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Published here http://treblezine.com/reviews/4062-Jack_White_Blunderbuss.html

A decade after coming to global prominence, it seems a little incongruous for so iconic and omnipresent an auteur as Jack White to only just be issuing his debut solo offering. It's fair to say White's career has been based on reinventing the wheel, something he and Meg got so bullseye-right, with The White Stripes' red & white take on the blues, and despite having spent much of that latter half of that time producing a continuous slew of solid offerings in three concurrently running bands, White shows no signs of slacking off or getting self-indulgent on his own time. Which isn't to say that Blunderbuss (a name that could conceivably grace a White Stripes album) is the same sort of non-stop assault of big riffs that made his assumed name, rather White uses a slightly softer pallet to make the same point.

Following the Rhodes intro of "Missing Pieces…

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1 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
(1967)
Highlights; Waiting For The Man
Venus In Furs
Heroin
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2 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
(1971)
Highlights; Maggot Brain
You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
Hit It and Quit It
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3 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
(1979)
Highlights; Candidate
She's Lost Control
New Dawn Fades
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4 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
(1981)
Highlights; Born Under Punches
Houses in Motion
Listening Wind
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5 The Congos - Heart Of The Congos
(1977)
Highlights; Congoman
Open the Gates
la la bam bam
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4 years ago on april 1st I did a 'What Country Are Your Top 100 from?' decided to do one each half year, so now it's time for the 9th one :-)

1. England (58)
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Erasure
Genesis
Spandau Ballet
Roxy Music
The Beatles
George Michael
The Power Station
Muse
David Bowie
Arcadia
Coldplay (NEW)
New Order
Ultravox
Tears for Fears
The Human League
Pet Shop Boys
Japan
Queen
Iron Maiden
Take That
Andy Taylor
Robbie Williams
Eurythmics
The Police
Def Leppard
Oasis
Bryan Ferry
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Blur
Paul McCartney
Wham!
Yazoo
The Pretenders
Kajagoogoo
Kim Wilde
Thompson Twins
The Rolling Stones
Heaven 17
ABC
Mike & The Mechanics
Morrissey
Culture Club
Placebo
Talk Talk
The Smiths
Phil Collins
Asia
Level 42
George Harrison
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
John Lennon
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Soft Cell
Judas Priest
Led Zeppelin (NEW)

…

Dance

The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love
The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
The Rapture - Sister Savior
The Rapture - First Gear
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck
Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People
Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody
HOLY GOST - I wanted to tell her
Happy Mondays - Do It Better

Classic Rock

The Who - Can’t Explain
The Beatles - Something
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
The Beatles - I Get By With Little Help From My Friends
Cream - I Feel Free
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Deep Purple - Hush
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Eric Clapton - Sunshine Of Your Love
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Led Zeppelin - Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Led Zeppelin - Since I’ve Been Loving You
Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away
Led Zeppelin - All My Love
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
Pink Floyd - Point Me To The Sky
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Secret 7”- an exciting project combining the worlds of music and art in aid of charity – reaches its climax next month, when around 700 individually-designed seven-inch vinyl record sleeves go on display at the Idea Generation Gallery in East London.

The exhibition opens its doors to the public on April 18th, in the week running up to Record Store Day, to showcase the one-off vinyl sleeve designs by a multitude of artistic and musical contributors, including the designers of some of the most iconic album artwork of the past 20 years.

The design challenge was originally set last year by a team from Universal Music UK and Teenage Cancer Trust, who offered the choice of seven different singles for which to create a sleeve. The tracks selected to inspire the art were: The Cure’s Friday I’m in Love Noah and the Whale’s Old Joy, Florence + the Machine’s Only If For a Night, Ben Howard’s Black Flies, DJ Shadow’s Come On Riding (Through The Cosmos)…