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Albums in 200 Words

A personal view on any album from my own collection or your recommendations
No Review is Wrong just a Healthy Difference of Opinion
345) The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Radiohead did nine albums in twenty-three years and its nine years since we last heard from them with A Moon Shaped Pool however, they have recently announced concerts so let’s hope for a new record one day.  Each member has done individual projects but as I said back in review eleven over three years ago a band called The Smile produced the single of the year for me with You Will Never Work in Television Again.  Unless you have been living in a cave you will know that The
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344) Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point
We are back in the early 80s where either you buy the album, or your mate buys it and then we copy it for each other. Anyway, my mate copied me The Hurting by Tears for Fears, the singles were excellent as we all know and overall a pretty good record. Then they went mega mainly on the back of Everybody Wants to Rule the World, I hated that song, I can’t remember if I just got sick of it as it was everywhere or if I just didn’t like it from the get go, still don’t. Then they d
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343) Lotus Eaters - No Sense of Sin
I know The Lotus Eaters, anyone with a passing interest in music of a certain age knows their hit The First Picture Of You which peaked at number fifteen back in 1983. Reading up on them for this review they formed in 1982 and were in the top twenty before they had even played a concert. They must have thought this pop star business was a doddle. Sadly, they never troubled the top forty ever again and this, their debut album, spent one week in the UK charts making number nine
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