1960s

As already elaborated in other reviews on this blog, I don’t care much for the 1960s, I have no special […]

“That’s a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It’s apocalypse; the whole record’s like that. It’s a very rough, very violent

I came of age in the Northwest of England during the era of Britpop, so it is sobering indeed to

Why is there a big banana on the cover of this album? Would a psychoanalytic interpretation be too obvious? If

I come from a small town in the north-west of England where people are more spectacularly and disturbingly saturnalian than

Apparently, the emergence of punk during the 1970s represented a caesura in the history of modern popular music because it

When I were a lad, growing up in the 90s, Revolver was routinely picked by music critics as “the greatest

So, as mentioned in the Rubber Soul review, I’m not a huge fan of anything that came out in the

Apparently, on its release in 1966, Pet Sounds proved a bit jarring to most Beach Boys fans. They’d been accustomed