As a self appointed cultural director in all of your personal lives, I strongly advise you to get these “Important Albums“, because one day, you will inevitably be on a boat for a ‘three hour tour‘ (yes that’s right, A three hour tour) and you will be shipwrecked with a millionaire and his wife, a [...]

The Original Brother Sister Team! And Much Better Than Donny And Marie! I don’t listen to ‘muzak‘ like stuff. I also don’t intend to include ‘compilation albums‘ in this Important Albums series. However, this album is so much more than either of those things. Raised as CT then CA kids, the both of them demonstrated [...]

Guys See Pistols On Stage And Form Band To Become Punk Legends! These lovable mop-tops from Manchester represented the ‘happy‘ side of punk rock. Buzzcocks (no “The”) took the Sex Pistols‘ ideal of ‘do what you want’ and applied it to their own brand of 3 chord adolescent angst. Love-sick, existentialist teenager songs to a [...]

The Tape-Beatles Sever All Connection To Beat And Melody And Go For A Soundtrack Blitzkrieg; Plagiarism As An Artform! What is Music? The short answer is that it is organised sound. As Zappa once wrote, if John Cage decided to record himself drinking carrot juice and recorded it and gave it a title, that counts [...]

Mind Numbing riffing! Space Dazed Poetry and Swazzle! And Lemmy! A Recipe For The Ultimate Space Travel Right In Your Own Livingroom! One Of John Lydon’s favorites! It MUST be good then, right? If you bothered to check out Metal Box at all, (I know most of you didn’t! Shame on you all!) then you [...]

Ha Ha Ha! Ever Get The Feeling You’ve Been Cheated? Goodnight. With those words, John Lydon brought the curtain down on one of the most important bands in the history of Rock and Roll. The American tour had been a shambles. Having Sid Vicious in the band was a disaster. Malcolm was more interested in [...]

Where were you in 1985? I finished school that summer and things have never been the same since. Things were so much simpler when I had everything taken care of for me. Now that I have to do it myself, life sucks. Soooo… These albums represent a time when everything was still OK. So the [...]

Imagine the most “Phil Spector-ish” songs of “All Things Must Pass”. That’s what this album sounds like. Phil Spector! The songs are built around Mike Scott’s lyrics more than anything else. But the final BIG production and brass decorations create a work of art.  I love this album. It’s another one of those records that’s [...]

Not All Top Forty Is Inherently Evil! This is a muscular album. The sound made by these two young lads just kicks you in the chest and leaves you gasping and when it’s over, you’re reeling like a man who’s been mugged in a meadow, but you’re thankful that they assaulted you in such a [...]

Bauhaus Lose Their Lead Singer And Create The ’80′s True Psychedelic Masterpiece! I think that this is a group that sometimes doesn’t get remembered in their rightful spot as one of the most important groups of the ’80s along with The Cure, The Cult, The Smiths and others. Having started out as a so-called Goth [...]