Ten years on from their breakthrough album Tin Drum, members of Japan reconvened for this lovely one off reunion. Bravely not cashing in on the Japan name despite the success of the single Ghosts, reaching No.5 on the UK chart in 1981, it seems that David Sylvian had moved on. In the ten years since Japan […]
Although Temple Of The Dog (1991) was the first album that I had that featured Chris Cornell, I had forgotten that it had been conceived by him as a tribute to his friend and Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood after his death from a heroin overdose in 1990. Featuring Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, […]
As I continue my theme of tears, many will be shed today for Prince and as this year’s death toll grows the Grim Reaper continues to gorge itself on the unlikeliest of victims – we wonder how it chooses to take Prince over Ozzy despite reputations. With details sketchy at this point we don’t yet know […]
Released in 1991 from their debut album, Ferment, Black Metallic is one of the most memorable songs by the pride of Great Yarmouth, Catherine Wheel. Singer, guitarist, Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes, and drummer Neil Sims were essentially Shoegazers that could write songs, incorportaing feedback and tunes, fuzzy loud then eerily quiet, they successfully ticked all the Post-Grunge […]
Between 1984 and 1991 This Mortal Coil released three moody masterpieces, It’ll End In Tears (1984), Filigree And Shadow (1986) and Blood (1991). The brainchild of 4AD ‘s co-founder and tastemaker Ivo Watts-Russell, the plan seems to have been to take lost classics from the sixties and seventies and reinterpret them within the circle of […]
Rhinoceros was the second single after Siva from Smashing Pumpkins debut album, Gish. It was co-produced with Butch Vig and main songwriter/singer/lead guitarist Billy Corgan and released in 1991 through Caroline records in the US and Hut in the UK. It was also released on a 4-track EP called Lull and this was perfect timing […]