Nite Songs

  It's Top 40 time in our Albums of the Year countdown! Cue up your classic TOTP music of choice and let's do this... *** 40. SUPERSUCKERS - "Liquor, Women, Drugs & Killing" Thirty plus years into their career and Eddie Spaghetti and co show no signs of slowing down with Liquor, Women, Drugs & Killing  being a welcome return to form after a couple of so-so efforts. The likes of Maybe I'm Just Messing With You , How Many Turns Will It Take (To Unscrew It Up)  and Meaningful Songs  are the Supersuckers' sense of humour written large with riffs and chorus hooks to match. It ain't big, it ain't clever but you know what? We wouldn't have it any other way. *** 39. THE HELLACOPTERS - "Overdriver" One of the first albums I heard this year and it turned out to be a strong contender in this year's rundown. After the storming return that was 2022's Eyes Of Oblivion , Overdriver  was a worthy follow-up from Nicke Andersson and his cre...

  "Cartoon monkeys got ya hard, it must've been the hair/And though Jive Bunny stole your creative fire, you really didn't care"  - McLusky  - Dethink To Survive McLusky...jeez, where do you start? For five glorious minutes, they were pretty much the best band in Britain only for things to spontaneously combust and them to vanish just as soon as they'd arrived. Having formed in South Wales in the mid-'90s, the group spent half a decade slogging away on the toilet circuit before To Hell With Good Intentions , the lead-off single from their second album, unexpectedly landed them centre stage after picking up plaudits in pretty much every corner of the music press. If you've not heard McLusky before then I really dunno how to describe their sound to you. Their plaudits heralded them as the sound of Chris Morris/Charlie Brooker style gonzo writing applied to post-hardcore while one especially harsh review likened them to Timmy from South Park  fronting the Pix...