The Boys were perhaps punk’s saddest casualty. They could — indeed, should — have been enormous. Certainly they were one of the finest live acts around, but still they were to languish in comparative obscurity, with even their continental success seemingly working against them. Even worse, when their debut album was reissued on CD, it [...]
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RED ROCKERS: GOOD AS GOLD (1983) + SCHIZOPHRENIC CIRCUS (1984) [1995 Reissue]
Posted: October 15, 2010 in UncategorizedThus armed with no great expectations, Good as Gold came as something of a surprise, starting with the first track. Gone was the raging rhetoric, replaced by a startlingly pretty pop song, “China” filled with articulate, ringing guitars and John Griffith’s newly smoothed-up vocals. With ex-Stiff Little Fingers drummer Jim Reilly in the lineup, Red [...]
Hi guys. About three years ago me and other fools began the adventure of a blog called Power Pop Lovers. Unfortunately the adventure was only active for a year more or less, the reason: a ‘person’ a little bit intransigent. Each of the partners has taken different steps and now mantain blogs that are visited [...]
