This week we have not one, but two reviews of The Cure’s Wish, the band’s most commercially succesful album which says on it’s back-cover: “the cure are anti-apartheid, all royalties from this album will be donated to amnesty international.” *** “10, 9… 6, 5… 2, 1!” The fireworks exploded in the midnight sky, at different …
My older brothers were ahead of me with The Jam, but I was the one who discovered the Stone Roses. Hell knows what would have become of me without this record. It’s not only the soundtrack of my youth, it IS my youth: beautiful, sun-kissed pop songs with guitars. The Stone Roses was released in …
And do you remember? When too much time was mine… When I was a teenager, I liked nothing better of a Friday evening than lying on my bed, listening to Bauhaus. Periodically my father would fling open the bedroom door and – his oft-professed atheism notwithstanding – forcefully instruct me to ‘turn that bloody racket …
