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1997
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1995
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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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"I've enjoyed quite a lot of this wave of east coast, low fi, technically gifted rap albums but aside from Some Rap Songs I'd not found one that I outright loved. With Live Laugh Love, an Earl Sweathirt record has broken through in the same way again and though there is an abundance of carefully c..."  [+]  Reply
- JamesMowbray | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 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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2025
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1997
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"A great modern punk record, cleanly produced but with just enough DIY energy that it sounds right. I may be outing myself a little here, but punk music always sounds better when when made by socialists. However, interesting in this case (while it's invariably a left-wing project), the anti-capita..."  [+]  Reply
- Arthurknight | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 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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2022
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2007
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"The first half of the album has some killer songs with great lyrics. I especially love Golden Promises and Losing Faith in Words. The song "Flight" is not that good in my opinion, however, and is one of Peter Hamill's worst efforts. It has some good sections but it just sounds really forced."  Reply
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1980
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2001
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"A good compilation with the addition of some previously unreleased, live and demo tracks. My only gripe would be to include Buildings Have Eyes instead of Who's That? or After All."  Reply
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2000
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