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In Wikipedia:
Beginning in 1975, Sherbet’s records were produced by Richard Lush who had begun his career in the UK as a trainee engineer at EMI’s Abbey Rd Studios, where he helped to engineer a number of Beatles recordings including “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
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In Wikipedia:
After four years, on Autumn 1990, the band’s first recordings were released on the Nova Aleksandrija various artists compilation “Jaui do ekstaze”, featuring two of the band’s songs, along with the newly – formed acts such as Darkwood Dub, Euforia, Pressing and Klajberi.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Since 2005, Nodelman has been a core member of SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN FRANKLIN’S MINT and appears on ton’s of each band’s recent recordings and live shows.
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In Wikipedia:
“All six songs surpass the two – minute mark (“More Spiel” is nearly six minutes long) and incorporate verses, choruses, and hooks, and fade outs in contrast to nearly all the band’s previous recordings.
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In Wikipedia:
BMG continued to release her big band’s recordings in Japan, but remained skeptical about releasing the music in the United States since the 1950s, big band music has rarely achieved commercial success in the US.
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In Wikipedia:
Hit singles from the album were “If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind” (No.11 in the UK) and “When You Walk in the Room”, though many critics nominated “Sometimes When I’m Dreaming” as the stand out track, reminiscent of the quality of ABBA recordings.
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In Wikipedia:
Unknown to the rest of the band, Stephen and James created an EP entitled “Ghost” which contained all the band’s recordings and presented it to the band on September 9 2005.
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In Wikipedia:
The album is often acknowledged as being the most abrasively lo – fi in the entire Guided by Voices catalog while still often being regarded as one of the band’s finest recordings.
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In Wikipedia:
One of the band’s last recordings was a jam with extemporized lyrics titled “Platypus” – an experiment that inspired the Yuletide Jam, an annual Libertyville tradition in the 1990s.
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In Wikipedia:
This may be one of the most rare of the live Beatles recordings.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
ABBA’s recordings have sold an estimated 370 million units worldwide.
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In Wikipedia:
Along with “Surf’s Up” and “Cabinessence” it is lyrically among the most complex and ambiguous of all The Beach Boys recordings.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
ABBA’s recordings have sold an estimated 370 million units worldwide.
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In Wikipedia:
On the band’s early recordings, Berman even tried to protect the Jews’ individuality by listing Malkmus and Nastanovich under aliases, but it backfired when people learned who “Hazel Figurine” and “Bobby N.
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In Wikipedia:
The album is a collection of acoustic reworkings of some of the band’s earlier recordings, a popular trend in the 1990s among established acts due to MTV’s “Unplugged”.
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In Wikipedia:
She performed on some of the band’s recordings and Air Cuba also collaborated with Angie Brown of Bizarre Inc.
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In Wikipedia:
Initially, Penn wanted to set the movie solely to Beatles recordings.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In honor of the anniversary of the release of the Revolve r album on a day when newly discovered early Beatles recordings fetched around $ 23,000, here’s my favorite cut from the album :
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It was an act of remembering a long lost love, all these years later, for which subjecting oneself to the violence latent in the band’s recordings was worth the struggle.
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