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Album Review: Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3, "Goodbye Oslo" (Yep Roc)

I do consider myself a Robyn Hitchcock [ tickets ] fan. However, when the guy misses the mark, he's proven himself to be reliably annoying. Full Article at LiveDaily

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Related Quotes

  1. You hide the money in the bank/ The money has no shame/ Shame corroded you/ But you don't know my name
    – Robyn Hitchcock SOURCE: diamondback online 9 months ago
  2. These early tracks were all instrumental, save a few vocal samples, and created using one sampler/synthesizer, a Kurzweil K2000s, and some basic MIDI sequencing software ... A couple years ago, I decided to listen to a bunch of old DATs of stuff I had worked on. Although a lot of it was rough or unfinis...
    SOURCE: Wired 9 months ago
  3. The title refers to two long nights spent in Oslo in 1982 by Morris Windsor and myself with some friends ... The album, in part, celebrates the ghosts of the smoke age, and the various ways they were wrecked but still sailed on. That's the way it is with humans. You could call it the comfort of doom. Go...
    – Robyn Hitchcock SOURCE: CD Times 9 months ago
  4. It’s a film that seemed to be on all the time when I was on tour ... By the fifth time I saw it, I became addicted to it. It’s taken a very strange hold on my life.
    – Robyn Hitchcock SOURCE: Irish Times 10 months ago
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