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Faster Pussycat: Wake Me Up When It's Over (Elektra EKT64) ****

Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 2 September 1989

FASTER PUSSYCAT have always meant just two things to me. First off, vocalist Taime Downe (sic) was the geezer who figured he'd get the choice ...

Aerosmith: Pump (Geffen 924 254/CD) *****

Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, 16 September 1989

Signed, sealed and delivered ...

Aerosmith: Pump

Review by Robert Sandall, Q, October 1989

NOW ON to their tenth album and with sales of the previous nine topping 25 million in the States, Aerosmith are still just about unknown ...

Aerosmith: Pump

Review by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, November 1989

IF ANY CRITIC ever cut Aerosmith slack during their halcyon days in the ‘70s, I never saw evidence of it. Steven Tyler seemed no more ...

Poison, Warrant, Winger: Poison: Flesh & Blood (Enigma)/Winger: In the Heart of the Young (Atlantic)/Warrant: Cherry Pie (Columbia)

Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 18 September 1990

KIP WINGER is a hunk. And what a perfect hunk he is. With his Harlequin hero name, decepticon logo, and carefully exposed nipple, he's engineered ...

Poison: Flesh & Blood

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1990

THE DOWNFALL of Poison, whose first two albums showcased a carefree marriage of '60s bubblegum to '70s hard rock, can be traced to the day ...

Cinderella: Heartbreak Station

Review by Neil Perry, Select, January 1991

A LOT of people have probably been put off by the name, expecting a super-tacky hairspray 'n' lip-gloss LA glam outfit, but Cinderella are among ...

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I (Geffen)

Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991

THERE'S TWO schools of thought about Guns N'Roses. For some they're "the most dangerous band in the world"; for others, their brand of "danger" is ...

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion 1; Use Your Illusion 2 (Geffen)

Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, November 1991

THE BAND'S ex-manager Alan Niven described Use Your Illusion I and II as "Pink Floyd's The Wall meets Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti." Niven was on ...

Aerosmith: Tigers of Wang Twang: Aerosmith: Pandora's Box (Columbia)

Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, February 1992

"THERE ARE JUST a very few bands that wang my twang like Aerosmith," conceded the deer-stalkin' wild man of rock, Ted Nugent, in one of ...

Aerosmith: Pandora's Box

Review by Mat Snow, Q, March 1992

THE RISE AND fall and rise of Aerosmith has been rock's most up-beat cautionary tale of the last few years. ...

Poison: Native Tongue (Capitol) **½

Review by Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 18 March 1993

"OH, NO, NO," moans Bret Michaels during the final, crashing chords of the newly reconstituted Poison's attempt to reestablish its lacquered toehold on the bubble-metal ...

Aerosmith: Get A Grip

Review by Max Bell, Vox, May 1993

THE 'SMITH'S CONTINUED RENAISSANCE is so perfectly realised on Get A Grip you start to wonder what preservatives they put in their drugs. Giving up ...

Robert Plant: Fate Of Nations

Review by Max Bell, Vox, June 1993

FATE OF NATIONS is Robert Plant's seventh solo album. Must be some mystic significance there for you Zen and Manic Nirvana freaks. Robert too, judging ...

Primal Scream: Give Out But Don't Give Up

Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, May 1994

YOU DON'T necessarily need the flash and appeal of the New York Dolls or Aerosmith in order to try to be the Rolling Stones and ...

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers: L.A.M.F.

Review by Nina Antonia, MOJO, July 1994

THIS IS NOT PUNK: THIS IS EDDIE COCHRAN and Gene Vincent dragged screaming into 1977. ...

Bon Jovi: These Days (Mercury 5282482)

Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1995

RETURNING FROM their minor flirtation with funky modernity and relatively short hair on Keep The Faith, Jon and the boys swing back into classic Jovi ...

Garth Brooks: Fresh Horses (Capitol)

Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, February 1996

LISTENING TO Walk a Mile in My Shoes, RCA's recent boxed set of 70s-era Elvis Presley, I caught an echo of Garth Brooks. For years ...

Hanson: Middle Of Nowhere (Mercury) ***

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 26 June 1997

'MMMBOP', the debut hit by kiddie trio Hanson that's now warming up Top 40 charts and fourth-grade hearts, sticks in your brain like Trident in ...

Lenny Kravitz: Flower Of Power: Lenny Kravitz's 5

Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, June 1998

'ROUND MIDNIGHT on December 20, 1989, at The World in downtown Manhattan's Alphabet City, Terence Trent D'Arby trooped back onstage to perform an obligatory encore ...


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