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March 8, 2006Worms don’t dance
Cat Power’s ‘The Greatest’ and Beth Orton’s ‘Comfort of Strangers’
Robert Forster
Robert Forster WRITERS & CONTRIBUTORS
69 ENTRIES Robert Forster is a singer-songwriter and co-founder of The Go-Betweens. His collection of music criticism, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, was published in 2009.
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February 8, 2006Welcome to the new Neil
Master producer Rick Rubin’s reinvention of Neil Diamond
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December 7, 2005Nihilistic ear-worms
Franz Ferdinand, the band that changed the rock song
Rolling Stones
November 2, 2005Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No)
When mention is made of a new Rolling Stones album the mind immediately races back to their golden period, that evocatively named series of records from Beggar’s Banquet in 1968 to Exile on Main St. in 1972. Before that were the singles: “Satisfaction”, …
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October 5, 2005Soft touch
Falling for Nana Mouskouri
arts
September 7, 2005‘Honeycomb’ by Frank Black
This is a Sunday afternoon barbecue record: people milling about, sausages turning, maybe some Mexican beer. “Who’s this?” someone asks. “It’s the guy who used to be in The Pixies,” someone else replies. There are blank looks until another …
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August 3, 2005Red rage in the brambles
The strange and the strangely familiar lurk in ‘A River Ain't Too Much to Love’
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June 1, 2005Day of the skinny insect
Ballads, blues, babes and a man still expressing himself: ‘B-sides and Rarities’ by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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May 4, 2005Delirium in the temple
‘I Am a Bird Now’ by Antony and the Johnsons