Starting with Gil Scott-Heron’s B-Movie, (a 12 minute portion of classic 70′s soul), and moving into TLC’s ‘Creep’, you know this album is a little different from most. Rather than a album of like-minded tunes, Underworld’s Back to Mine is a journey, and being a relative virgin to Underworld’s music, it is interesting to see [...]

I really can’t understand why it has taken me so long to listen to this album. In fact, I only spotted it on the way out of the library by chance (after looking for it for abour 3 weeks, it turns out it sits on the ‘Librarians Choice’ shelf!). I really love Sebadoh’s ‘Harmacy’, and [...]

This album, released in 1995 is hailed by many as one of the “best industrial albums of all time”. At first listen, it sounds like it could have been made by one of KMFDM’s contemporaries, most likely being Ministry, or Nine Inch Nails. But in comparision to where these two bands were in their careers [...]

The Pixies, Where Is My Mind? I had to listen to this this evening after I had the misfortune of listening to the first verse of a James Blunt live version. If I ever meet that guy, I think I might give him a clip round the head for butchering one of my favourite Pixies [...]

I knew little if anything about ‘MMJ’ – but I have noticed that ‘Z’ has been getting the mad ups from music media of late, and that was enough for me to put it on reserve at my local library. I had forgotten about it a little too – I was about 80th on the [...]

Seeing Bowie live was my of the highlights of 2004. Watching him perform ‘Under Pressure’ was unbelievable! Its hard to explain – just thinking about it gives me the goosebumps – but I remember taking a moment to look back at the crowd behind me – and even in the rain and wind (it was [...]

I remember the first time I heard ‘Pictures Of You’ by The Cure, it was off ‘Mixed Up’ and when I heard the original I thought it sounded weird. The remixes on ‘Mixed Up’ to me sound pretty tastefully done, but then I am not a Cure fanatic, so those people who actually remember when [...]

Sometimes I shock myself with how much I have come to love reggae music. Like everyone under the age of 40, I own Bob Marley’s Legend, and for 25 of my 30 years I figured that was where reggae began and ended. Then I started listening to Radio Active and realised that that hadn’t even [...]