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A Certain Ratio - Wild Party & Inside, The Tube, 1985
While Joy Division and New Order were always the most popular and most commercially successful bands on Tony Wilson’s Manchester based FactoryRecords label, I always loved the white funk of A Certain Ratio (ACR), so it was with great anticipation and excitement that I watched [...]

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Here is a little gem from 1965. Them performing at the 1965 Musical Express Awards.
Van Morrison left the band soon after this single to persue his solo career.
Them - Here Comes The Night

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This is Primal Scream from a performance on The Word in 19991.
How good is this?
Primal Scream - Movin On Up

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This was a hit for Hawkwind in 1972. It was the definitive heavy rock track at that time.
Surprisingly it still sounds pretty good, especially the young Lemmy on vocals. Not so sure what the girls all about.
Hawkwind - Silver Machine

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This was my first intrduction to soul music in a1966 when I was ten years old, courtesey of an alder brother. Otis was THE soul man. And this is a classic soul track.
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

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