59. Midnight - "Steel, Rust and Disgust"

OK! This album shouldn’t be here. I usually disregard cover albums but for three essential reasons it has slipped through. Firstly, it is bookended by two new original numbers, so that technically redefines it as an album with mostly covers which could be argued is different. Secondly, it covers unknown cult punk and noise outfits, so to most listeners, it is new tracks. Finally, it is really good. Really, really good. Midnight are the bastard inheritors of Motorhead’s crown. They play rock n’roll, nasty and nihilistic rock n’roll but rock n’roll all the same. This is a fun album; heavy, marauding and obscenely inappropriate but at the end of the day, fun. Short pithy tracks showcase the joy of loud anti-social music. There is a lot of despair on this list. Whilst it is not bottled sunshine, it is just a fabulous exercise in enjoyable repulsive heaviness.