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#21 (1983 Part 1) Pink Floyd, Yes, New Order, Tom Waits & more

The Album Years

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John Martin's Avalon Suave

John Martin obviously did himself where he's just using the words for the sound. There's a sort of soulful sweet synthesized pop without anything you could describe as a chorus or a hook but it's strangely affecting isn't it and strangely emotional in its own kind of unhinged way. The albums ended up in cutout bins bargain bins and people just happened upon them randomly over the next 10, 20, 30 years until until they were rediscovered.

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