Exclamation Mark - Pesky Gee

Advantages: great song
Disadvantages: a bit cheeky

...All Hooked Up - All Saints-CD Single released 15/01/01 All Hooked Up is the All Saints' follow up to their massive number one, Black Coffee. Taken from the Saints and Sinners album this latest single certainly lives up to their previous releases and follows on from the laid back groove of Black Coffee but manages to sound different enough to make its own mark. All Hooked Up is written by K-Gee Gordon and Shaznay Lewis, who also provides the vocal arrangement as well as the lead vocal, and sounds like a sure fire fan pleaser as well as a good bet for the top ten.... Read review

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Advantages: Original, quirky and happy!
Disadvantages: Not for those with a fear of trumpets

...that I strongly recommend you take a look at. This band has an exclamation mark in the title of their name and by God they deserve it. Let me present to you The Go! Team, the most exciting, entertaining and ecstatic band of 2005.... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing material
Disadvantages: Couldn't be sustained

...Ultravox’s self-confessed influences - Bowie, Warhol, the Velvet Underground and Roxy Music - led to them being tagged art school punk, but also helped them to attract a cult following and secure a contract with Island Records. Their debut album, released in 1977, was called simply Ultravox! (at this time the exclamation mark was an integral part of the band’s name ans was only dropped when the third album was released) and was a stunning melting pot of pretension, passion and progression while all around them groups like the Clash and the Pistols were seething with pent up, primal rage. The music itself was a wild, jarring hybrid of Bowie type pop and hard edged Velvets influenced rock experimentation that clearly showed the debt they owed to Roxy. There was a haunting, almost ethereal quality about songs such as Dangerous Rhythm... Read review

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