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The Poet's Dog

Patricia MacLachlan and Kenard Pak

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Teddy is a gifted dog. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets...

Writers' Block

Judith Flanders

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Latterly published as A Murder of Magpies. You know when you have one of those days at the office?...

Vince Clarke recommended Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark in Music (curated)

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

1980 | Alternative, Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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"I'd agree that they were ahead of their time, they were quite minimalist really. Minimal electronic music. When I heard the b-side of 'Electricity', which was a track called 'Almost', that was like hearing Simon & Garfunkel, only in an electronic world. The songs were really simple, there was heaps of emotion in that particular track. It was a record that everybody had in my group, and we all played it at parties and danced to it. I say 'dance', I am not Saturday Night Fever, I'm working on it. I'm trying to break the moonwalk at the moment. 'Electricity', I didn't know what it was about, it just sounded really really exciting. They were a prog rock band in the old days apparently. I was telling the keyboard player about my admiration for 'Almost' and he said, "Yeah that was one of our old prog rock songs, there were seven people in the band"."

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