Category: All Reviews
-
4. Bee Gees (and others) – Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Saturday Night Fever is a collection of 70s disco, all featured in the movie of the same name. Despite featuring on the album cover along with a very awkwardly posed John Travolta (it’s so weird, he looks like a Ken doll that was abandoned halfway through playtime), and being listed as the sole artist on…
-
3. Metallica – Metallica (1991)

As I write this introductory paragraph, I have not yet listened to Metallica. To be perfectly honest, I’m not looking forward to it. My prejudices are telling me that it’s going to be the epitome of all the negative stereotypes I associate with the genre; mindless shouting noise with all the intelligence of a brick.…
-
2. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (1977)

Rumours is the first example, most likely of many, of the “oh, that’s who that’s by” phenomenon, where I finally learn the artist and proper title of a song I’ve heard in passing many times before. In this case, Don’t Stop was the cause. I’ve never paid much attention to it, and possibly never will…