When this question comes up, there are two types of people who answer it: people who don’t like Heavy Metal and people who like Heavy Metal.

For the former, the answers are divergent, with the acts mentioned […]

Boxed logo as well. Mike’s sitting on a gold mine here.

This is a good point. Mike may not have an original pressing here. His bin could be a reissue from 2010 and as such, worth much less. Perhaps its Japanese though. Does your bin have an OBI strip Mike?

2020 marks 30 years since the last album by The Sisters of Mercy. They’ve always been an active band in this time, playing concerts around Europe, but have refused to release anything (long story, partially […]

One of the The Smiths singles had “Are You Loathsome Tonight?” on the run-off groove.

In the days when they were hopeless and poor, I just liked them more.

The thing is, I think they genuinely don’t care. Brit Awards? Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? I don’t think they give a monkey’s. Iron Maiden can fill the sports stadium of pretty much any major city you can mention. […]

I think the Guardian opinion pieces are given titles in broadly the same way as the Daily Mail ones are. That is, to ensure that they will be shared broadly on Facebook and Twitter by people of the opposite […]

Great idea for a post. Thanks for sharing and look forward to reading what others look at. For myself:

News from me – This is an old fashioned blog by writer Mark Evanier who posts about stuff that I’m i […]

Yeah but most bands changed a lot in the 60s. The Beach Boys and The Kinks sounded pretty different at the end of the decade as well. This also happened in the 70s (compare Atom Heart Mother with The Wall, for […]

Having read Clive James chapter on Duke Ellington in Cultural Amnesia it’s clear that there’s at least one Aussie who would put Duke above John Coltrane. Actually, Clive spends more time talking about Coltrane […]

Twenty five. My God.

Nice review, Tigger and it’s good to see someone standing up for meat and potatoes. I’m all for a bit of meat and potatoes, whether it’s Slade, Status Quo or Kiss. Yes, that Kiss. And Roadhouse Blues is so […]

Great idea for a post. The first song I heard by Steve Winwood was Higher Love, in 1986. Apparently he had done some decent stuff in the past.

Nice review! I’m not sure Fish would agree with you about being quintessentially English though.

I never saw him in unform.

I love Prince, but I can understand why people don’t like him. I think in some ways he is similar to Frank Zappa, in that both created their own musical worlds, and how much you enjoy visiting these worlds governs […]

Bloody Hell, he is good, isn’t he?

A lot of the bands mentioned here are older bands who are still producing good records, and that’s all fine and dandy and adds to the gaiety of life.

Sparks, mentioned in the OP are an older band (first album […]

As soon as I saw the thread title, I thought of Be Bop Deluxe. For me they are the perfect example of a band that were successful in one time period, but for some reason have not been discovered or adopted by […]

I’m ok with him being smutty, but when we’re talking early 80s, do we mean good smutty, like Joe’s Garage, or not good smutty, like The Man From Utopia?