Top 15 on the 15th is a challenge that many fellow music bloggers partake in and that I was invited in by KeepsMeAlive. According to him, the challenge consists of each individual blogger posting his own Top 15 Albums of All-Time without… Read More ›
The Kinks
Album Review: The Kinks – Preservation Act 1 (1973)
“It has honour, it has character and it’s British!” Rating: 4/10 To see Ray Davies getting interested in theatre and trying to incorporate it into his music, is not an exactly out-of-the-blue move like it may seem. Just think about… Read More ›
3 Reasons Why You Should Listen To The Kinks
The guru of internet music reviewing, George Starostin, once said that most people fall into two categories when it comes to The Kinks: those who have never heard of them, and those who consider the band to be among the… Read More ›
Top 5 Albums Released In 1971
#5. The Who – Who’s Next I’ve always held the middle ground when it came to either attacking or defending the whole Lifehouse project. On one hand, however ambitious and over-the-top the plot may have been (oh boy, and it definitely was),… Read More ›
Top 5 Albums Released In 1969
#5. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground The leaving of the avant-gardist John Cale and the arriving of Doug Yule, a multi-instrumentalist who’s even got a sweet little voice, caused the sound of The Velvet Underground to suffer a… Read More ›
Top 5 Albums Released In 1968
#5. The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow And the award for the first rock opera goes to… (*drum roll*)… The Pretty Things, ladies and gentlemen! I always knew they had it in them! Let’s see who dares to call them… Read More ›
Album Review : The Kinks – Everybody’s in Show-Biz (1972)
“Sitting in my hotel, hiding from the dramas of this great big world.” Rating : 9/10 ‘Muswell Hillbillies’ is often said to the last good Kinks album, yet, his little successor brother, ‘Everybody’s In Show-Biz’, never seems to get any… Read More ›