Not Forgotten
Not Forgotten: Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
For some, the convoluted release of Dark Night of the Soul (the record label shenanigans, the fact that Danger Mouse, Mark Linkous and David Lynch released a lavish booklet with a blank CDR on which you could burn copy from files that would not be nefariously downloaded (wink, wink)) almost eclipses the fact that this …
Not Forgotten: Iron Maiden – Live After Death
How? How can it be possible for you to be nostalgic for something that you didn’t personally encounter in your own youth? How come Live After Death is the fourth Iron Maiden release I had bought since the beginning of 2018, after decades of me being fairly agnostic towards them and the New Wave of …
Not Forgotten: Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run
A superior musician and with a deeper understanding of melody than his former writing partner, it seems that no one will ever forgive Paul McCartney for having the nerve to actually form another band after he had left The Beatles. Sure, there were a couple of solo albums in the interim, but in Wings McCartney …
Not Forgotten: The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
As unfeasible as it seems, there was once a time when the singles chart was of equal importance to the album chart. Actually, no, it was more important. In the first decade of rock’n’roll, the single was king. Admittedly in the 60s The Beatles were masters of the pop single, but the fight for the …
Not Forgotten: Kate Bush – Lionheart
Kate Bush had exploded on the British music scene early in 1978 and had made an immeadiate impact, sweeping all before her and instantly becoming the biggest artist in the UK. Or at least that’s what her record company wanted you to believe. In reality Miss Bush had been groomed for fame for at least …
Not Forgotten: R.E.M. – Green
These days the signing of a much respected alternative / indie band to a major label is met with trepidation from the band’s established fans. Some will accuse the band of ‘selling out’, others will simply fear that they will receive wider exposure and thus no longer feel as exclusive and special to them. To …
Not Forgotten: The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord
The Moody Blues were in an interesting place when their third album, In Search of the Lost Chord, was released in August 1968. With their roots in the mid-60s Brum-Beat movement, their second single, a cover of “Go Now” hit the top of the singles chart, prompting the release of a tie in album. Follow …
Not Forgotten: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next
After years of trying to find the right musical vehicle to transport him on to the charts, by 1973 Alex Harvey had apparently found the backing band he had been searching his entire adult life for. Teaming up with rockers Tear Gas to form the appropriately named Sensational Alex Harvey Band, their debut album Framed …
Not Forgotten: Electric Light Orchestra – On The Third Day
Prior to On the Third Day, The Electric Light Orchestra looked to be in jeopardy. With co-leader Roy Wood having departed part-way through sessions for the band’s second album, and both of their albums to date being weighed down by some of the stodgiest of stodgy prog rock, things were not exactly looking promising. There …
Reissue: Semisonic – Feeling Strangely Fine
Whatever happened to Semisonic? One minute some were considering them to be the next big thing in American rock music, and the next, well they just disappeared. So what happened? In the mid 90s, when there was a surplus of post-grunge cash sloshing around record companies, Minneapolis power pop act Semisonic somehow found themselves signed …