Music Reviews and all that!

All Boy Bands, infact all equivalent Girl bands, Spice Girls..Girl Power...er, right. Wet, Wet, Wet, Pink Floyd, Levellers, Aerosmith, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beautiful South,Simply Red, Eric Clapton, Chris De Burgh, Elton John, Dire Straits, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Erasure, Green Day, Jimi Hendrix, James, Cliff Rychard, Prince, Texas, Lighthouse Family, shit this is depressing....nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

The Mission, All About Eve, Babybird, Shed 7, Human League, Heaven 17, Cabaret Voltaire, Ian Astbury ( The Cult ), ABC, Little Angels ( OUCH! ), Longpigs, Saxon, Steve Hogarth ( Marillion ), Housemartins, Green Gartside ( Scritti Politti ), Embrace, Tasmin Archer, Paradise Lost,Throbbing Gristle, Sisters Of Mercy, Gang Of Four, Chumbawamba, CUD, Mel B, Gareth Gates, Kiki Dee,Slammer, New Model Army, Samson, Def Leppard, Pulp, Moloko,Sarah Blackwood ( Dubstar ), Tony Christie...ok theres loads more, but I'm done!

And now a picture of a Yorkshire Terrier.....

What can you say about this 3rd album by the then Glasgow post punk band??. I Travel is like some skewed electric disco, where Today I Died Again is Banshee-esque and hints of early goth. Theres oddities on this too, Constantinople Line is wierd aswell as out of place on this album, it would have been well positioned on the previous albu, Real to Reel etc..

I don't think the band were clear what direction they needed to take at this point, punk had died out, they werent full on doom and gloom and they never looked like taking a mellow stab at new wave pop, well not until New Gold Dream in 82.

Nethertheless a great album which stands the test of time even now, 26 years on!!!!!

Marks out of 10: 8

Nobody can deny that The Misfits have influenced some funny bands downt he years, their rocky punk blend of all things strangely sinister and macarbe is legendary, vampire nonsense and pure silliness prevail, which makes them very likeable really.

My fave song by them is of course Last Caress, its a very odd lyric, extremely tasteless and mixes weedy punk rock guitar with an out of place vocal....one of punk / rocks strange moments!.

Check out too, We are 138 and Return of the Fly....not genius classics but love em all the same!

Top 10 Band Names ( although having compiled this, I may return with a further 10!!! )

1. A Flock Of Seagulls
2. Throbbing Gristle
3. Half Man Half Biscuit
4. Depeche Mode
5. This Mortal Coil
6. Human League
7. Manic Street Preachers
8. Soft Cell
9. Fields Of Nephilim
10. Orchestral Maneovures In The Dark