Be Careful How You Use It: The Story Of Hai Karate
The ad campaigns for cologne Hai Karate promised that it would drive women mad with desire, forcing users to become experts in self-defence.
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Shelfie Spectacular: Digging Into The Desperate Living Archives
Our YouTube channel posts featuring a selection of rare books, records and movies from the Desperate Living archives.
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Classic Albums Revisited: The Ghost Wolves – Man, Woman, Beast
The Ghost Wolves create a garage-punk flavoured, fuzz-drenched and sleazy noise on their 2015 LP that is hard to resist.
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Porque Te Vas – The Finest Moment Of 1970s Europop
The bouncy Spanish pop song by Jeanette that featured in the bleak film Cría Cuervos and became an unlikely international hit.
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Classic Albums Revisited: Say Lou Lou – Lucid Dreaming
The debut LP from the Swedish/Australian duo is a perfect combination of uplifting disco and melancholic etherealism, taking you on an emotional journey.
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Classic Albums Revisited: The Madeline Rust – Truth or Consequences
The Madeline Rust provide a nightmare soundtrack to America’s serial killer badlands in this brooding slice of true crime heavy rock.
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Bent Bolt, Pioneering Musical Mechanical Man
This robotic novelty track from the 1960s is a curious novelty that seems to predict the mechanical sounds of Krautrock. No, seriously!
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Bettie Page, Cover Girl
The anonymous magazine, book and LP appearances of the woman who would later become a pin-up legend.
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Are You One Of The Frightened?
A collection of short, sharp shockers from Boris Karloff.
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Art Barnes Returns To Tell Us Sh!t Happens
One half of the eccentric geniuses behind Fish Heads returns with a new album.
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Admittedly, every day is Halloween around Reprobate Towers – but for those you looking for seasonal reading, photo galleries, music and movies, don’t worry – we have you covered.
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Pomp And Circumstance In Rick Wakeman – The Prog Years
A suitably excessive collection of recordings from the very height of progressive rock’s ambition and pomposity.
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