Nite Songs Top 70 Albums of 2024 - Part 2 (60-51)
Welcome to the second part of our end of year rundown as we look at those albums who agonisingly missed the Top 50 by a whisker. *** 60. THE CURE - "Songs Of A Lost World" Okay so I'll admit it - when I first heard this album, I didn't get what the fuss was all about. This is very much the Cure in their less accessible mode with the 8 songs on Songs Of A Lost World clocking in at over 50 minutes. Yet persevere with this album and its highlights start to reveal themselves as the dark fug surrounding the likes of Warsong , Nothing Is Forever and the epic closer Endsong slowly dissipates to reveal a band who are still capable of surprising you in the fifth decade of their existence. *** 59. JOE SOLO - "Sledgehammer Songs" Scarborough's finest left wing troubadour Joe Solo keeps on his good run of recent form with Sledgehammer Songs , another heartfelt collection of socialist anthems in waiting. From angry diatribe...