![]() ![]() From the batshit-crazy rave-up that is Fiesta to the cry-in-your-beer Fairytale Of New York, never has an album so perfectly caught the spirit (both kinds) of a pub lock-in. What they said at the time: “The music offered no light, no respite – but kept plunging further and further into a heart of darkness.” NME 98) If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues (1988)īy their third album, The Pogues had perfected their anarchic folk/punk fusion. 1986’s Album also made symbolic peace between the voice of punk and hard rock’s supposed dinosaurs, with the likes of Ginger Baker and Steve Vai among the thunderous hired guns who appeared on the record. ![]() Rise was the single that returned John Lydon to the charts, with its Apartheid-inspired lyrics and defining mantra that ‘anger is an energy’. What they said at the time: “Too priggish and conceited… Gothic as a brick.” Sounds 99) Album - PiL (1986) Peter Murphy called himself “an optimist with nihilistic tendencies”, and like Hammer’s later horror movies, his band winked while they shrieked. Though it lacked their spooked single of the previous year, Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Bauhaus’ debut helped set goth’s template with its chilly, knowing alienation, and a stylishly cinematic gloom suiting the decade’s monochrome, depressed start. ![]()
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