The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
Neil Gardner Recommends:
Chrome
Red Exposure
(Beggars Banquet) 1980
“I am anti-fade and I can’t go away” Chrome -’Eyes On Mars’ (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
This month Guy Oddy time-travels back a decade to the age of big beat… (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
This issue Guy Oddy digs out a cacophonic art rock classic…
I first came across the Band of Susans in the late ‘80s supporting indie-dullards Throwing Muses. They were loud, with three guitars laying down a wall of feedback, distortion and hypnotic sounds over a pounding beat, and they were emphatically not singing fey, little songs whose only distinguishing factor was their weediness. (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
This month Guy Oddy recommends the Rasta socialism of…
Max Romeo’s ‘Revelation Time’ is generally acknowledged to be the first concept album to come out of Jamaica. The album is made up of a set of reggae tunes from the roots era, played by members of the Soul Syndicate and Wailers bands, and a vision informed by both Rasta ideology and a socialist viewpoint. This is rebel music straight from the Kingston of the mid ‘70s. (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
This month Guy Oddy harks back to an American classic…
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
This month Blackbelt Jonez digs into the hip hop archives for…
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
This month Guy Oddy goes wild for…
Guitarist Deniz Tek and singer Rob Younger formed Radio Birdman in Sydney in 1974 with the expressed intention of shaking things up. This they did, in spades. In a cultural landscape dominated, in the live arena, by insipid boogie bands in the image of Bad Company and, on the airwaves, by watered-down disco and soft rock, Radio Birdman pretty-much kicked-started the Sydney punk rock movement. Not bad for a band that weren’t really punks at all. (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now.
“Ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. Repo man spends his time getting into ‘em.”
‘Repo Man’ was the first commercially realised film to be directed by Alex Cox and is one of a slew of highly entertaining punk-rock flicks that were released in the mid-eighties. It is also one of those films that have reward numerous viewings to appreciate all the in-jokes and one-liners. However, when it was first let loose on an unsuspecting public, I was a suburban teenager with punk-rock leanings, so that was fine by me and it soon became required viewing, at some point, during most weekends. (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects (usually due for re-release and consequent advertising revenue) but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second-hand shop aficionados may come across and should snap up NOW…
Guy Oddy recommends…
Do you remember the late ‘80s? Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Loadsamoney, Britain ruled the waves again after the Falklands War! Now think a bit harder. Remember an autocratic, right-wing government, unemployment, nuclear paranoia, privatisation mania and inner cities awash with heroin. Out of this amalgam came the On-U Sound System with its sound of resistance, keeping the flag flying between the politically-charged agit-pop of the early eighties indie and post-punk scenes and the anarchist, angry rave sounds from the likes of the Spiral Tribe in the early nineties. (more…)
The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects (usually due for re-release and consequent advertising revenue) but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second-hand shop aficionados may come across and should snap up NOW…
Jim Paranoias Recommends
All great bands are born in pubs. But only truly great bands go the distance; sticking doggedly to that slurred manifesto, that ‘fucking come and have a go’ mentality, and the purity of inspiration that can only be attained in a moment of booze-fuelled clarity. So it must have been with Earl Brutus. (more…)
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