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

The Album Years

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The Police's Swan Song Synchronicity

U2 REM police sort of axis this year is the police's swan song synchronicity which I think is a fantastic record and again very distinct in their catalogue but what a great way to go out isn't it? Arian: The sounds are beginning to be more processed the bigger sounds more use of delay and chorus and things like that. Bands echo in the bunny men and the chameleons are definitely reaching for something the big music to coin a mike scott song title well also vocally you know if you think about that era 77 to 82 post-punk had its own very distinct clipped vocal the cabrian.

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