The best debut album by a British band ever? Let's go again. The best debut album by a British band ever. "Please Please Me"? 14 tracks and 6 of them were other people's songs. Next. "The Rolling Stones"? 12 songs and 11 of them were other people's songs. Next. "The Kinks"? 14 songs and 8 [...]
The second studio album from The Smiths is remembered, certainly by those outside the fevered inner-circle of Moz Apostles, for the titular track...a song that saw thousands of pale, bequiffed, listless young boys and girls take to the moral high ground of vegetarianism and embark on a life of hectoring, moralising and judging those who [...]
Following on from our conversation about "Modern Life is Rubbish", Nick Amies and I continue to explore the albums and bands who defined the Britpop era with a look at the debut album from Suede. There can be little doubt that Suede were the band who kicked over the statues of grunge and cleared the [...]
The fourth disc in this look back at the alternative scene of the UK in the nineties is the most alternative of all. The big names of the Britpop years are absent and many of the bands here will be, relatively unknown, to the casual listener who has purchased this compilation because of the presence [...]
It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining. Shirt sleeves. T-shirts. Summer dresses. For the more daring boys...shorts. Well, to me that was daring. I wouldn't dare. This is the summer of 1997 and this is the V festival in Leeds. Four weeks earlier I had turned twenty-four, I had finished with university and [...]
I did things the wrong way round. Or the right way round. Or round and round. In 1989 I had no idea who Joy Division were. I knew who New Order were. I had heard that "Blue Monday" song. Then, one day after school, I found myself in Sleeves looking at the cassettes...because they were [...]
"Another hit and nothing, short of driving a rusty meat-hook through Dave Gahan's malformed cranium, will prevent it." (Geoff Barton, Sounds, 24/9/83) By the time Depeche Mode had reached single number eight and album number three that they really hated them. "Love in Itself" is an inoffensive little pop song. It hinted, but only hinted, [...]
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