I bought Back in the DHSS in 1985, when it came out, because everyone said I should… I listened to it a bit, then filed it away and then spent a lot of the subsequent years trying to pretend I’d never heard it. I don’t get why I was supposed to like it and I [...]
So John and I were Motorhead fans and Ju and Paul were Status Quo fans. They’d come and see Motorhead and we’d go see Quo… and Quo played a lot and so we saw them a lot… all over the country we traipsed seeing them… and you know what, I probably enjoyed them. But then [...]
Back in the early 80s I started hanging with Ian because he was a friend of a friend. I didn’t really like him, he was a bit of a pillock (and an estate agent) but I have to acknowledge a debt to him. Ian was a blues afficianado, and I’m faily certain that some of [...]
Whenever I listen to metal these days it’s mostly Motorhead or Sabbath which disguises the fact that my real metal period was the 1979 to 1981 golden period of the NWOBHM. Last September I did a punk special on this blog where I spent a day playing classic punk albums and passing opinion on them. [...]
I have a surprising number of Mike Oldfield albums including Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Crises. I'm fairly certain that I have never listened to any of them – not even slightly. I suspect none of them ever reached my turntable. I own them for various reasons but the main one is that when you [...]
I love Aimee Mann, I don't listen to her too much, I find a little goes a long way but I love her all the same. I love her rich voice, and that she's funny and clever and potty-mouthed – but I've never listened to anything this early in her career… partly because I just [...]
I was never a fan of Nirvana back then, I liked them enough to have bought their albums but not so much to bother going to see them live. I remember driving past the Astoria, when they were playing there with Mudhoney, on our way to some north London pub back room to see some [...]
I've seen Robyn Hitchcock quite a few times over the years – never as a headliner (last time with The Decemberists a couple of years back); I've listened to albums (and Soft Boys albums); I've listened to friends express their appreciation… but for all that I find it really hard to like him, and I'm [...]
Chelsea Nightclub by The MembersQuick last one before home time. Maybe not really a classic like the rest but a sweet little punky pop gem – and Sound of the Suburbs is a nearly perfect Pleasant Valley Sunday update! And…one of my fave ever TOTP performances by Nicky Tesco… Posted via email from Supplemental
Germ Free Adolescents by X-Ray SpexI had a couple of X-Ray Spex singles but this is the first time, as far as I can remember, that I've listened to an album. And another great punk album it is – I sort of expected the albums by all of these bands to be weak with filler [...]