Kiwi space-rock band Ragnarok’s 1975 debut has been rediscovered and reissued. GARY STEEL with an in-depth assessment.
Music history
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #16 – Manic Street Preachers’ Resistance Is Futile
The Manic Street Preachers’ depressing schtick gets well and truly tired on an album that MATT KELLY wished never existed.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #15 – Nicky Wire’s I Killed The Zeitgeist
Why did the Manic Street Preachers let Nicky Wire out to sing so horrendously on his solo disc? MATT KELLY can only sigh.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Fast Food Rockers’ diabetes-enhancer
MATT KELLY valiantly warns the unsuspecting music fan to stay away from the horrendous 2003 comeback of Stock (of Aitken Waterman).
Forty years ago… NZ post-punk band Rank And File
Back in 1982 GARY STEEL had a bit of a chat with Auckland post-punk group Rank And File.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Stranglers’ 10
The last gasp of the original Stranglers lineup, 10 is an execrable, lame and indefensibly weak way to bid adieu, writes MAT KELLY.
1001 albums you must die before you hear – The Stranglers’ Feline
The bad boys of rock’n’roll complete an appallingly swift transformation into a bad pop band on Feline writes MATT KELLY.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Florence Foster Jenkins
She sang so badly that people turned up in their droves to laugh at her sad attempts to “wow” New York. MATT KELLY on Florence Foster Jenkins.