Man I love this album. Yeah, I know that every hard core Stones connoisseur will tell you that Exile On Main Street is the album where the distillation of their garage, blues, country and rock n’ roll influences fused to create their finest recorded moment (and I love that album too), but my favourite Stones album is Sticky Fingers. To be honest it’s hard to separate the … [Read more...]
Sunnyboys – Sunnyboys
September 1981. I’m in my last year of high school and supposed to be studying for my final exams, but there’s this hot new band from Sydney whose album I’ve rushed out to buy and I can’t stop thrashing it on the little 3 in 1 stereo in my bedroom. I play the record so much that after a couple of weeks I swear the vinyl is only half as thick as it used to be. Unfortunately I’m … [Read more...]
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
For the best part of a decade Elton John’s creative output was astonishing, not just in terms of the amount of music he was delivering but the quality of it. From June 69 through to October 78 he released 12 albums, including the phenomenal double Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. That effectively equates to 13 albums loaded with some exceptional music in just 9 years. He didn’t … [Read more...]