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by Jeremy Taylor
I’d been aware of Warren’s music for quite some time (mostly things like “Werewolves Of London” or “Carmelita”), but for some reason I never took a...
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by Jeremy Taylor
I was handed this album as a “$7.99 SALE!” bestickered CD by my therapist in 2002.
I’d started my dream job as a graduate, got some money in my...
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by Jeremy Taylor
In the August school holidays of 1989 I was 17 and working in the upstairs 2nd hand department at Echo Records in Christchurch. My music tast...
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by Jeremy Taylor
I blame Mike Flowers. Honestly.
1996 had kicked off a pretty cool year. I was in Year 11 and hadn’t really been interested in music. I liked...
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by Jeremy Taylor
The romantic, passionate voice, songs and attitude flamed throughout the first album from the five piece Mink DeVille in 1977.
Fresh from...
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by Jeremy Taylor
In 1993, I was immersed in my first year study of composition at what is now known as The New Zealand School of Music. My lecturer, Jack Body, po...
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by Jeremy Taylor
I can remember the exact moment my brain exploded. It was 1981, in Edinburgh, and I was in the basement bedroom of my flatmate Colin, who playe...
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by Jeremy Taylor
Fraser Lewry on Butthole Surfers’ “Locust Abortion Technician”
My first love was rock music with a capital R: AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Dee...
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by Jeremy Taylor
Riki Gooch on İlhan Mimaroğlu and Freddie Hubbard’s “Sing Me a Song of Songmy”
During the early 2000s, I frequently found myself in the esteeme...
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by Jeremy Taylor
I had just turned 14. Things had gone a little pear-shaped in my family. Things were happening; the house was overcrowded, and my Dad was away ...
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by Jeremy Taylor
When I was sixteen my father died suddenly. I had just left school and was living in my first flat, partying too hard, working as little as poss...
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by Jeremy Taylor
British singer/ songwriter Kirsty MacColl’s second album “Kite” was released in 1989. I was in my final year of high school in Timaru, and I bou...
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