#925 Morrissey – Suedehead: The Best of Morrissey

Having fallen out of favour in recent years, due to being a bit of an arsewipe as an actual human, it may be easy to forget just what an excellent songsmith and lyricist Morrissey was in his heyday. The heyday undoubtedly being his time in The Smiths, but his earlier solo fare is pretty damn …

#976 Nirvana – Nevermind

I’ve been rocking out to this so much over the last few days that I forgot to actually write something. Like many records over the years that have so perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the time, this album for me is the early Nineties personified. Whilst continuing with the grunge-punk aesthetic of their debut, it …

#77 Bark Psychosis – Independency

I love the serendipity of true random choice, it’s what’s made writing this blog over the last nearly 3 years now so enjoyable. If I had just chosen directly myself what to listen to and review then I would have gone for the usual suspects, and missed a lot of great music that I loved …

#1253 Shakespears Sister – Hormonally Yours

This album reminds me of my first girlfriend, my first proper relationship in fact. There’s such a warm rush of nostalgia on hearing it, I could be time-travelling back to the early 90s. Ah, that simple time, before public internet, when mobile phones were the size of a three-door hatchback, and when watching Neighbours in …

#778 Ladyhawke – Anxiety

Well, there you go, I haven’t listened to any Ladyhawke for a long time - not since I was reunited with my full record collection on returning to the UK in March 2017 – and as if to compensate for this omission the randometer has picked out two in quick succession. This is her second …

#904 Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Oh Alanis, you were the mainstream popular culture feminist we didn’t know we STILL needed back in 1995. Back when “things are going to get better”, and they surely did. For a bit. Back when we thought we’d sorted basic human rights and equality of the sexes. (Oh how wrong we were.) What you did …