This is Gad-Fly

Is Hip Hop losing its sting?

Hip Hop, historically, has been a draw to impressionable youth because of its anarchical and anti-establishment nature. It was a way for teenagers from all economic and social classes to rebel against authority, whether that be racial and religious intolerance within the lower classes, to rebellion towards ones parents or teachers within the middle or upper classes. Hip Hop has managed to unite all youth under one flag.

However, in this new decade, Hip Hop is losing out to other More

Sad They’re Gone: The Pixies

Sadly, I was born a few years too late to see The Pixies play live the first time around; while Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, Charles Thompson and David Lovering were out there blowing minds with their progressive, mind-bendingly strange rock songs, I thought Chesney Hawkes was actually pretty damn cool. It wasn’t until The Pixies and Nirvana had been replaced by Radiohead and Muse—not really an equal replacement by any means, it has to be said—that I owned all More

Best Music Vids - Faithless.

Let’s face it; Maxi Jazz is a pretty cool guy to begin with. He’s handsome, extremely photogenic and has a great voice for singing or for speaking. But how many people could still have managed to look so cool in this music video? Sitting on a sofa with a red snuggle-blanket round you is not a traditional way of bumping up your street cred. However, Maxi carries it off brilliantly. If you watch this enough then you will learn the More

The Big Success of ‘Big Calm’.

Morcheeba’s first studio album was the Trippy sounding, ‘Who Can You Trust’ in 1996. It did not fair particularly well in the charts but it certainly brought them a much larger following. Several of the tracks got quite a bit of airplay and Skye Edwards was noted by critics for her dreamy voice. However, their finest moment came in 1997 when they followed up their debut with ‘Big Calm’.

This time Morcheeba went into the studio with far more experience. More

A Street Legal Named Desire.

I can remember the very first time that I heard ‘Desire’ by Bob Dylan. I had been going through a period of looking into his music and I was becoming very familiar with his classic songs like; ‘Don’t Think Twice’, ‘The Mighty Quinn’, ‘I Shall Be Released’ and ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’. However, nothing had prepared me for what I was about to hear… Dylan had always been famed for his protest songs but this album tackled them from a More

Classic Albums - Songs of Love And Hate.

Leonard Cohen has written some cracking songs over the forty-three years that he has been in the music business. There are probably at least three of his albums that could be described as ‘classics’ but, for me, his greatest work has to be; ‘Songs of Love and Hate’.

A lot of people think of Cohen’s music as being depressing and I suppose that some of it is. Unfortunately, I have probably chosen the gloomiest album from his whole career… Saying More

My Inspiration

I have to say that the inspiration for this blog was a car boot sale. I was looking at all the albums for sale and was really dissapointed to find that all the really great bands were being sold off and not loved like they should have been! So this is my own little alter to honor those unsung (excuse the pun) heroes of indie, rock, and grundge bands that you really miss or have never heard of!