Last month I talked about my top 10 influential albums so it seemed only fair that this month I take the opposite tack. Here we go – Five albums/artists that strike me as being unworthy of the adulation afforded them. What a positive way to channel all that festering, lockdown negativity.
Here’s my first choice. Yes I know it’s one of the most popular albums of all time. But, for me, there are too many weird noises and the lyrics are nonsensical.
Number 2 in my list of popular albums that I don’t like. I give you this, annoying in the extreme and all over the airwaves in the early 80s. You just couldn’t stop it, unfortunately.
And 3rd in the, mercifully short, list of popular albums that got my goat. It’s the drum machine tapping, synth poking, shiny suit-wearing Duran Duran. As if one Duran were not already too many. I wish they’d stayed in Rio.
4th on the list of where’s the mute button (answer, nowhere in 1975). Freddie was a force of nature to be sure and Love of my Life is a corker. But the main culprit here is the ridiculously overwrought Bohemian Rhapsody. Irksome in the extreme (my wife disagrees of course). Especially if you used to work for a company called Galileo.
The 5th and final of my musical nemeses. I love Bruce as much as anyone, although I’m more a fan of his pre “hey baby” skinny Bruce period. This isn’t a bad album as such. I just feel it could have been so much more if he hadn’t just released the C90 cassette he had in his pocket.
On the bike front this month, I was pleased to be a runner up in competition held by a local company specialising in electric bikes. Electric Bikes Brisbane asked for details of how riding an electric bike had changed peoples lives. I duly shared my experiences and was awarded a $250 gift voucher for my efforts. I spent this on the purchase of a pair of very spiffy Ortlieb bike panniers as shown below.
If you want to know about my musical predilections or cycling experiences look no further than My Brother’s Bicycle.