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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 11/07/2026 - Track 2 My next selection from The Hit Men compilation is the 1978 cover of the Dionne Warick classic, Walk On By. The initial release was as a free EP to accompany the first batch of The Stranglers third album, Black & White but the song soon gained its own traction and was subsequently released as a single. The song was rearranged by the band and given a long keyboard and guitar section the middle as a reference to The Doors song Light My Fire. To this day the song remains a Stranglers classic and the originals writters, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, have stated they loved this punk/new wave interpretation of the song. Album Of The Week - 11/07/2026 The Hit Men – The Stranglers   This week we feature the nineth of my Stranglers albums to be selected with the 1997 compilation release, The Hit Men, The Complete Singles 1977 to 1991. Over their long and varied recording career there has been a slew of Stranglers co...
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   Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th  album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...
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