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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. ...

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

Review by Max Bell, NME, 26 July 1975

TOYS IN THE Attic, is Aerosmith's third record. No one here knows that much about Aerosmith, except that they're a straight-ahead Eastern seaboard band with ...

Ratt: Ratt (Time Coast/Atlantic)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1985

RATT BETWEEN THE LIPS ...

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 ...

Deep Purple: Made in Europe

Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 28 February 1977

LET'S SEE, as of now I have written two features on Deep Purple, plus, uh, I reviewed In Rock, Machine Head, and Who Do We ...

Starz: Starz

Review by Max Bell, NME, 15 January 1977

PREDICTABLE BOYS from the Rock Steady stable with Jack Douglas production. ...

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 ...

Ted Nugent: Free-For-All (Epic)

Review by Robert Duncan, Creem, December 1976

ON BEING A MAN ...

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

Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 11 July 1987

FELINE GROOVY ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starz: Coliseum Rock

Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 13 January 1979

THANKFULLY, AFTER their last atrocious album Attention Shoppers (ugh! That's worse than Olias Of Sunhillow for an LP title), this fourth Starz disc finds the ...

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 ...

Black Sabbath: The Complete '70s Replica CD Collection 1970-78

Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001

THE MYSTERY OF THE RIFF – so crucial to rock, so oddly neglected by critics. ...

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: Stiff Upper Lip (EMI)


Review by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 3 March 2000

AC/DC MAY OR may not currently be writing the best lyrics in rock. It's hard to tell, since they don't print them on their album ...

Kiss: Rock and Roll Over

Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 14 February 1977

LIKE MANY OTHER citizens of Lower Manhattan, I feel guilty. The reason I feel guilty is, however, not the same as the other 2,833,756 culpable ...

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 ...