Not a brilliant year musically, but a big improvement on 1982. Metal continued to get more attention, synthesizers were getting everywhere, over-production was becoming the norm, and British jazz/funk/pop was getting ready to take over the decade. Pink Floyd, Genesis and Yes all brought out new albums so us 70’s survivors had something to cling […]

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It has to be said that 1982 was a pretty poor year for music. Yes it had highlights like The Number of the Beast,  Town Called Malice and The Message but they stand out even more for being rare diamonds in a pile of poo. Most years you can look at a list of debut […]

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The 70’s are out of the way now, we’ll never see their like again. The 80’s started with a bang, only the first year of the decade and there were already all the elements that would define the musical decade. And 1980 had the one thing that 1979 was missing – a new Genesis album, […]

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I’ll try to make this short, but be warned: 1979 is my year. For me it is the best year for music ever, for many reasons but principally because the best album (in my opinion) was released in this year, and that is almost reason enough. This was a transitional time. The 70’s were ready […]

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A couple of things first: Yes I am shoving out a lot of these posts lately. It is because I realised that I am bloody old so a playlist of one song per year is going to take ages if I only do one a week or something like that. We are getting closer to […]

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The year of punk, at last! For many people punk rock appeared in 1977 with the silver jubilee and all that, but the first stirrings were in 1976 hen those of us who religiously read the NME and Melody Maker every week and listened to John Peel after lights out had heard about all the […]

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I’ll be honest, I was going to pick Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir to sum up 1975, or shine on you Crazy Diamond, but realised that Hot Chocolate just brings back the memories of that year so much better. Bohemian Rhapsody would have been just too obvious, and I’m a bit tired of it now anyway.

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