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209) Sextile - Push
I ran a poll on X/Facebook called #AlbumsDecade where people voted for their favourite record for each year, many regulars took part, and...
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Jul 292 min
308) Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes have taken a bit of a kicking recently re Denise Johnson and Duffy and is a grim situation all round. I...
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Jul 242 min
207) Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain
As we have established in my teens, I knew everything about music. Yes, everything and to be clear I thought Grant Lee Buffalo and...
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Jul 222 min
206) Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent
When I went to college at sixteen, I met the first openly gay person I had ever met, like me he was only sixteen. Â I got on with him...
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Jul 182 min
205) The Church - Starfish
People at work tell me that most of the bands I am into they have never heard of, and I think but how can you have not heard of them....
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Jul 152 min
204) The Ramones
I went on holiday in April and was with my much better half in a very trendy designer clothes shop purchasing t shirts so my stunning...
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Jul 112 min
203) The The - Dusk
God’s sake he had kept us waiting four years for this one he surely wouldn’t go that long again, would he? The same line up from Mind...
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Jul 82 min
202) Morrissey - Your Arsenal
It’s no secret that Morrissey had struggled to fit in throughout his life until a certain Johnny Marr knocked on his door. The Smiths...
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Jul 32 min
201) Super Furry Animals - Radiator
We have rightly praised Super Furry Animals way back in October 2023 with their excellent debut Fuzzy Logic Released barely fifteen...
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Jun 302 min
200) The Fall - The Marshall Suite
So, in this long going soap opera after the last episode called Levitate the lead man Mark E Smith is in a bit of trouble with the drink...
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Jun 272 min
199) Specials - More Specials
We have already celebrated the wonderful Terry Hall when we reviewed The Colourfield album Virgins and Philistines (Review 86 if anyone...
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Jun 242 min
198) B-52s - Cosmic Thing
Dave Grohl left the drumkit for the guitar after a tragedy in his band. He was not the first musician to do this. Rock Lobster and Planet...
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Jun 202 min
197) Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
I am aware of Leonard Cohen but all I know is he went into a monastery and that he wrote Hallelujah oh and sadly he is no longer with us....
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Jun 162 min
196) Electronic
We usually despair of supergroups. The Smile have bucked the trend and years earlier Electronic certainly tried. Johnny Marr had moved...
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Jun 132 min
195) Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
Maximo Park are one of those bands that seem to have always been around but never really broken through. Usual read on the internet...
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Jun 92 min
194) The Clash - Cut the Crap
Review fifty-five was Combat Rock where The Clash conquered America. As they toured supporting The Who Topper Headon had already been...
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Jun 52 min
193) The Prisoners - The Last Fourfathers
Next review and it’s The Prisoners. Who are The Prisoners? Usual read of the internet and there we go James Taylor from The James Taylor...
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Jun 22 min
192) Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
I like(d) weird stuff and as we know was quite quick to slate anything because I was an arrogant arse. However, the odd pop song would...
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May 301 min
191) Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon
When I thought I would start to write these amateur thirty second reads I asked for requests as I couldn’t subject people to my music, my...
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May 272 min
190) The Fall - Levitate
Remember folks times these were tough for The Fall after Light User Syndrome, we had lost members and Mark was losing the plot, well now...
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