1984 - Roger Miret & Disasters (The)

Advantages: Punk roots still hold their own.
Disadvantages: Lacks any kind of originality or self-worth.

...be allowed to get, as a brotherly tribute to the band's closest friends and community spirit. But still shouted and bitter, obviously. Roger Miret's hardcore yell is enough to put me off ever listening to this band again, threatening to mellow out as late as the eleventh song, but still not quite getting there. I've never been a fan of this confrontational vocal style (makes you wonder why I listen to this genre at all really), and although the rest of the instruments are a little better than the average for punk, it's all but expected for such a relatively high profile band. There's plenty of swearing and aggro, balanced out by occasional positive feelings to prove that the band is still human, though to be honest the self-explanatory 'Forgive Me Mother' is a little cringe-worthy in its sentiment, and it's hard to take Miret completely seriously... Read review

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Advantages: Uplifting, full of fun, vocally excellent, instrumentally striking.
Disadvantages: The 5 minute spoken outro is incredibly unnecessary.

...'Nothing to Prove' is the long awaited fifth studio album from the American hardcore punk band that is H2O. There was a seven year gap between the release of fourth album 'Go' and this 2008 Bridge Nine released record that is 'Nothing to Prove'; the name of the album makes the bands opinion very clear that they have nothing to prove to anyone here, the band has been together since 1995 now and has over the years more than proved its worth as an excellent hardcore punk band. The album consists of 10 tracks and this therefore provides for 29 minutes of music. A number of excellent guest vocalists feature here such as Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba, Gorilla Biscuits main man Anthony Civarelli, and Agnostic Front's vocalist Roger Miret also amongst others; it's great to hear the guest contributions here and always the bands music has much... Read review

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Advantages: 10 great songs that showcase the talents of Queen to the full
Disadvantages: 2 songs about Freddie's cats

...We weren't to know it until months after it's release, but Innuendo was Queen's final album before Freddie Mercury's untimely death in November 1991. It's an album which is possibly the best work the band put together since 1984's The Works. Innuendo the opening track gave the band their 2nd Number One single in the UK chart (following 1975's Bohemian Rhapsody) and is almost as masterly as Bo-Rhap. The song has a very flamenco feel to it in parts and is quite unique. I'm Going Slightly Mad, with hindsight seems to be a Freddie penned track about the illness which was to lead to his death. A humorous take on coping with enforced changes. Headlong is just what Queen do best. Rock! It's unfortunate that this song could never been performed in a stadium, because it would have surely become a live classic in years to come. I Can't Live... Read review

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