Top Of The Box

This track comes from the most successful of the bands albums, Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars, released in 1988.
This was the second single taken from the album, a beautiful track called Circle, released in 1989.
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Circle

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Hothouse Flowers came and went pretty rapidly in terms of fame and sucess. Not quite one hit wonders, the Irish rock band were courted by Rolling Stone magazine as the best unsigned band in Europe in 1986.
They were picked up by Bono and released their first single through U2’s Mother Records label. A subsequent deal [...]

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Roddy Frame / Aztec Camera - Down The Dip
As a teenager I played guitar and sang in various local post-punk groups.  My lack of ability was overshadowed by my ideas and burning desire to be a musician; and the one saving grace I had was that all the guitarists that influenced me were older than [...]

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Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding, The Old Grey Whistle Test,1982
This live performance on the BBC music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1982 is truly awesome. It was such an odd site to see a person in a wheelchair performing on a music show; and his voice was so fragile and sincere.  I fell in [...]

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Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper, promotional video, 1981
In 1981, before The Spice Girls and their limp squeal for ‘girl power’, there was Grace Jones.
Grace Jones had more ‘girl power’ than any other female performer, and was 110% more scary than Scary Spice - that’s the real one, not the Bo Selecta version.  [...]

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