MUSIC
The Greatest Rock/Pop Albums You’ve Never Heard Of
Classic albums that should have become classics but didn’t. In my opinion anyway
Everyone has their favourite pop/rock albums. Often they include the standards we all know and love— Sgt Peppers, Exile on Main Street, Born To Run, Rumours, Pet Sounds, Bat Out of Hell etc. etc. Sometimes, though, you fall in love with an album that doesn’t quite make it in the charts and you have no clue why it never joined the standards.
These are my non-classic classic rock/pop albums of all time.
Down By The Jetty — Dr. Feelgood
Canvey is a reclaimed island in the Thames Estuary, around 30 miles east of London. It’s at sea level and therefore surrounded by a 20ft high concrete barrier to keep the sea out. It hosts some of the UK’s major oil and gas refineries.
Along the industrialised north and south banks of the River Thames, from East London to Canvey Island and the North Sea, the ’60s and ’70 saw the pubs and clubs rocking with the sound of English pub-rock — based on US R&B but with a much harder grittier edge. The first out of the blocks were the Rolling Stones but more followed. In 1975 the debut album of a Canvey pub-rock band hit the record stores.
