Noise International WK45499. 1990 Back in my tape trading days (yes kids, it wasn't all mp3 and download ratios back then - padded enve...

Island IMCD 170/518 450-2. 1993 It's like a whole different album to Rid Of Me, though it's mostly the same songs. These raw takes s...

Island CID8002/514 696-2. 1993 Even better than the last. PJH and Albini are a studio match made in heaven.

Too Pure CD010. 1992 I wish I was feeling a tad more verbose today, as this is outstandingly super. However, I'm not, so may come back t...

Charisma CASCD1037. 1971 Another NF introduction - cheers buddy. He sounds a bit posh, but has a pleasant voice none the less. I heard this ...

Arena ARE00012-2. 1999 All the best bits from good-era Flaming Lips, less-angular aspects of Pavement, a smattering of Mercury Rev pomp, and...

Creation CRESCD276. 1997 Starts with a ghastly mix by Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne that we can just forget about, thank you very much....

Mego 014. 1998 There's not enough going on here to comment, as I don't want to crank up the amp and potentially damage the speakers ...

Columbia CB741. 1975 (1992) That's just too much funk for one album. Starts off at a blistering pace with the crazy Hang Up Your Hangups...

Columbia CB741. 1983 Yet this does nothing for me. 80's twaddle. I don't even like Rockit . Sorry.

Columbia/Legacy CD6512. 1973 (1997) That shit is the funk, right there. Though the jazz-improv-freakout gets a bit much towards the end of t...

Hallmark 701272. 2002 Plenty of oldey-timey music on here, most of which is very canny, but it's the classics that stand out. I could li...

XLS43CD. 1993 Tip top hippity hop.

Telstar Records MC5055CD. 2002 I'm currently enjoying a renewed enthusiasm for garagey rock type stuff, so this is timely. And rawkously...

Charrm CD18. 1994 Though the restraint issue had been addressed by now, this still shifts dramatically from light to dark, cheery to broodin...

DOVe CD222/39100252. 1992 Careful now, that's a friend of mine. Watch your mouth babe, you're outta line. When I first forced my pre...

Go! Discs 828 631-2. 1995 To insistant to be background music, too dull to be listened to in its own right. Let's keep the film soundtra...

Go! Beat 539 100-2. 1997 Nicely crafted funky shit. Still, when I put on some music I want to hear music, not a minute, possibly two, of som...

13Amp AMP001CD. 2002 There's a reason most of the tracks on here are 'obscure'. They're 90% shite.

Go Beat 543 713-2. 2000 I'm just not in the mood; this is getting on my nerves. Bobby Gillespie's tuneless warbling contributions ar...

Go Beat GOLCD6. 1997 Entirely reasonable track, with those damn pointless remixes. And we all know what I think of pointless remixes.

Warner Bros 7599-25385-2. 1986 Still shouty in places, which is nice. Suffers from that damn Mould/Hart 'we know best' production an...

SST CD027. 1984 Much better. They were still in hardcore mode when they recorded this, though it branches out into previously unexplored ski...

Warner Bros 25544-2. 1987 Maybe they should have got a producer in. This is weak and, at times, annoying. The guitar sits on its own over th...

Virgin CDV2160. 1988 (1980) What a treat. One of the defining moments in pop-electronic history, and one which brings back many happy memori...

Music Club MCCD020. 1991 Now I'm really sick. Not really his fault, but why have I got three 'best of's?

Tring GRF023. And 28 tracks on top of the previous 16, a lot of them the same, is just stupid.

Route 16 CD9004. 1988 I mean, it's alright and all, but it gets a bit samey. Ok in small doses.

Polydor 537 688-2. 1998 [ choked silence ] Recovered. One of my favourite albums, from one of my favourite artists. Seven years after Talk T...

Creation crescd116. 1993 See below, only shorter.

Creation crecd163. 1993 Unremarkable, but inoffensive, guitary pop-rock from some American chaps that didn't last very long and spent to...

EMI CDEM210. 1991. No record of this on allmusic or discogs. Does what it says on the tin really, it's early Rolf.. Includes Two Little ...

Man's Ruin MR097. 1998 Just goes to show you should take everything written at allmusic.com with a pinch of cynicism. Ed Rivadavia says ...

1995. Headhunter UK huk001cd. The best psychedelic garage in the world. Simple as.

World Domination Recordings WDM10095-2. 1998 Not nearly as good as I remember. Starts off a cross between Jimi Tenor and Barry Adamson, goes...

Sweet Nothing SNCD011. 2002 Relentless psychedelic sonic onslaught from Bristol's finest underrated acid freaks. Heavy as a bad trip, sw...

Loose VJCD105. 1998 They're still midway between the country sound of later work and the backwoods alt-twang of the earlier stuff. This ...

Carrot Top SAKI011. 1996 See below. Earlier, not as country, but still tiptop. "Sometimes I can't wait to come down with cancer, at...

Loose VJCD112. 2000 There's nothing at all wrong with this. A brilliant slice of what would appear, on a casual listen, to be fairly str...

The Grey Area KUT6. 1994 More of the good stuff. I'm kind of glad this is the last THT disk on the shelf though. Some music would be ni...

Touch TO:22. 1993 Might have been a bit more interesting to have been at the performance this was recorded at - 2 actors, 6 cookers, 6 baths...

The Grey Area KUT5. 1994 At the more interesting end of THT spectrum. A reissue of 1986's The Sea Org and Brain Song eps. Familiar terr...

Staalplaat STCD068. 1994 Utterly pointless.

Soleilmoon SOL14CD. 1998 More dark (even though the first half of it is clearly made with those whirly tube doofers) drone delight. Second h...

Touch TONE1CD. 1991 The soundtrack to the Annie Sprinkle performance. Eerie, and anything but erotic.

Soleilmoon KUT4. 1995 First track is a lengthy (48min) edit of lectures given in the Netherlands in the 80s, on the theories and writings of...

Staalplaat SPCD031. 1991 I've always had a lot of time for the work of Andrew McKenzie, though I'd stop short of the hero worship an...

Calcium Chloride CaCl003CD. 2000 My favourite band of all time was Talk Talk. Oh, what a sad day it was when they eventually split. They cou...

Mute CDSTUMM102. 1992 All the greatness of the original tracks, shoved through a mangle and given a bit of a squeeze. I wouldn't say any...

Mute CDSTUMM60. 1991 Coming on like the bastard offspring of The Art of Noise and Coldcut. Twisted, but funny rather than bitter. Lots of in...