Released : 1978 A recipe for punk: take three dollops of phlegm, add some youth, stir in a bit of … More
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100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #96 New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
Released : 1973 Crawling out of Lower Manhattan’s East Side when the word bohemian didn’t even begin to cover it’s … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #97 The Temptations – Ball of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)
Released: 1970 “Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration” went one of the lines in Motown supergroup The Temptations first single of the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #98 Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag
Released: 1979 Cabaret Voltaire were from Sheffield, a place which had been a relative musical backwater (unless you count Joe … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #99 Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking
Released : 1977 Britain’s love of reggae – a sound first imported by Jamaican immigrants in the fifties and sixties … More
The Jazz Butcher – Dr. Cholmondley Repents review
Neil Taylor’s book ‘C-86 And All That – The Creation of Indie In Difficult Times’ may lack the expansive prose … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #100 The Ruts – Babylon’s Burning
Released: 1979 John Lydon’s infamous leaving jab on a San Franciso stage was unequivocally about the Sex Pistols, but punk’s … More
Introducing January 2022’s New Music Playlist
Updated 22.01.22 The final dollop of goodness for the month comes in the shape of additional fresh tunes from Mitski, … More
2021’s Best Albums – Wrapped Up
20. The Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark Read about it here. 19. The Bronx – VI Read about … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #1 Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
Released : 1994 It was always hard to listen without imagining yourself in some kind of Faustian pact. Mazzy Star … More
The Voice Of Unreason 