361. Parliament - Mothership Connection

Release Date: 1976
Label: Casablanca

Back in 1975, Cabinet Ministers, Denis Healey, James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Barbara Castle and Peter Shore recorded a P(arliamentary)-Funk album, thumbing their noses up at the Monachry in the process. The result was this album. It is arguably one of the best funk albums around, and it also an album that is clearly intended for the pre nine o'clock watershed as phrases like 'mothersucker' and 'I wanna get funked up' are bandied about.

Rating: 8/10

356. Kiss - Destroyer

Release Date: 1976
Label: Casablanca

Another terrible album from 1976, but not the worst. Kiss tread that fine line between stupid and serious, art and artificial. The album begins badly, improves a little at the end and then collapses with an awful song called 'Beth'. Ballads by heavy-rock artists are usually bad, and if rumours are to be believed, it's a surprise Gene Simmons remembers the girl at all.

Rating: 4/10