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72. PREFAB SPROUT – “A Prisoner Of The Past”
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— 15 Sep 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The beat is preposterous, sheer melodrama, Spector meets Lloyd Webber uptown. The song tops it. “Prisoner Of The Past” is mock-epic of Broadway proportions, dwarfing everything on its puny pare[…]

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