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NEW VIDEO: If you were a US punk band in the 80s, you weren't doing it for the money. Punk rock was a calling. There were no material rewards. And that's what The Offspring thought too... until they became one of the biggest selling rock bands of the 90s. Hear their full story:
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NEW VIDEO: Have you ever wondered how Shaddap You Face got to number one in the UK? How about the electro-documentary of 19, or the wonderfully goofy Star Trekkin'? Here are the "how" stories for these songs, plus 7 more. The Most Bizarre UK No.1s of the 1980s. Check it out!
05.07.2025 16:32 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 5from the writer of GUY RITCHIES ALADDIN
GUY RITCHIES AMADEUS
Jason statham: name's salieri. famous fucker, me. until - *freeze frame and record scratch on mozart* this precocious prick plonked his arse at the piana fuckin forte
NEW VIDEO: The B-52's are known for many things: Wigs, Rock Lobster, that Tomacco episode of The Simpsons where they reworked Love Shack into Glove Slap. This might make you think them slight, a novelty, but they are more important than you think.
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The second instalment in the ‘alt-rock horror comics’ series - Mudhoney’s Touch Me I’m Sick.
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NEW VIDEO: My timing is terrible. TEN DAYS AGO The Cult's unifying rock anthem She Sells Sanctuary had its 40th birthday. YESTERDAY was World Goth Day. Either would've been a great day to release this video. Instead it's National Taffy day, watch a video on The Cult.
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The 7 inch sleeve of The Cult's She Sells Sanctuary
The 7 inch sleeve of The Cure's Inbetween Days
The 7 inch sleeve of The Jesus and Mary Chain's Just Like Honey
The 7 inch sleeve of Killing Joke's Love Like Blood
What is your favourite British "alternative" single of 1985?
21.05.2025 08:57 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 0
May 10th 1994
One of the greatest days
If you can’t handle me at my Dance Yourself Clean 0:00-3:05 you don’t deserve me at my Dance Yourself Clean 3:06-8:56
09.05.2025 16:35 — 👍 1216 🔁 224 💬 4 📌 5SOME ITALIAN MAIN COURSES
ARE THE ONES WITH RED SAUCES
SOME ITALIAN MAIN COURSES
ARE THE ONES WITH RED SAUCES
SOME ITALIAN MAIN COURSES
ARE THE ONES WITH RED SAUCES
SOME ITALIAN MAIN COURSES
ARE THE ONES WITH RED SAUCES
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FILLING BOLOGNESE, HUH?
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NEW VIDEO: Paul McCartney is pretty well known as a musician. But even as familiar as the former Beatle is, he still has moments in his back catalogue that hit you from out of left-field. For example learn the story of McCartney II, his 1980 homemade dive into Synth-Pop.
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A celebration of the discography of PJ Harvey via a bunch of loose, doodly sketches of album covers.
24.04.2025 15:31 — 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0This is all going to get harder, but they literally cannot legislate you out of existence. When tomorrow arrives, you will still be here, you will still be who you are, and we will all still be here with you.
16.04.2025 12:14 — 👍 1492 🔁 388 💬 11 📌 4Each video from the past year has Spotify and YouTube Music playlists. They're linked in the pinned comment on their respective videos.
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NEW VIDEO: Well kinda... Here is my revisit of the development of Synth-Pop video I made four years ago, now twice as long with a bunch of bands and artists I forgot about including Stevie Wonder, DEVO, Sparks, Yellow Magic Orchestra, John Carpenter, and many many more.
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NEW VIDEO: This time we look at Violent Femmes, their legacy as a building block in alternative rock, folk punk and alt country, “Blister In The Sun” not being a song from the 90s, and the weird moment where the band showed up on Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Check it out!
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Blue Monday is 42 years old today! Learn more about the track that truly got New Order out of the shadow of Joy Division, the vital link between "I Feel Love" and the future of dance music, in this classic episode of New British Canon.
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Gorillaz's debut single Clint Eastwood was released 24 years ago today! Learn how it all came together in this classic episode, as a quartet of cartoons introduced the world to their unique collision of trip-hop, post-punk, reggae, spaghetti westerns and George Romero.
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Tears For Fears' Songs From The Big Chair album is 40 today! Shout, shout and let it all out by watching this classic video on the boys from Bath, and learn about the struggles of making their landmark second album, as well as their darker Janov-inspired debut.
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Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.
18.02.2025 16:08 — 👍 2493 🔁 531 💬 16 📌 11Reposting for those that may have missed it: New British Canon presents the frustrated genius of "There She Goes" and The La's
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NEW VIDEO: For Valentines, here's the story of the best indie love song of the 1980s: It's The La's with "There She Goes". One of things I learnt while making this one, or at least was forced to remember, is that the middle-eight to this song is pure pop bliss. Check it out:
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Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy is 34 years old today. A now-eternal sounding collision of strings, soul and British hip-hop beats, hear the song's full story in this classic (first) episode of New British Canon.
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Jawbreaker's stellar album 24 Hour Revenge Therapy released 31 years ago today. Learn the story of the punk band that could've been the next Green Day but were undone by the scene that birthed them.
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DID YOU KNOW: Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" is 35 today? Learn the story of how the band went from a NME punching bag to Modern Rock giants by watching this classic New British Canon episode.
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For those who missed it earlier in the week: the twenty year drama of British boyband Take That.
01.02.2025 10:58 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
NEW VIDEO: Take That were the biggest boyband Britain ever produced. When they split, their songwriter Gary Barlow was the one everyone was expecting to have the unstoppable solo career. But it didn't quite happen like that. This is the flip side of Better Man.
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Can you believe it? Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers was released 45 years ago today! Why not watch this classic New British Canon episode about how this monumental single came together with a little help from Phil Collins and Kate Bush?
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NEWEST MUSIC VIDEO TIME! And we are talking about the history behind the legendary music video to A-ha's "Take on Me"! Check it out and thanks for your time. #musicvideotime
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Obligatory yearly reminder that College & Electric Youth’s “A Real Hero” is about Sully (and Mad Max)
16.01.2025 00:23 — 👍 136 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 1
