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Single cover for PJ Harvey’s Sheela-Na-GIg (1992)
Song of the Day: Today’s song, in celebration of women, is from the British singer-songwriter from her debut album Dry – a robust defence of and pride in the female body in response to an insulting lover
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Cesária Evora
Song of the Day: Moving now to and artist from Cape Verde and one of the most beautiful songs, from the singer's her 1992 album Miss Perfumado
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Cover of the 12inch version of Juice by Eric B. and Rakim
Song of the Day: After Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's The Message, another hip-hop classic, varying the topic around the edges of violence, but this track tells the tale of a young man who falls off it
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Racing Yello? Dieter Meier and Boris Blank
Song of the Day: After the perfect pace and beautiful simplicity of Kraftwerk's Autobahn, here's a contrast race forward from handcraft in Germany to flashy millionaire Switzerland, snorting that white line of road into an 80s concoction of speed-and-coke-crazy synth sampling
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The Goats … old-school political Philly hip hop
Song of the Day: Continuing our loose, four-legged bearded animal theme, a change of pace going back to 1992, and one of the forgotten and much under-rated hip hop bands of the period, a Philadelphia trio
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The Pharcyde. 1992-95 was a golden age for hip hop.
Song of the Day: Two songs from the first half of the 1990s, for many still the golden age of hip hop, exemplified by the innovative south central Los Angeles rappers who also worked with J Dilla
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