Posts tagged rock rewind

After an interesting debut and a flop follow-up, Peter Gabriel had to pull out all of the stops for his third album. Too many frontmen …

Elton John’s eponymous second effort is pretty much where things started taking off for him. Originally intended as effectively a shop window to display the …

My Mum’s copy of The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table was the first Rick Wakeman album I heard when I was …

Apparently every home should have at least two Van Morrison albums. The spot-on The Best of Van Morrison is one and if the cool-police are …

It’s a long way from the dive bars of Texas to the global stadium circuit, yet somehow ZZ Top managed to navigate their way.

The Who are an odd one for me. A few of their peers managed the same transition from being a “singles” group to an “albums” group, …

Purchased, simply because I was flicking through the racks at Record Collector, took one look at the cover and declared that, regardless of the music …

With a fuzz bass sound to die for high on their list of priorities, and critical adulation low, Grand Funk (Railroad) blazed a trail across America from …

Rhino have always had a reputation for putting together some damn fine compilations which work as ideal introductions to the bands in question. The Best of …

Has there ever been another album quite as unrelentingly miserable as The Wall? It first entered my life back in 1998, when I was suffering …