Nite Songs

Here we go then, once more unto the breach, our official worst 5 albums ever (well, 7, there’s a three way tie in there). Seatbelts on, this is gonna get messy… PREVIOUSLY IN THIS COLUMN:   Intro  •  Part 1 (50-41)  •  Part 2 (40-31)  •  Part 3 (30-21)  •  Part 4 (20-16)   •  Part 5 (15-11)  • Part 6 (10-6) 5.= METALLICA - "St Anger" (2003) 5.= LOU REED - "Metal Machine Music" (1975) 5.= LOU REED & METALLICA - "Lulu" (2012) I'm grouping these three together for obvious reasons but basically all of them are deserving of a place in the Top 5. Bear with us, this might take a while. So, St Anger  then - there's few incidents that I look back on from my music journalism career and genuinely think "yeah, f**kinell I really got that wrong" but this album is one of 'em. I reviewed it for a print 'zine I was working for at the time and gave it 9/10 on the grounds that, in my own words, "they've rediscovered the riffs!" Un...

  "The mutants, creeps and musclemen are shaking like a leaf/It blows a hole in the radio when it hasn't sounded good all week"  - The Clash , Hitsville UK So after last week's Metallica entry , we're gonna be leaving the '90s alone for a little bit on Garbage Days Revisited. As I said earlier, by the time I hit my Uni years I was finally starting to get hip to music from outside my '90s timeframe. Admittedly my first tentative steps outside it were checking out bands who were often namechecked by my favourite bands - as well as Metallica's aforementioned Garage Inc  album, the Wildhearts ' evergreen ode to the bands that set Ginger on his way 29 x The Pain  was another where I was starting to look up some of these outfits like the Replacements, the Sex Pistols, Cheap Trick, the Ramones...and the Clash. The fact that Strummer and co were also frequently namechecked by another of my favourites in this era the Manic Street Preachers probably didn...