Mind Bomb is the third studio album by The The, released by Some Bizzare/Epic on July 11, 1989 and recorded between October 1988 and May 1989. For this album, instead of recording with numerous session musicians as he did previously, Matt Johnson assembled a genuine band behind him to play the bulk of the instrumentation … Read more
Echo & the Bunnymen is the fifth studio album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen, and the last with drummer Pete de Freitas. The album was produced by Laurie Latham who recorded the album in Germany, Belgium, London and Liverpool after an aborted attempt at recording the album without de Freitas and … Read more
Faith is the third studio album by English alternative rock band The Cure, released on 14 April 1981 by record labels Fiction and Polydor. Preceded by the single “Primary”, the album was a moderate success commercially but was received ambivalently by critics. Faith saw The Cure continuing in the gothic rock vein of 1980’s Seventeen … Read more
Pornography is the fourth studio album by British band The Cure, originally released in 1982 and re-mastered and re-released in 2005. Once described as “Phil Spector in Hell”, it is “The Cure’s most gothic album”. Recorded with the group on the brink of collapse, it represents the conclusion of the musical phase which began with … Read more
The Top is the fifth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1984. The Top was the studio album to follow Pornography. After Pornography, Robert Smith found himself without his friend Simon Gallup, who departed the band due to a fight. Smith then took a radical shift in his music. Just months after … Read more
This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This! is the second album by UK based Grebo band, Pop Will Eat Itself. The album did well in the UK going at number #24 for two weeks in the UK Charts, it also went at number #169 in the Billboard charts for six weeks.
Though early comparisons were made to Joni Mitchell, Suzanne Vega’s true antecedents were Janis Ian and Leonard Cohen. Like Ian, she sings with a precise, frequently half-spoken phrasing that gives her lyrics an intensity that seems to suggest an unsteady control consciously held over emotional chaos. Like Cohen, Vega observes the world in poetic metaphor, … Read more
Lincoln is the second album by the band They Might Be Giants. It was released by Bar/None in 1988. The album is named after John Linnell and John Flansburgh’s boyhood home of Lincoln, Massachusetts. The album produced three singles — “Ana Ng”, “They’ll Need a Crane”, and “Purple Toupee”. It is included on Then: The … Read more
In My Tribe is an album by the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant’s songwriting partner on previous albums, left the band in 1986. Merchant began collaborating with the other members of the band, most notably with Rob … Read more