Music Goes On - Reviews

I built and ran this website between 2000 and 2001, combining passion for popular music and programming. It was listed by MTV's now defunct MusicNewswire as one of the then nascent web's top twenty sources, alongside Billboard and VH1. The most exciting part of it — for a 13/14-year-old excited by new music — was receiving scores of pre-release CDs from record companies. The entire project was written entirely from scratch (frameworks and libraries were not the norm back then!) in PHP linking to a MySQL database, with HTML as well as a little CSS and JavaScript for the frontend; the code is available here.

Girish Gupta

Albums

Singles

Reviews - Albums

Rod Stewart - The Story So Far
10 November 2002 | 11:16:40 GMT/UTC
The very best of Rod Stewart.

Madonna - Greatest Hits Volume Two
11 November 2001 | 13:30:00 GMT/UTC
This follows Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection'; it features hits from 1992 to 2001.

Michael Jackson - Invincible
3 November 2001 | 19:41:41 GMT/UTC
What were you expecting?

Andrew WK - I Get Wet
3 November 2001 | 14:00:00 GMT/UTC
Guitars, guitars, guitars. Brilliant.

Ben Christophers - Spoonface
26 October 2001 | 10:00:00 GMT/UTC
Second album from the singer/songwriter.

Kelis - Wanderland
25 October 2001 | 10:00:00 GMT/UTC
Two years after "I hate you so much right now," the big-haired one returns.

Crackout - This Is Really Neat
25 October 2001 | 9:00:00 GMT/UTC
Promising debut from the rock threesome.

Elton John - Songs From The West Coast
6 October 2001 | 13:17:54 GMT/UTC

Victoria Beckham - Victoria Beckham
29 September 2001 | 16:27:06 GMT/UTC

Boy George - BoyGeorgeDj.com
4 September 2001 | 11:30:26 GMT/UTC

Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
3 September 2001 | 20:15:39 GMT/UTC

Embrace - If You've Never Been
2 September 2001 | 21:26:47 GMT/UTC

Strokes - Is This It?
23 August 2001 | 16:03:00 GMT/UTC

Magoo - Realist Week
11 August 2001 | 18:57:00 GMT/UTC

Catatonia - Paper, Scissors, Stone
10 August 2001 | 20:04:00 GMT/UTC

Human League - Secrets
4 August 2001 | 16:56:00 GMT/UTC

Feeder - Swim
24 July 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

David Bowie - All Saints
9 July 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Hut Recordings 1991 - 2001
7 July 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Proud Mary - The Same Old Blues
1 July 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Basement Jaxx - Rooty
17 June 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

The Smiths - The Very Best Of...
16 June 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

EMF - The Best Of...
16 June 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Travis - The Invisible Band
9 June 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Radiohead - Amnesiac
2 June 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Sunset Ibiza
1 June 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Darkflower - Feed My Soul
30 May 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

REM - Reveal
15 May 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform
10 April 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Gorillaz - Gorillaz
30 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
29 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Terris - Learning To Let Go
16 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Add N To (X) - The Poker Roll
14 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Sampled Part 2
12 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Kiss Smooth Grooves 2001
2 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
2 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

2nd Gen - Irony Is
20 February 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

The Offspring - Conspiracy of One
25 November 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Spice Girls - Forever
11 November 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Oasis - Familiar To Millions
28 October 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

David Mancuso Presents The Loft Vol 2
10 October 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Add N To (X) - Add Insult To Injury
8 October 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Radiohead - Kid A
26 September 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Maximum Joy
8 September 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Lee Griffiths - Northern Songs
31 December 1969 | 18:59:59 GMT/UTC