100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #72 Tom Tom Club – Genius of Love

Released : 1981 Sometimes great outcomes happen by accident: Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz had booked dub reggae luminary Lee … More

Talk Show – These People EP review

The luxury of hindsight is one that many people are bathing in now: Talk Show’s Harrison Swann wrote most of … More

The Bluetones – Expecting To Fly review

Released 12th February 1996. Review originally published 30th December 2012. Just as with punk, looking back at Britpop with years … More

A Flock of Seagulls – A Flock of Seagulls review

Originally released in 1982. Review first published November 11th, 2008. Now if you wanted to get to the real start … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #73 Motorhead – Ace of Spades

Released : 1980 Motorhead were famously the metal band which punks could like and vice versa, occupying a unique spot … More

Kaiser Chiefs – Education, Education, Education & War review

Released: 2014. Review originally published March 31st, 2014 Not many groups made it out of the mid noughties indie resurrection … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #74 Boogie Down Productions – The Bridge Is Over

Released:1987 The eighties was the decade in which hip-hop went global but stayed local; whilst it’s stars were always talking … More

Little Dragon – New Me, Same Us review

For a decade and a half Gothenburg’s Little Dragon have been both a production house –  with their collaborative credits … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #75 Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown

Released : 1983 Whilst some of the lines of early electronic music were clean, symmetrical and unquestionably pop, underneath the … More

Code Orange – Underneath review

If you were born before say, 1990, and want to understand what things like social media are doing to people … More