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Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) by The Beach Boys

Review by Chris Roberts

Released just four months after Today! in July 1965, The Beach Boys' ninth album was at first deemed by some to be a regression. Its predecessor had, on its second side, revealed the now studio-locked, pot-guzzling Brian Wilson's knack for melancholy...

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Parade by Prince and The Revolution

Review by Mike Diver

Whereas 1984's Purple Rain had seen Prince merge the on-screen and on-record perfectly, remaining a classic to this day, Parade can't quite claim to be as essential. Again a soundtrack to one of the Purple One's excursions into cinema, it supports th...

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Who Are You by The Who

Review by kirk781

The last great Who album Many songs here have tinges of greatness in them but something or the other ( their length or the lyrics ) stops them from actually reaching their peak. New Song is a good one basically saying how self jerking the rock music ...

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Dmitry Galuscenko

Review by AFisherman

Dmitry Galuscenko is the author of several stories about computers, programming and electronics. The stories were originally published in Russian in FidoNet in the early 2000s. Later on they were republished in several magazines and books, translated...

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Karthik Calling Karthik by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Review by Jaspreet Pandohar

There's no stopping the music machine that is Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendosa. Having started 2010 on a high with the soundtrack to My Name is Khan, the trio hit the rights notes once again with Karthik Calling Karthik. Fresh and fu...

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The Very Best of Buddy Holly and the Crickets by Buddy Holly and The Crickets

Review by Chris Jones

This latest collection commemorates the 50th anniversary of the day that Charles Hardin Holley (sic) climbed aboard his last plane ride. Who, you wonder, really needs to hear the story one more time: of how the geeky boy from Lubbock Texas heard Elvi...