Live At Hammersmith - Nuclear Assault

Advantages: Reflecting distantly to 1977
Disadvantages: inconsistency - experimental edge is now lost

...Nu-clear sounds in the eyes of many was a major melt down, but to me, although it didn't live up to the heights and ambitious ambience of 1977, in a lighter way it reflected through some hazy mirror the emotionally stimulating concepts of 1977. This does mean to say the album is poor. I still listen to it regularly and I feel it has a lot to offer in terms of seamless, complexity that we need from time to time. Ash did release two songs from the album, numbskull also part of an EP and Jesus says. Neither of them kicked, and it was really suprising. I do however love the flowing spirtually enlightening low ebb. The album does however feel slightly too mixed. Unlike 1977, the concept and experimental style seems not to have worked as well second time round. The inclusion of Charlotte may have been capatilised better if Ash had looked to... Read review

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Advantages: A Collection of The Clash's Finest Songs With The Added Aura the Rawness of Being Live Adds
Disadvantages: No White Riot

..., London Calling and Should I Stay... leapt out straight away as the top tracks on the CD but after a couple more listens the jerky, dissatisfied Career Oppurtunities made itself known as did the rebellious and macabre Guns of Brixton. Soon all the tracks are vying for your attention (Though personally I feel Armagideon Time and White Man in Hammersmith Palais are slightly lesser songs than the rest) and you just let the whirlwind of energy that is The Clash live take you through this rebellious, spikey, untamed 63 minutes 48 seconds. The CD's sleeve is also a notch above the rest with record covers, black and white photos of the clash on stage and backstage and comments by people who had seen the Clash live. Personal favourites are 'I am only 18. I have never seen The Clash but I would sell my grandmother to have seen them' and the story... Read review

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Advantages: 80's thrash at it's best
Disadvantages: production

...When Anthrax made this album in the mid to late 1980's, it's easy to forget just how little thrash metal had already been made. We had Slayer, Megadeth, Voivod, Nuclear Assault, and Metallica - and of course Anthrax - though it was still a fairly new genre in music. Anthrax's first album, the lacklustre and totally generic 'FISTFULL OF METAL' offered very little new from the usual American metal of the day. The subsequent album 'SPREADING THE DISEASE' however, with it's line-up change and new vocalist, showed an originality, speed, and indeed humour, in metal songwriting that promised so much, especially for future albums. AMONG THE LIVING, signalled Anthrax's departure from being an underground cult metal band on an independent label, to semi-mainstream metal, newly signed with ISLAND RECORDS. And whilst the slightly... Read review

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