Nite Songs

PREVIOUSLY IN THIS COLUMN:   Intro  •  Part 1 (50-41) Yup, it's that time again. Grit your teeth and strap yourself in as we wander further into the depths of Nite Songs' Worst Albums Ever. You have been warned... 40. WENDY JAMES - "Now Ain't The Time For Your Tears" (1993) I did warn you in the intro to this thing yesterday that although Transvision Vamp's critically derided but not actually that bad  Little Magnets vs The Bubble of Babble  album had missed out on this that Wendy James might not be so lucky. In the wake of TV's breakup following the  Little Magnets  album, Wendy announced that she would be collaborating with one of her heroes Elvis Costello on a new project which turned out to be the  Now Ain't The Time For Your Tears  album. According to the rumours, Costello basically whacked all ten of the songs on this album out in the space of a weekend and oh boy, it shows. The likes of lead-off single  London's Brilliant  an...

  "If life is a radio, turn it up to ten!"  - Kiss - Crazy Crazy Nights It always used to make me chuckle in the early days of living in London about a decade ago before Soho was ruined by gentrification thanks to the fat greedy useless f**k who's somehow managed to now crawl his way up to the post of Prime Minister how upon visiting the Crobar or the 12 Bar and running into an American rocker tourist taking in the sights (and trust me, there always used to be a few of 'em dotted about) how, if the conversation got onto Kiss and you mentioned Crazy Crazy Nights  being the group's biggest hit over here they'd usually get an expression on their face akin to that of a Victorian gentleman who'd just been plonked in a helicopter pilot's seat at 30,000 feet and asked to fly the thing. The general consensus about Kiss is that their '70s stuff was their heyday and once Ace Frehley and Peter Criss left it was basically all just piling dirt on the coffin fro...