Great albums

Throughout time there have been some quite simply, mind-bogglingly bad covers of albums. We've got the worst for you to enjoy.

For better or worse, my opinion of the work of Jimi Hendrix has always been smothered somewhat by the blanket opinion that he was the greatest guitar player in the history of the fretboard. This is an opinion held by the cool police, nostalgia freaks, my dad, and the music press. It is expected that ...

Here's a chronological look back at the 100 best rock albums of the '70s.

Radiohead - The Bends

We’ve covered plenty of bad album covers here on Flashbak; but today we’re focusing on the awkward

The Rolling Stones “Some Girls” (1978) Cover designed by Peter Corriston. A die-cut cover of ladies wig ads with the faces of the band alongside those of Lucille Ball, Farah Fawcett, Judy Garland, Raquel Welch and Marilyn Monroe peeking through from the inner sleeve. Soon after it’s release the cover was withdrawn due to legal threats from many of the celebrities or their estates. The revised cover removed all the celebrities whether they had complained or not, and they were…

For the record, I miss classic vinyl. And not just the sound. There's something great about holding that album cover in your hand. Reading the liner notes.

For all of its stylistic reference points—floods of effects pedals, venue-emptying feedback sections, indecipherable vocal melodie—shoegaze has always been a difficult genre to pin down. The term itself was supposedly coined by British music journalists in reference to the myriad of bands (the likes of A.R. Kane and My Bloody Valentine) who made little eye-contact with the crowd, instead being transfixed by their sea of wah-wah and distortion pedals; From the earlier outings of M83 to…

Doing an ollie with your brand new Chucks on, wearing your power beads for good luck.