Nite Songs

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...

One of the best things about running your own music webzine is when you get positive feedback. It's always nice when bands get in touch to say "hey, thanks for covering our music on your blog" or readers feel moved enough to write in and say they enjoy my deranged scribblings. It genuinely makes you feel that you're doing something worthwhile and feel just that little bit better about life. I mainly say this because I know that this one-off feature we're running on Nite Songs  for the next week is probably going to upset some people. Doing a Worst Albums Ever article is always a risky business because, in the words of a musician friend of mine from back in the days when I used to write for Leeds Music Scene, "Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody's got one. And most people's are full of shit." If anything here over the next week offends you, please bear in mind that this is just my take on things - I'm fully aware that there may be some peop...