Against The Clock - Allan Holdsworth

Advantages: Excellent musicianship, full concert, excellent sound
Disadvantages: No older songs

...There are now more archival live recordings of the Soft Machine in existence than studio albums and British Tour '75 represents one of the more interesting periods of the band's ever changing face. The Soft Machine was, essentially, a blanket name for four distinctly different bands - they started off as a pop/psychedelic combo similar to very early (ie pre-Piper At The Gates of Dawn) Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, then drifted into the higher echelons of prog with their 1970 masterpiece Third, before becoming a fusion outfit (often dubbed Britain's answer to the Mahavishnu Orchestra) and ending their career as a distinctly British jazz band. Recorded at Nottingham University (in 1975, as the title suggests) very shortly after guitarist Allan Holdsworth left the band (to be replaced by John Etheridge), British Tour captures the Softs... Read review

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Advantages: It's Roxy Music
Disadvantages: None

...”. The song itself has a drum and percussion introduction that gives it a slight rock sound, with the smooth guitar sound and vamping piano, along side the powerhouse bass and synthesizer solo in the middle 8 making it a perfect choice as a single, but still with the warm and full production touches that the whole album has. The title track of this album “Flesh + Blood” has Bryan Ferry playing guitar on it along with keyboards and his crooning vocals along with full sounding bass played by Allan Spenner and drums played by Andy Newmark with percussion fills by Allan Schwartzberg. The song “My Only Love” is a bit of a personal favourite from the later catalogue of the band, this is another love song from the pen of Mr Ferry that all 3 of the original members really shine on. The song has a full sounding string... Read review

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Advantages: Another BR great
Disadvantages: none

...Bad Religion churn out another classic album, this one dating from 1991. Coming after Suffer, Against The Grain, No Control, and How Could Hell Be Any Worse it has a lot to live up to . It shows a slight change ind irection with most songs clocking in at 3-4 minutes rather than the usual 2 min 10 seconds sort of tunes that they had done previously but its still the same quality melodic punk that many love. Features some great tunes such as Atomin Garden and the title track itself. Again, if you like Bad Religiopn you'll like this album !... Read review

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