Nite Songs

  "'Ey dude, let's party..."  - W.A.S.P.  - Blind In Texas W.A.S.P. were probably one of the last few glam metal bands to hang on in the charts after the grunge nuclear winter hit and ironically it was early '92 when I first got into 'em. They had a song called Chainsaw Charlie (Murders In The New Morgue) . It had a cover featuring lead singer Blackie Lawless holding a bloody chainsaw while grinning maniacally. I inadvertently left my copy on the kitchen table after buying it, my parents found it and were genuinely concerned that I was converting to Satanism. I mean, I really don't think I need to explain why I loved 'em do I? The truth is of course that I was very late in the day getting into W.A.S.P. and to be honest, the fact that they were still hanging in and scoring chart hits in 1992 even as Smells Like Teen Spirit  was killing '80s metal off at a frightening rate, probably deserves respect. The truth is though that the group would only chal...

PREVIOUSLY IN THIS COLUMN:   Intro  •  Part 1 (50-41) Yup, it's that time again. Grit your teeth and strap yourself in as we wander further into the depths of Nite Songs' Worst Albums Ever. You have been warned... 40. WENDY JAMES - "Now Ain't The Time For Your Tears" (1993) I did warn you in the intro to this thing yesterday that although Transvision Vamp's critically derided but not actually that bad  Little Magnets vs The Bubble of Babble  album had missed out on this that Wendy James might not be so lucky. In the wake of TV's breakup following the  Little Magnets  album, Wendy announced that she would be collaborating with one of her heroes Elvis Costello on a new project which turned out to be the  Now Ain't The Time For Your Tears  album. According to the rumours, Costello basically whacked all ten of the songs on this album out in the space of a weekend and oh boy, it shows. The likes of lead-off single  London's Brilliant  an...