Nite Songs

PREVIOUSLY IN THIS COLUMN:   Intro  •  Part 1 (50-41)  • Part 2 (40-31) And so we enter Nite Songs' Top 30 worst albums ever. From veteran rockers losing the plot to bands who arguably never had said plot in the first place, it's a truly grim selection of musical atrociousness we've got for you today. Shall we begin?... 30. SUEDE - "A New Morning" (2001) Probably one of the most disappointing swansong albums of the post-Britpop era. We've already covered Suede in the  Garbage Days Revisited  section of this blog and I was a huge fan of theirs growing up. Unfortunately,  A New Morning  was the sound of a band who had pretty much run out of road and it wasn't a big surprise that it turned out to be their last release for a decade. Following Brett Anderson's decision to get clean following his drugs issues during the recording of the band's previous effort  Head Music , Suede were promising that their next album would see them moving into more u...

  For weeks it's been sat there in my review pile. Goading me. As if to say "c'mon Andy, review me, let some bile loose, I double dog dare ya". Until now I had resisted - these days as a veteran reviewer of two decades plus, I tend to simply skip past albums I'm not fond of without reviewing them as most of the time it's just not worth the arguments it inevitably causes. Sometimes though, the vitriol just gets to the point where it has to be unleashed. And, make no mistake, The Battle At For Fuck's Sake Even The Title Of This Bloody Thing Sounds Like A Led Zeppelin B-Side  is one of those times. The thing about Greta Van Fleet is, it's a bit harsh to criticise bands for slyly thieving the odd influence here and there - let's face it, if we held all our musicians up to that mirror then 99.999% of them would be guilty going right back to the Stones filching a lot of their early ideas from Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. And let's be honest, ba...