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Enemy, The: The Enemy: Music For The People

Review by Paul Moody, Q, May 2009

The Coventry trio face the classic second-album conundrum — play it safe or stretch themselves. The answer: try and do both. ...

Jam, The: The Jam: The Gift (Polydor POLD 5055)

Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 6 March 1982

MAN'S GIFT... ...

Oasis: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2000

Change of producer and change of mood for long-awaited fourth album ...

The Jam: In The City

Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 14 May 1977

I HEARD the Jam's single 'In The City' on the radio the other day. The bass came roaring up from the mix and through the ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Forces Of Victory (Island ILPS 9566)*****

Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 24 March 1979

Stricker ishion (Roughly translated, some of the finest reggae ever made in England) ...

Massive Attack: Mezzanine

Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, May 1998

Eagerly-anticipated follow-up to 1994’s Protection, 64 minutes of guitar-driven downbeats, featuring the toppermost tonsils of Horace Andy and the angelic ambience of Liz Fraser on ...

Jam, The: The Jam: The Gift (Polydor)

Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 6 March 1982

ALTHOUGH THERE is every possibility that any of a hundred lesser known bands have the potential to one day produce as good an artefact as ...

John Martyn: Heaven And Earth

Review by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, June 2011

IN LATE 2006 I interviewed John Martyn in the beer garden of his local in Thomastown, Kilkenny. In between bombing pints of cider laced with ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Charisma)

Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 7 June 1980

YOU COULDN'T call Peter Gabriel prolific. And neither of his solo albums so far have lived up to expectations, mainly because the ideas and the ...

The Jam: Direction Reaction Creation

Review by Keith Cameron, NME, May 1997

IF WE ACCEPT pop as the religion of youth in the last quarter of the 20th century, then there can be no more striking example ...

Dr. John: Dr John, The Night Tripper: Gris-Gris

Review by David Cavanagh, Uncut, April 2014

ROCK HAS TRADITIONALLY looked to Louisiana with an envious eye. The history. The imagery. The swamps. Songwriters who didn't know one end of an alligator ...

Blur: Parklife

Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, June 1994

TO USE the vernacular of our friends in the American therapy industry, today's music business is not "a nurturing environment". One might use the expression ...

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