Over their thirty-four year career The Fall have released twenty seven albums and have changed their line up numerous times (the list of previous members is thirty-seven names long), leaving vocalist Mark E. Smith as the only constant. Picking one …
Read More: OBG: The Fall – Live At The Witch Trials (1979)
Nick Cave is an odd artist. Never in music has there ever been a performer so charmingly terrifying. His career with The Bad Seeds is a long and illustrious one, and often wallows around in giant pools of darkness, focusing …
Read More: OBG: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Tender Prey (1988)
U2 are a terrible, terrible band. They stand for everything that is embarrassing about stadium filling music and whilst they are undoubtedly influential their grandiose showboating (nobody needs to perform inside a giant claw) and tendency to relax into earnest …
Read More: OBG: U2 – War (1983)
Upon its release in 1984 Ocean Rain garnered fairly mixed reviews. It was certainly a departure of sorts for Echo & The Bunnymen, shunning straight forward, traditional rock songs in favour of the lighter, slower and more complex musical …
Read More: OBG: Echo & The Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
The Sonics are a band of polarity. Across their career their music offers up some fascinating contradictions, and nowhere is this more apparent than on their 1965 debut Here Are The Sonics.
Originating from Tacoma, Washington, The Sonics arguably …
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