Steve Swift’s Rambling Reviews

Is Ozzy’s ’new’ track Too Comfortable?

Is this simply not Rock enough? Is this just too comfortable? It's a reworking of a track with Billy Morrison and, despite a big Steve Stevens solo, it just has too much syrup and not enough Bite. Reminiscent of ELO, it settles into a comfy chair and I don't want that...

Spiders Bite! A Punky Rock Album With New Wave And 50’s Love...

Spiders give us the 50's Rockabilly Punk Tip, A Bit Sex Pistols And Of Course A Bit Blondie. it's disposable, but should it be any other way?

Is Kim Wilde’s New Pop Album What Kylie Should Be Doing?

There's fun in this album and you can't fake that, just companion to 1988's 'Close' is full of sheeny dance floor Pop, 80's chart Rock and an attempt at Art Pop. But this is too friendly to do austere; Kylie could do with a bit of this jollity...

Crazy Lixx Enjoy A Bite Of Hair Metal!

They've been at this for 20 years and I've never listened to too much, not that I'm not a fan, but there are a lot of bands doing this. Checking out 'Thrill Of The Bite', this might be one one of the Hair Metal best examples. Harder than I expected, also better than I expected...

Steel Machine Album Is A Metal Maven!

There isn't music here but Heavy Metal, but if you like that, this is as tough as a well seasoned leather jacket and as nasty as a studded wristband. Yes, there are Metal tropes here, but when they're done with such conviction, they sound great...

Demand Lucha Wrestling Wins Again!

With Lince Dorado versus Sidney Akeem, the former WWE Reggie, that's bound to be good. and it is, Wrestling entertainment done, Great moves landed, a title at stake, just brilliantly done...

I Haven’t Seen Coastal Championship Wrestling For A While! And It Still Fabulous...

Marvellous Wrestling, Great Characters And 2 very fine matches here, Aleah James and Kristin Blaze give us a very fine Wrestling entertainment offer and Gangrel shows how much the CCW crowd love him...

Are Talking Heads Your Bag? Then This Book Is For You!

Like A Lot Of SonicBond 'Every Album, Every Song' Books, This Can Seem A Little Conveyor Belt, But These Songs Are So Well Constructed, The Detail Works and that Band Story, Well, It's A Doozie...

I’d Never Heard NWOBHM Excellence Starfighters!

I didn't even know of them in the NWOBHM era, and I was there, folks. I was alerted to them by a Facebook NWOBHM group and they sound fabulous. They're more chart Aspiration than some, but NWOBHM was always a pretty open musical movement...

Hammer Horror Film ’Twins Of Evil’! A triumph or a missed opportunity?

2nd of the 3 Karnstein vampire movies, this one boasts a great Peter Cushing performance, Hammer castle and village settings and a sexy something. But did it work?