A Buyers Guide to 80s Live Albums
Although the heyday of the live rock album was the late 60s to the late 70s, there have been many live albums released since then that have captured the public’s…
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Not Forgotten: U2 – Zooropa
Zooropa is one of the few U2 studio albums that I can listen to all the way through without it making me want to throw my stereo out of the…
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Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – A Passion Play
Jethro Tull had made their point with Thick as a Brick. Progressive rock simply didn’t have to be overblown and pompous, it could be cheeky, subversive, and (dare I say…
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A Buyers Guide to Electric Light Orchestra
The Move were one of those psyche-pop acts of the late 60s that were able to release great singles, but albums success always seemed to elude them. Originally formed in…
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Not Forgotten: Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
There’s a time in all of our lives when we put aside our romantic dreams of an ideal life aside, and simply accept life for being the often thankless struggle…
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Not Forgotten: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War of the Worlds
Imagine for a moment the pitch for this album to Columbia Records in the mid 70s. A guy best known for advertising jingles and writing light-weight pop-rock hits turns up…
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Not Forgotten: Smashing Pumpkins – Adore
Smashing Pumpkins were undoubtedly one of the key rock acts of the 1990s. Lumped in with the grunge movement, they stood apart from the Seattle trio of big hitters, and…
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Album Review: Sharone & The Wind – Enchiridion of Nightmares
Despite this being the second album from Sharone & The Wind, it feels like a debut. An introduction to something new, with a sense of purpose and an air of…
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Classic Album: Small Faces – Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake
By and large, there are some albums that transcend the era of popular music they were recorded in, and then there are some that remain forever tied to the culture…
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Classic Album: Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
I used to listen to Tubular Bells endlessly when I was about sixteen. Back then it seemed like some the most exciting music ever made, two massive suites of throbbing…
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