Nite Songs

Well, we did the intro yesterday and I guess we can't put this off any longer unfortunately. Hold yer noses, we're going in, the Nite Songs Worst 50 Albums Ever countdown officially starts here... *** 50. BAD RELIGION - "Into The Unknown" (1983) Of course, nowadays Bad Religion are rightly hailed as a seminal LA punk band (we'll ignore the fact that Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph label was responsible for inflicting the musical abortion that is Falling In Reverse on the world in recent years) but it almost didn't happen like that. Following their furious 1982 debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse? , the group decided on a radical change of direction by going prog, complete with synthesisers. I mean, fair play, they weren't the only early US punk band to try a change of sound that confused their fans (fellow early '80s hardcore types TSOL infamously first went goth/art-rock and then biker rock) but it's safe to say that jumping over to the sort of music ...

  Oh sod it, y'know what, I'm just gonna say it - yes I am a Queen fan and no I'm not ashamed. It's easy to see why they're a band who get a fair bit of stick, they were unashamedly pompous and overblown and...well, the less said about Brian May and Roger Taylor's attempts to keep the thing going since Freddie Mercury's untimely passing the better. But all that ignores that on their day, Queen were bloody good. Their six album run from their 1973 debut to 1977's News of the World  is one of the great runs of quality albums and even their efforts afterwards usually have at least a few classics in there to make them worth a listen. In Freddie Mercury they had one of rock's great showmen who could hold a crowd in the palm of his hand with consummate ease and had one of the  great rock voices of all time. Behind him, Brian May's superb guitar work and the ultra-tight rhythm section of John Deacon and Roger Taylor provided him with a formiable backing...