It’s the ultimate kick in the teeth. When it was released Robbie Williams waxed lyrical about how it was his best album yet, so I can just imagine how he felt when he heard that all the unsold copies of Rudebox (and there were a lot of them!) have been shipped to China, and will be used to resurface the roads there.
Feel free to insert your puns about Robbie being a ‘groundbreaking artist’ or ‘paving the way’ for other flop albums.
A source told The Mirror newspaper: “EMI often ships out unwanted CDs to China so they can be recycled.
“It’s the ultimate kick in the teeth for him. He loved this album, but going by all the unsold CDs he was obviously the only one.
“Now there’s no better use for them than to be crushed up and trampled on.”
I bet there are no Beautiful World albums in that shipment to China…….
Panic At The Disco are preparing a major assault on our charts and eardrums with a new single and album release over the next month or so. They’ve announced the title of the new album as Pretty. Odd. which at least describes their hair. Only joking Emo kids!
Pretty. Odd. will be released on 25th March 2008. To whet your appetite, Panic will be releasing the first single from the album, Nine In The Afternoon on January 29.
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My favourite retro rocker, Lenny Kravitz, is coming back in February with a new album entitled It Is Time For A Love Revolution. News like this just makes me want to dig out all the old Kravitz albums, so I can’t wait to hear what he’s come up with.
As per any artist, Lenny is fit to burst with excitement over this latest album: “I love this record and the feel of the record, I felt like a kid playing in my bedroom, and that’s the most important thing you can tap into, that feeling of being free.”
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I hang around the music sections of many news sites, and over the last couple of months I’ve read scores of articles about Radiohead’s In Rainbows album. How they’re changing the face of the music industry, how they’re innovating, how they’re reaching out to their fans. Blah blah blah.
You know what I haven’t read? A decent review.
Two things you should know before we go on:
- I’ve never been a big fan of Radiohead. They arrived at a hair metal point in my life and I’ve successfully avoided their music so far.
- I haven’t sought out any reviews yet either. However, I have read the odd comment about the album on social media sites. They usually claim In Rainbows isn’t a patch on their previous material.
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Despite spawning a number of massive singles, Timbaland’s Shock Value album hasn’t been a critical success. We’ve trawled the web for quality reviews of the album and that many music writers were left cold by the quality of the album.
Should Timbaland stay strictly backstage? Read on and find out.
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After listening to lead single, The Pretender, I decided to find out what the web’s saying about the new Foo Fighters album, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace. So, I’ve trawled the web in the name of rock and brought you guys the best reviews of the new record….
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It’s been a while since we did a review round-up. Today’s round-up looks at one of my favourite albums this year, Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black. In the style of other review roundups, we’ll be looking to blogger’s opinions rather than relying on mainstream reviews. Jump over the picture to get started…
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Alongside Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, Poison were undoubtedly one of the biggest names in hard rock in the late 80’s/early 90’s.
Unbelievably, Poison are still together 21 years after their first album - Look What The Cat Dragged In - was released. Earlier this summer, Poison released their 9th album - Poison’d - featuring their favourite covers from their career. Being a fan of their earlier work, I decided to put together this history of the band told using their albums as milestones.
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One of the most hotly anticipated albums this year was Linkin Park’s latest, Minutes To Midnight. Tipped as a new direction for the band, there’s noticably less rapping from Shinoda. So, naturally, Chester Bennington features more prominently on this album.
Rather than doing a straight review, I’ve trawled the web to bring you some of the best reviews of the new album.
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I was reading over on NME that Macartney’s latest album may not chart well in the top 40 because of his decision to sell Memory Almost Full through Starbucks.
The reason? Although Starbucks have some 533 stores throughout the UK, they’re not registered with the Official Chart Company. Naturally, there’s a good chance that sales through Starbucks might not count towards his chart position.
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