Amy exploded onto the pop scene this year with her second album, Back to Black, and onto the front pages of the tabloids with her various antics involving her boyfriend/husband and drugs. Her most famous song is Rehab and kickstarts the album here. 'They tried to mke me go to...

You must know bob Marley. The man who with the help of a certain Chris Blackwell of Island records, brough Reggae to the masses. He brought us many excellent records before he succumbed to cancer. And in the style of reggae and the Jamaican sound systems they all have awesome bass. One...

With its suitably ambitious title, Jah Wobble's Invaders' second album crams an enormous range of styles and influences into its 60 minutes or so of running time. The album sounds like more like a label sampler than a homogenous piece by a single band. Dolores O'Riordain of the cranberries, Chaka...

Preceded by the massive and brilliant single 'Common People' Diferent Class established Pupl as one memeber of the Triumvirate of British bands in the mid 1990s alongside Oasis and Blur. They, however, displayed less rock and more pop sensibilities than these other two. The whole album, lyrically, seems to be...

Although 'Different Class' established Pulp at the very forefront of British music in 1995, it was the previous album 'His 'n hers' which had fulfilled their early promise. The classic song, 'Babies' featured as a track off teh cd and cassette of that album but strangely not on the vinyl....

Around 1993 vinyl sales had reached their nadir. Sales had plummeted as cassettes and now CDs had surpassed in sales and seemingly noone was buying records anymore. Apart from DJs and some weird class of being called an audiophile. Island recognised all of the above. In what looks like a cost...

I was in a nightclub when I heard a track which was very familiar yet brilliantly different. It had all the heartache and tension of the original and yet managed even more soaring melancholy. It was the Thin White duke mix of Mr. Brightside by the Killers. A track which...

The Killers hit it big with their first album. Although an imperfect album, it had some very catchy and very rousing songs. Everywhere, student discos throbbed to 'Somebody told me' and 'Mr. Brightside' while ending with 'All these things that I have done'. The lead single off the album is...

There are some bands you just fall out of love with. Despite enjoying just about everything from U2's early days to the mid-90's my enthusiasm for the Irish superstars has all but disappeared. Their last effort (quoted in despatches as a return to form) All That You Can't Leave Behind...

U2 polarise opinion. While they're one of the largest bands in the world people seem to either love or hate their music. Audiophiles on the other hand seem to universally deride their albums. They all sound awful. Well this mini album of four songs(there was a withdrawn release with an extra track)...