Sunday, August 24, 2014

Album Reviews 1-30


This blog started as an album review blog and when I began I rushed through them full pelt for the first few months, with long, heavily researched and sometimes quite emotional reviews. After a few months this focus shifted. I was finding the reviews too lengthy to write and bit by bit they stopped appearing at all. I'd like to start writing them again more regularly, though I suspect they'll generally be a bit shorter and sweeter from now on. Here's the first thirty.

  1. R.E.M.- Murmur
  2. Associates - Sulk
  3. Velvet Underground - Loaded
  4. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
  5. De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
  6. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
  7. The Strokes - Is This It?
  8. Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream
  9. Fairport Convention - Lief & Liege
  10. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
  11. The Smiths- Meat Is Murder
  12. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
  13. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
  14. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
  15. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
  16. Misty In Roots - Live At The Counter Eurovision
  17. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
  18. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream '81. '82, '83, '84
  19. Love - Forever Changes
  20. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (not completed)
  21. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
  22. The Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness
  23. Low - I Could Live In Hope
  24. Nico - Chelsea Girls
  25. Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
  26. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
  27. Spirit - The 7 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
  28.  Propaganda - A Secret Wish
  29. The Zombies - Oddessey & Oracle
  30. King Creosote - From Scotland With Love
I'll get round to finishing Pere Ubu eventually. I think The Triffids, Bunnymen, Modern Lovers, Dexys and Velvet Underground are the best. Pixies I was slightly unfair to as it brought back bad memories. It's a great record.

9 English bands
12 American bands
4 Scottish bands
1 German band
1 Australian band
1 solo American artist
1 solo Irish artist
1 solo German artist

6 from the 60s
7 from the 70s
13 from the 80s
2 from the 90s
1 from the 00s
1 from the 10s

I guess it's clear which decade I grew up in.

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