The Voice Of Unreason

Released: 1976

The story of the Flamin’ Grooovies fourth album deserves more than a few lines, but in summary, formed in San Francisco in 1965, the quintet split with original singer Roy Loney in 1971 after success had eluded them. Eighteen year old Chris Wilson took his place and Wilson and guitarist Cyril Jordan immediately gelled as songwriters. With the...

Its long lamented subject matter, but despite the two sets of media being perfect for each other, the impact of music on TV – unless you count that licensed to adverts – has been in terminal decline for decades. The most obvious manifestation of that was the recent demise of the formerly king making MTV, but in the UK the long running Later..Jools series with former Squeeze m...

Steve Jones’ famous quote “Actually, we’re not into music..we’re into chaos” rarely threw itself itself more appropriately forward than to the world of Tony Wilson’s Factory Records, or indeed to the label’s enfants terribles the Happy Mondays. In the course of eighteen bizarre and tumultuous months they would both it’s saviour and destroyer, but even through the prism of thr...

To no doubt a smaller group of people than he’d like Andy Crofts will be a very familiar name. Having formed The Moons in the mid-noughties, they’re against the tone retro style won them admirers and attracted Edwyn Collins ...

There’s no such thing as an album that’s a perfect 10 – but there those that are one notch below. The 9’s is an occasional series which explores some of those records.

Released: 1989

Evan Dando’s oft-repeated line about The Lemonheads being the seventh best band in Boston at the turn of the eighties had more than a grain of truth in it, such was t...