Inflammable Material by Stiff Little Fingers Never got into SLF at the time – not too sure why. I remember seeing them at the Guildford Civic Hall but reckon that was early 80s rather than later 70s so I can't blame that rather disappointing gig for my negligence. And negligent it surely was because this [...]
Just dug this one out
The Crack – The RutsMy mate Paul was a huge fan of The Ruts and for a while this and Grin and Bear It were played extensively. I'd sort of forgotten about it over the years but it really is another rather splendid punk album. It finishes with an electrifying live track Human Punk. Paul [...]
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex PistolsI sort of wanted to not like this, I wanted to say how much better The Damned were and that they never really got the love/respect that the Pistols did. I loved it for a while and my copy is one of the more worn/battered LPs in my [...]
This morning I decided to spend as much of the day as possible listening to classic punk albums. Punk for me was a slightly peripheral thing. I was a headbanger but very much from the punk side of metal so The Clash, The Pistols and most crucially The Damned were an important part of the [...]
OK, the full shame of my ownership of Kiss Alive II is documented in this previous post about Neil Young's Live Rust but the long and the short of it is that I swapped a great live album for this bollocks. At the height of my metal period the music I liked was very much [...]
There was a short period in time when I thought Poi Dog Pondering were great. I remember playing Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea a lot… and awful lot. I bought the follow up album (Volo Volo) and am not sure I've ever even listened to it once. The time came and [...]
Of all the albums I owned in the days before Motorhead, Out of the Blue was certainly the one that had the longest lasting affect on me. If you asked me to name any albums from before my heavy metal Damascus (In late 1979) I’m sure I could name very few. And I suspect that [...]
I’m not entirely sure how I became a fan of XTC but for a very short period of time in the early 80s I was. At the time I was listening to, almost exclusively, heavy metal. The two exceptions (that spring to mind) were XTC and Kate Bush. I’ve regularly listened to Kate over the [...]
Apr 092009
I arrived at Hawkwind, obviously, by working back from my love for Motorhead. I never loved Hawkwind in the same way, maybe it was the (very misplaced) hippies mess they got tangled up in, or maybe it was becuase the new albums they were releasing around then, Sonic Attack, Church of Hawkwind, Choose Your Masques, [...]
Mar 282009
OK – I haven’t really dug anything out…but a sudden wave of uncontrollable nostalgia inspired me to post this to the Galaxie 500 Mailing List – which got (mostly) the whistling silence it’s astonishing off-topic-ness deserved. I thought it really ought to live here where it can offend no one… Back in the early 80s [...]
