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241) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
James Murphy claimed that The Fall were like The Beatles to him so obviously I warm to the man as he obviously has impeccable taste in...
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Nov 21, 20242 min read
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240) The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
In our last review for The Fall, we had Spencer Birtwistle only lasting one album before being replaced by Dave Milner, well guess what...
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Nov 17, 20242 min read
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239) Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - 101 Damnations
You do not expect a Carter album to start with a hymn but that’s exactly what we have here with The Road to Donestos before we get...
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Nov 14, 20242 min read
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238) The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
I have reviewed one Cure album so far and I awarded The Head on the Door a ten as it has always been my favourite Cure album. Â The...
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Nov 11, 20242 min read
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237) This Mortal Coil - Blood
In about 2000 a new lady joined the office I worked in, she was incredibly quiet and shy, nothing wrong with that, she was pleasant...
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Nov 7, 20242 min read
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236) Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Hard to believe but I am not the youngster I once was, I am fifty-four shortly and the music I listen to is mainly from the past. So far,...
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Nov 4, 20242 min read
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235) Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out
What have Joe Strummer, Pulp, and Natalie Imbruglia got in common? They have all been involved with The Longpigs is the obvious answer...
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Oct 31, 20242 min read
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234) Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?
I have told you that I fancied Tracy Tracy from The Primitives, I was also a big fan of Kim Wilde, Susan Sulley, Belinda Carlisle, Tina...
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Oct 28, 20242 min read
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233) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Music is important to people, a pleasant distraction to others or a load of rubbish if you are my mother whenever she entered my bedroom...
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Oct 24, 20242 min read
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232) Human League - Dare
My partner and I do not agree on music for my love of The Fall, she goes Deacon Blue, for Liz Frazer for me she would go Whitney Houston...
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Oct 21, 20242 min read
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231) Blancmange - Happy Families
Blancmange formed in 1979 with lead singer Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe on keyboards releasing three albums before splitting in 1986,...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
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230) The Fall - The Real New Fall LP
For all his awkwardness Mark likes a bit of tradition as he clearly enjoys being married, the divorce bit can be awkward (I may write...
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Oct 13, 20242 min read
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229) The Men They Couldn't Hang - How Green Is the Valley
The Men They Couldn’t Hang are this year celebrating their fortieth anniversary. They play Glasgow every year-round about Christmas time...
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Oct 9, 20242 min read
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228) Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Five
Okay just to warn people I personally think Goodbye Mr MacKenzie are Scotland’s greatest band so maybe biased, but I am correct. Review...
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Oct 7, 20242 min read
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227) BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth
BC Camplight is Brian James Christinzio an American based over here in the UK ands The Last Rotation of Earth is his sixth solo record,...
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Oct 2, 20242 min read
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226) Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
So, in Review 182 I confessed I struggled with The Beatles as though I like their stuff, I just cannot love them like so many do. The...
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Sep 29, 20242 min read
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225) XTC - Drums and Wires
Everyone talks about the amount of music The Clash recorded over a few years well XTC decided they could match this releasing two albums...
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Sep 25, 20242 min read
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224) Pale Blue Dots - Lots Of Dots
Huw Bunford (Bunf) has his place in music history as he was and remains the lead guitarist in Super Furry Animals and is currently...
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Sep 23, 20243 min read
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223) The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
Ginger Wildheart (or David Walls as his birth certificate will say) was fired from The Quireboys but unlike many who disappear and miss...
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Sep 18, 20242 min read
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222) Talking Heads - Remain In Light
When you read articles about what band, that still has all its original members, people would like to see reform, Talking Heads are...
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Sep 15, 20242 min read
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