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Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 12 June 1980

DEPARTURE OFFERS ample proof that the Seventies hard-rock genre so many people have been trying to bury for the last few years just doesn't want ...

Grace Slick: Welcome To The Wrecking Ball (Grunt)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1981

THIS ISSUE will be hitting the stands a week or two after Valentine's Day, so I won't be too remiss in telling Grace Slick that ...

Graham Parker: Another Grey Area

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 13 March 1982

OH, DEAR. Talk about unfortunate titles... ...

Cockney Rejects: The Wild Ones (NEMS pre-release)****

Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 19 June 1982

Flairs and riffers ...

Van Halen: Diver Down (Warner Bros.)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, August 1982

NOT ONLY IS this album an insult to the average consumer who will have to pay upwards of ten dollars for it, it is an ...

M, Mötley Crüe: Mötley Crüe: Shout At The Devil (Elektra)

Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 6 October 1983

"THOSE WHO have the youth have the future". Unknowingly, unwittingly even, Mötley Crüe have succinctly summarised the task that lies ahead of them in their ...

Ratt: Ratt (Time Coast/Atlantic)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1985

RATT BETWEEN THE LIPS ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The: The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley (EMI America/Enigma)

Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1985

AFTER NEARLY two decades of racial division, popular music is in the midst of an overdue and exciting (if modest) effort to integrate itself. One ...

Mantronix: Mantronix: The Album (10)

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986

NOISE NEVER never never annoys you know. Mantronix go for the paintstripper approach, burning away electro's lesser indulgences and leaving hard core hip hop of ...

Run DMC: Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1986

RUNNING ON FULL ...

RUN DMC: Raising Hell (Profile/London)

Review by Biba Kopf, NME, 19 July 1986

A SEOUL diversion — RUN DMC coming up, fast food and sweet music ready to go. ...

Run DMC: Raising Hell (London)

Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 19 July 1986

BOYS FROM THE COUNTY HELL ...

Run-DMC: Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, November 1986

IF YOU think that rap is just some metrical motor-mouth rhymin' about how great he is in every way, with minimal but apocalyptically loud, reverb ...

Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat (Elektra K96 07301) ****

Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 11 July 1987

FELINE GROOVY ...

The Replacements: Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me

Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, August 1987

LIKE SOME STRAY dog you find in an alley, Minneapolis's Replacements are a scruffy mongrel of a band: uncontrollable and ugly, but somehow irresistable. You ...

Faster Pussycat, Guns N' Roses: Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen) **; Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat (Elektra) **

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1987

WHAM, GLAM, NO THANK YOU, MA'AM ...

Aerosmith: Permanent Vacation (Geffen)

Review by Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 22 October 1987

ALTHOUGH AEROSMITH was slagged for nearly two decades as sloppy Stones seconds, the band was finally given hip vindication last year by Run-D.M.C. And what ...

Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard: Def Leppard: Hysteria (Polygram); Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen)

Review by Deborah Frost, Creem, December 1987

WAS IT REALLY worth the wait? Four years and nearly two million dollars later, Def Leppard has finally unveiled their new "masterpiece." What Hysteria's constipated ...

AC/DC: Blow Up Your Video (Atlantic)

Review by Amy Linden, Spin, June 1988

FOR THOSE of you who haven't been paying much attention, let me let you in on a little secret: It's okay to like Heavy Metal ...

The Clash: Clash: The Clash; Give 'Em Enough Rope; London Calling; Sandinista!; Combat Rock; Cut The Crap

Review by Mat Snow, Q, June 1989

UNLIKE THE Sex Pistols, the other great London punk-rock group had ambitions beyond delivering the short, sharp shock to the system suggested by the sudden ...