Music, News & Commentary, Recorded 45 YEARS SINCE – BLACK SABBATH'S 'BLACK SABBATH' AND 'PARANOID' James Rose Take some guys, dress them in black and stand them in front of an unkempt country church, preferably under an …
Music, News & Commentary 35 YEARS SINCE AC/DC'S 'BACK IN BLACK' James Rose Music can get pretty complicated. Production techniques and superstar producers can put as much weight on the way an album …
Music, News & Commentary 25 YEARS SINCE – MADONNA'S IMMACULATE COLLECTION James Rose My 12-year-old daughter listens to the usual bevy of flashy female singers: Swift to Gomez, Perry to Goulding. Now they …
Music, News & Commentary 40 Years since: BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS' “LIVE!” James Rose Musical acts don’t generally make their name on a live album. Usually the act is well-established and the live set comes …
Music, News & Commentary 35 YEARS SINCE — U2'S 'BOY' James Rose Boys. The vast majority of popular music over the last decades has been aimed largely at this demographic — including those …
Music, News & Commentary 20 YEARS SINCE BJORK'S 'POST' — WHERE MAINSTREAM MUSIC COULD HAVE GONE James Rose Iceland seems like a strange place. With its weird language and pale blond people living in toy houses it has …
Music, News & Commentary 20 years since: Silverchair's Frogstomp James Rose There’s a band of kids in every hall in the country. Teenagers hitting postures and clanging half-arsed chords, pretending to …
Music, News & Commentary 20 YEARS SINCE: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS' EXIT PLANET DUST James Rose Imagine the sound inside a person’s head. Let’s say those electronic impulses and blips were well wired up and mic’d …
Music, News & Commentary 15 YEARS SINCE: POWDERFINGER'S ODYSSEY #5 James Rose What is it about a soft, high-pitched voice against a hard rock back drop? Think Led Zepp and Plant or …
Music, News & Commentary 30 YEARS SINCE: DIRE STRAITS' 'BROTHERS IN ARMS' ALBUM James Rose There are those for whom vinyl is unsurpassed as a music listening medium. For decades, popular music did well enough …