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 ...

  "I know you wanna try and get away/But it's the hardest thing you'll ever do..."  - Supergrass  - Richard III In It For The Money  was arguably the last great Britpop album. Often overshadowed by Supergrass' debut I'm gonna go right out on a limb here and say that to my ears at least it's a far superior effort and probably Gaz Coombes and co's finest hour. As with a lot of people, I'd first become aware of the band via their debut I Should Coco  and the "good on its first few listens, more irritating than a dose of scabies afterwards" mega-hit Alright . To be honest, I still have mixed feelings about I Should Coco  now. I know a fair few people who regard it as the point where '90s indie crossed the threshold into being unforgivably commercial never to return and, while I wouldn't go that far, I'll be the first to admit it doesn't sound quite as special as it did when my 16-year-old ears first heard it in 1995. There...