![My Bloody Valentine: My Bloody Valentine's fans were left to frustratedly await new music for 22 years after Loveless, but this year mbv arrived casually online and promptly crashed the band's new website thanks to the colossal demand for the new record. Prasied-filled reviews continue to pour in.]()
My Bloody Valentine: My Bloody Valentine's fans were left to frustratedly await new music for 22 years after Loveless, but this year mbv arrived casually online and promptly crashed the band's new website thanks to the colossal demand for the new record. Prasied-filled reviews continue to pour in.
![Guns N Roses: Every since Appetite For Destruction catapulted Guns N Roses to international stardom Axl Rose has been systematically turning the band into a farce. When Chinese Democracy finally arrived, 15 years after GNR's last release, it was the record no one wanted. Axl Rose had already established himself as the world's biggest d**khead and Chinese Democracy did nothing to change anyone's mind.]()
Guns N Roses: Every since Appetite For Destruction catapulted Guns N Roses to international stardom Axl Rose has been systematically turning the band into a farce. When Chinese Democracy finally arrived, 15 years after GNR's last release, it was the record no one wanted. Axl Rose had already established himself as the world's biggest d**khead and Chinese Democracy did nothing to change anyone's mind.
![David Bowie: Earlier this year David Bowie showed us all how comebacks should be done with his 2013 single 'Where Are We Now' - make a record in secret and watch the public go loopy trying to work out how Twitter could've forgotten to mention it. It was a genuine mastersteroke. Come March Bowie fans new and old will go wild when The Next Day is released, the first new album in a decade from a musican we'd all begrudgingly accepted to be retired.]()
David Bowie: Earlier this year David Bowie showed us all how comebacks should be done with his 2013 single 'Where Are We Now' - make a record in secret and watch the public go loopy trying to work out how Twitter could've forgotten to mention it. It was a genuine mastersteroke. Come March Bowie fans new and old will go wild when The Next Day is released, the first new album in a decade from a musican we'd all begrudgingly accepted to be retired.
![Johnny Cash: Many of us think that Johnny Cash always sat atop the worldwide country scene, but actually there was a period when he languished in relative obscurity, making gospel records and singing children's songs. Enter Rick Rubin, who produced American Recordings which saw Cash soar above the country scene and become a recording artist listened to worldwide. Cash and Rubin recorded four more American albums, the last released after Cash's death.]()
Johnny Cash: Many of us think that Johnny Cash always sat atop the worldwide country scene, but actually there was a period when he languished in relative obscurity, making gospel records and singing children's songs. Enter Rick Rubin, who produced American Recordings which saw Cash soar above the country scene and become a recording artist listened to worldwide. Cash and Rubin recorded four more American albums, the last released after Cash's death.
![Meat Loaf: Meat Loaf's debut, Bat Out Of Hell, was arguably one of the best debut albums ever made, but fame brought the usual distractions - drugs and decadence - which saw Meat Loaf lose his voice. But 16 years later he brought us Bat Out Of Hell 2: Back In To Hell, and 'I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't Do That', giving us countless dramatically acted out sing-a-longs. Good work Meat Loaf]()
Meat Loaf: Meat Loaf's debut, Bat Out Of Hell, was arguably one of the best debut albums ever made, but fame brought the usual distractions - drugs and decadence - which saw Meat Loaf lose his voice. But 16 years later he brought us Bat Out Of Hell 2: Back In To Hell, and 'I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't Do That', giving us countless dramatically acted out sing-a-longs. Good work Meat Loaf
![The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones' return to the stage has gone down remarkably well, so well that they think they might keep touring and may even play Glastonbury. Their new recorded material caused less of a stir, though. Most people simply weren't interested in new single Doom & Gloom, despite a video featuring a semi-naked Noomi Rapace, of Prometheus and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.]()
The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones' return to the stage has gone down remarkably well, so well that they think they might keep touring and may even play Glastonbury. Their new recorded material caused less of a stir, though. Most people simply weren't interested in new single Doom & Gloom, despite a video featuring a semi-naked Noomi Rapace, of Prometheus and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
![The Stooges: When the original Stooges got back together in 2007 everyone was a little sceptical. Unfortunately the record they delivered 34 years after the brilliant Raw Power, The Weirdness, impressed no one. A best it's an ill-judged joke, at worst it's a soul-crushing disappointment.]()
The Stooges: When the original Stooges got back together in 2007 everyone was a little sceptical. Unfortunately the record they delivered 34 years after the brilliant Raw Power, The Weirdness, impressed no one. A best it's an ill-judged joke, at worst it's a soul-crushing disappointment.
![Jane's Addiction: When Jane's Addiction returned in 2003 with Strays, only their third studio release, most of us agreed that it wasn't a bad record at all, and 'Just Because' and 'Superhero' are genuinely great tracks. But it could never live up to 1990's Ritual de lo Habitual, and many fans retrospectively feel that Ritual should have been the band's last, enduring masterpiece.]()
Jane's Addiction: When Jane's Addiction returned in 2003 with Strays, only their third studio release, most of us agreed that it wasn't a bad record at all, and 'Just Because' and 'Superhero' are genuinely great tracks. But it could never live up to 1990's Ritual de lo Habitual, and many fans retrospectively feel that Ritual should have been the band's last, enduring masterpiece.
![Blondie: In 1999 Blondie released No Exit, their first record in 17 years. While the record garnered reasonable commercial success, it led to two more albums - Panic of Girls and The Curse Of Blondie - which have been comparatively poor efforts and probably shouldn't have happened.]()
Blondie: In 1999 Blondie released No Exit, their first record in 17 years. While the record garnered reasonable commercial success, it led to two more albums - Panic of Girls and The Curse Of Blondie - which have been comparatively poor efforts and probably shouldn't have happened.