143. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before on here, but one of my favourite films is “Almost Famous”. It’s whimsical, sure,…
Quarkmonkey’s 1001 Album challenge
One man’s thoughts on the 1001 Albums he apparently needs to listen to before he dies
I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before on here, but one of my favourite films is “Almost Famous”. It’s whimsical, sure,…
“Every man knows he’s a sissy compared to Johnny Cash” – Bono “San Quentin, may you rot and burn in…
Now I’m not saying I’ve got a grudge against country rock or anything. I’m down for some Eagles or Harry…
There’s a bit at the beginning of the new Captain America movie where a fellow vet tells Steve Rogers, who’s…
Crosby, Stills and Nash, arguably the first ‘supergroup’, made up of the best bits of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and…
Creedence Clearwater Revival were cool. 1969 was a time for a lot of country and roots rock to raise its…
“Oh it sounds like a ball of rusty barbed wire. It sounds like a piece of the Somme, lifted up…
I grew up knowing about Neil Young more by reputation than by actually hearing any of his stuff. In my…
Who listens to Frank Zappa? Seriously? Who is it that decides to set the mood for a quiet night in…
Arguably, side D is where it all unravels. It certainly feels shorter than the other sides, and more disparate, disobedient…
Like I said in my last review, each side of “The White Album” has a unique character, and for me,…
The adventure continues on side B with the charming “Martha my Dear”, another one of Macca’s ditties to Jane Asher,…
NOTE: This is a behemoth of an album, and as such I’ve broken my review into four pieces to save…
I’m not going to do it this time. Honest I’m not. Last time I reviewed a Byrds album I went…
“What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is…
There’s something romantic about the idea of a band that’s already decided to implode putting an album together. No commercial…
I discovered Scott Walker through a random Our Price bargain bin purchase of “Scott Walker sings Jacques Brel” back when…
Discussing with a colleague the other day, we thought of the idea of music as a revolutionary force with pretty…
Quarkmonkey starts gearing up for the 1970s with this under appreciated blues gem from the similarly underrated Jeff Beck (with Rod Stewart on vocals too).
“That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it’s the most influential record in the history of rock…
I love being British sometimes. I’m not really the flag-waving type, but after listening to a lot of west coast…
It sort of faded as they got more confident, and thankfully it’s pretty much absent by “Bridge Over Troubled Water”,…
The Pretty Things would seem at first glance to be an epitome of 60s also-rans. Coming from a background of…
Even the review in the book skips past Side A, and given the fact that it’s Iron Butterfly and the…