November 2008 Archives

Nuclear Pope Sex Dolls.
Not four words you'd expect to see in the same sentence.
But when you plunge your hand into the mixed bag that is the Rock & Roll Circus, you really ain't got a clue what you're gonna pull out.
This week, as well as the (n)ever popular and endless list of hideous album covers, I've delved a little deeper to form the first in an equally endless list of some of the worst band names of all time. And I'll tell you now; for every Sex Pistols, there's a Nuclear Pope Sex Dolls. And it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
Also, as part of a new regular feature, we'll be taking a look at what should be filling that gaping chasm in your cd collection in: Records Everyone Should Own.
So it's time to take your seats, lower the lights, and raise the red curtain on another chapter of the Rock & Roll Circus.

Sometimes, there's no need for words.
And if the old saying, that a picture can paint a thousand of 'em is true, then less is definitely more, here.
In the first instalment of a regular series, the curtains raise on the Rock & Roll Circus with a quick glance down some of the darker corridors of the music Hall of Fame -
Album covers.
Funny things, album covers.
Lost art form, and all o' that.
But not every recording artist has been lucky enough to have their own little Sgt Pepper to show off after a hard day at the studio.
Some, rather than pieces of artwork, are just plain...weird.