." The album ... been writing a lot of political stuff. I find that a bit more difficult to write than about personal ...
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From political passion to pop
truly inspirational. Still political but not quite as inspirational was their 1988 album Confessions of ... album Cafe Bleu from Jean Paul Marat, "an 18th century visionary", gave an inkling of where ... explorations in music, with no lyrics at all, their politics was particularly notable in such songs as ...
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Very political tones
Very political tones Sing Out for Ireland Wolfe Tones Distributed by Larrikin Reviewed by Bernie ... lyrics that are unashamedly political. They are very much the musical ambassadors for Irish ... Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Also included on this album are songs like the "Guildford ...
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The music and politics of Judy Small
Judy Small, one of Australia's best and most popular political singer/songwriters, is ... currently touring Australia to promote her album Second Wind. She spoke to Alex Bainbridge about the ... influences on her life, her politics and her music. "I am the classic case of the conservative turned ...
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The personal and the political
The personal and the political Robyn Habel Robyn Habel Produced by Terry Bradford and Stuart Day ... tackles a range of personal and political issues on this CD, in a style that reflects her stated ... find answers, not necessarily accepting what someone else says. The album concludes on a positive note ...
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Personal exploration of politics
recent number one Irish album. "Touch the Sun" is dedicated to Sioux leader Sitting Bull, while ... politics — he doesn't set out to deliver a message. This occasionally leans towards abstraction and ...
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Sexual politics and top music
rape" — Rap Against Rape Three women make up one of Brisbane's most talented and political bands. ... The collection brings together lyrics that speak volumes about sexual politics and melodies that range ... on the CD. "Final Cry", the first song on the album, is a love song with folk harmonies and ...
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From politics to music, or vice versa
From politics to music, or vice versa By Karen Fredericks Luke Shaw, engineering student, Young ... CD, Spirit. In Brisbane during the '70s and '80s, radical politics and alternative music ... politics led to the music, or the music to the politics, but by one route or another many artists, ...
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Dirty
Dirty, the eighth album from the US thrash/grunge quartet Sonic Youth, maintains the group's focus ... on important social issues. On their 1990 album, Goo, they dealt with questions including anorexia ... about the alienation of youth from the political process in the USA, and about xenophobia and sexism. ...
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Sweet Honey's 20-year journey
experience and a political rally. The tour and recently released album Still on the Journey mark 20 years of ... gutsy feminist politics and dancy beat. The album features traditional African American spirituals, but ... Still on the Journey Sweet Honey in the Rock's 20th anniversary album Review by Carla Gorton ...
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Uneven work from the vanguard rappers
the beat never really grabs you. In many ways it is similar to Public Enemy's last album — a Fear ... of a Black Planet — which heralded a number of new directions. While still strong on the politics of ... traditional strengths of Public Enemy are expressed on this album: the diversity, the machine-gun rapping, the ...
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Public Enemy returns at last
for a lot of negative attention. In 1992, Public Enemy (after the album Apocalypse '91: The enemy ... strikes Black) released Greatest Misses, an album containing mostly remixes of old songs. Even dedicated ... Sick-n-hour Mess Age" (music and our message) proves that PE is far from over. The album peeks into the ...
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U2 works in mysterious ways
is a step away from their previous albums, which contained more directly political songs, like ... Bavaro U2's latest album indicates a frame of mind that is not part of the old U2 caricature ... album and "Silver and Gold" from Rattle and Hum. U2 songs have always tried to reconcile the ...
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Kurt Cobain
claim that Nirvana was politically progressive (one of their albums has a song called "Rape ... initial plan was to call Nirvana's latest, third, album (eventually called In Utero) "I hate ... album and provided the impetus to the "Seattle sound" (or "grunge") that has led to ...
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Buzzcocks doing their thing, again
Transmitions is their first album of new material written since they re-formed. Very little has changed since ... 1976. Their latest album is thrashy guitar chords with unusually melodic vocals, lyrics largely of the ... Buzzcocks have reached much more sophisticated levels of social-political comment and musical creativity. ...
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Ice T's gangster style
released a new rap album with which to upset the pigs, the Gores and Charlton Heston. The album has ... astute humour, cynicism, pragmatic street knowledge, introspection and relentless political opinion. ... you're at / Ya betta watch your back." This song alone makes Home Invasion a notable album. The song ...
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Tabaran
Melbourne band Not Drowning, Waving's new album. Was this to be a repeat of the Graceland fiasco, when ... sets the tone for the whole album. While NDW 's pleasant blend of mainstream pop and ambience is ... album combines the band's own songs (clearly influenced by their PNG experiences), songs written ...
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'I won't take it any more'
seem to have given up social/political comment with their latest album. Both bands could hardly be ... end of the world. Perhaps even more than in their previous album Arise, Sepultra have made a record of ... and anger there. Musically the album sits somewhere near extreme thrash metal and hardcore punk. It ...