Released: 2001 You can almost guarantee that when the phrase “criminally underrated” is applied the subject mostly falls into one…
January 2023’s New Music Playlist
Updated 20.01.23 Almost too many to mention, but additions from Shame, Daughter, Everything But The Girl, Jane Weaver, Temples, The…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #1 Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Released: 1977 If one narrative played strongest in the 1970’s, it was sex. Gone were the hippie conjunctions of bad…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #2 Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
Released: 1977 Almost anyone who embraces the idea of destiny is a fool or a liar, or both. Usually pre-ordainment…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #3 The Clash – London Calling
Released: 1979 The release of The Clash’s third studio London Calling was accompanied by a simple tagline, lauding them as…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #4 Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
Released: 1978 Speaking to Ian Birch of the Melody Maker in 1978, Dire Straits front man Mark Knopfler was unrepentant…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #5 Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up
Released: 1971 As it staggered into the 1970’s amongst the anger and disillusionment felt by urban communities across America there…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #6 The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Released: 1978 Just imagine for a minute that every country gets to have one entry into a winner-takes-all final Eurovision.…
Let’s Go Round Again – 2022’s Best Reissues
Albums are served back up to a weary public these days on the flimsiest of premises, but here’s some which…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #7 Blondie Hanging on the Telephone/Heart of Glass
Released: 1978 & 1979 Sometimes impossible decisions can only be resolved by compromise. Attempting to capture the impact of Blondie’s…
The Voice Of Unreason 