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The Associates: Boys Keep Swinging: The Associates’ Singles

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004

All the 45s from the sublime Scottish duo who briefly threatened to run away with the ‘80s pop circus. ...

Cameron Crowe: Bringing It All Back Home

Profile by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2001

"If people have a problem with Almost Famous, what they're saying is they have a problem with my life." ...

Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 2001

BRISTOL, LIKE Manchester, was once synonymous with nervy, wired, dark white funk – The Pop Group, Rip Rig & Panic. Then the drugs changed (skunk, ...

The Divine Comedy: Regeneration

Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001

NEW SOUND but same ideals for polished popsmiths. ...

Lou Reed: The Raven

Review by Max Bell, Uncut, February 2003

Reed shows off "heavy bear" side on two-CD tribute to 19th-century poet ...

Supergrass: Diamond Hoo Ha

Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, April 2008

Britpop alumni enter their Berlin period. Sort of. ...

Van Der Graaf Generator: Present

Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2005

ALTHOUGH CUSTOMARILY associated with prog, Van der Graaf Generator were always a world away from the ridiculous likes of Yes and Jethro Tull. ...

The Associates: Reissues

Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, August 2000

Legendary Scottish duo — featuring late, great Billy MacKenzie — issue best work and pre-fame material ...

The Associates, Billy Mackenzie: Billy MacKenzie

Profile by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000

"MacKenzie's real fear was the banal actuality of pop success…to keep his perfect, impossible-past-and-future pop fantasy intact, it was necessary to destroy Associates" ...

David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds: Dancing in the Street

Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, June 1998

THE ROCK'N'ROLL documentary is in fine shape in the Nineties, thanks mainly to the BBC. Second series of both Rock Family Trees and Classic Albums ...

Scott Walker: Scott/Scott 2/Scott 3/Scott 4/Boychild: 1967-1970

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000

The Arctic explorer's '60s solo oeuvre remastered with new pix and full lyrix. ...

Mansun: Little Kix

Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, September 2000

THREE IS the magic number for Britrock alchemists ...

John Lydon: Psycho's Path

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1997

THIS IS Lydon's first solo album, recorded before and after the calamitous reunion of The Sex Pistols. You'd have thought his cup of derision would ...

Daniel Johnston: Use Your Delusion: Daniel Johnston: Fear Yourself (Sketchbook) ****

Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2003

Twenty-first album from America's startlingly original lord of lo-fi ...

The Associates: The Affectionate Punch

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 1998

THIS is impossible music. It's impossible to mimic its myriad uniqueness, impossible to place in pop time, impossible to imagine how such music could ever ...

The Delfonics: La-La Means I Love You – The Definitive Collection

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, April 1998

THOUGH THE Delfonics are now seen as archetypal icons of '70s kitsch, they recorded their best stuff, including their three big hits, before the '60s ...

Bauhaus

Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2008

They came from Northampton, in a hearse. They posed as bats, "improved" 'Ziggy Stardust', and battled malevolent energies within their own band. As another comeback ...

Richard Hawley: Lowedges

Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, February 2003

Big easy listening on second full-length album from Sheffield songsmith ...

Alejandro Escovedo: The Borderline, London

Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2003

MIDWAY INTO HIS SECOND-EVER London performance — the hottest ticket in town after his rapturously received Barbican debut five days earlier — Escovedo dedicated a ...

Chic: The Very Best Of Chic

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2000

Another Chic anthology — why buy? An intelligent sleevenote with participation from Nile Rodgers, full-length album cuts where applicable. La musique elle-meme. ...