My 100 Favourite Albums Ranked
My attempt to compile a list of my 100 favourite albums ranked. In fact, it is nothing of the sort – but it is still packed with great rock and indie albums.
Compiling My 100 Favourite Albums Ranked List
The first thing to say about the blog My 100 Favourite Albums Ranked is that it is most definitely not a list of my 100 favourite albums ranked. Just think about it for a moment – how could it be? Let’s start with the…
Queen II Collector’s Edition
There were gaps of, respectively, five and two years between Queen’s first three studio-album collector’s editions – News of the World (2017), The Miracle (2022) and the renamed Queen I (2024). Now their fourth – Queen II – lands after just a seventeen-month hiatus….
Queen I Review
“Queen I is the debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you.” Brian May and Roger Taylor, 2024 The Queen I box set, which was released in October 2024, is the third Queen studio album to get the Collector’s Edition treatment following on…
Genesis Bootleg History Overview
This overview brings together all the blogs I have written in my Genesis Bootleg History series. It is the story of Genesis, told via a selection of bootlegs.
London 1992: Genesis Bootlegs
Our bootleg history of Genesis live concludes with the We Can’t Dance tour, specifically Knebworth in August 1992 and Earls Court in October 1992.
Reflections on Led Zeppelin Part 2
In Through the Out Door is Led Zeppelin’s eighth and final studio album, assuming we are not counting Coda, the compilation of previously unreleased tracks that was issued two years after the band had officially disbanded following drummer John Bonham’s death. It came out…
Reflections on Led Zeppelin Part 1
Friday Morning at the Funhouse with Pete Pardo and Martin Popoff on the Sea of Tranquility [sic] YouTube channel is a great watch/listen for any rock music enthusiast. Pete is the channel’s main man, and Martin is a prolific writer, critic and podcaster in…
Best Queen Singles
Another bank holiday, another ‘best Queen song’ poll – well, best Queen song since the last poll of best Queen songs. I am exaggerating, but not gratuitously so. This time it’s BBC Radio 2’s Your Ultimate Queen Song.