I am the musical expert in the family, I am the one who knows all the trivial nonsense and all the records. Now to be clear this is...

Ireland has produced great bands, have I ever mentioned That Petrol Emotion?(never going to stop praising them, sorry). The Fat Lady...

Suede are finished aren’t they I remember saying? Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler wrote all the songs and Butler has left the band...

It’s showing off time as I knew three things about Yello. They did something with Shirley Bassey (but I couldn’t remember what), they...

The album opens with the excellent track Over!Over! with a mad laugh from Mark and a lyric “I think it’s over now; I think its ending.” ...

Review seventy-nine was Mazzy Star with the excellent So Tonight That I Might See ( https://www.albumsin200words.co.uk/post/79-mazzy-star...

No sod off, just do one, what the hell was going on?   BAD had delivered with their first two records and their second had seen a certain...

Frank Turner you would have to say fair play to him as over a seventeen-year solo career he has released ten solo albums slowly building...

We are back in 2001, and I had recently hit the huge old age of thirty, at nearly fifty-four I cannot believe how young people in my...

We have already reviewed a Ruts album with review 163 of  Animal Now but that is a much different beast as the band were slowly finding...

I may have mentioned that I live in Glasgow. Most people from this city are proud to be from it. In recent years, the centre has taken a...

Review 114 already established I had never heard of the Psychedelic Furs until Pretty in Pink appeared in the John Hughes film of the...

Dexys could do no wrong, first album go for a look with donkey jackets and storm to number one with Geno then let’s go with dungarees and...

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...

In our last review for The Fall, we had Spencer Birtwistle only lasting one album before being replaced by Dave Milner, well guess what...

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...

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.   The...

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...

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,...

What have Joe Strummer, Pulp, and Natalie Imbruglia got in common? They have all been involved with The Longpigs is the obvious answer...