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1989
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"There are definitely some standout moments to be found on Lopatin's messiest and least focused album. However I cant help but feel that these great musical ideas could have been improved by a more unifying and thematically consistent whole."  Reply
- NCanon | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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2018
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2024
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"When your band is the offspring of Gang of Four and XTC people are going to expect that artistically you can bring the pain so to speak. Without a doubt, Shriekback could bring it. One could argue that Shriekback didn't have the consistency over its lifespan of its parent bands, but for at least ..."  [+]  Reply
- vesander | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1985
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1972
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126
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1991
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"Hmmm. Just give us the music. As it was live. Pointless animal and insect noises with ridiculous and intentionally obvious backing vox at times, added later is just dumb. When it's just the unfiltered and raw music, it's fine. It's either live or it's not. I just don't get the concept, or maybe w..."  [+]  Reply
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2016
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1997
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"One of John Fahey's best releases. It was originally meant to be a double album, and reissues have re-included a bunch of wonderful tracks that were left out on the first release. The version of America on this is possibly my favourite moment in his entire career."  Reply
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1971
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1959
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