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The Everly Brothers: Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 6 March 1976

IN A QUIET sort of way, 1975 saw an Everly Brothers revival of sorts. Warner Brothers released their magnificent Walk Right Back With The Everlys, ...

Generation X: Generation X

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1978

FROM THE VERY start of their recording career, it was obvious that Generation X had some rather unparochial ideas about their role as a punk ...

Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (Columbia)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Stage Life, February 1978

LIKE IT OR NOT, you’d better watch out 'cause talent will out, which is exactly why you’re hearing so much about Elvis Costello these days. ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Kaleidoscope (Polydor)

Review by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 26 July 1980

STRANGE TO think that, as the Banshees' contemporaries head off for the fourth or even fifth time in the studio, Kaleidoscope marks only the third ...

Advertising: Jingles

Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 24 June 1978

FEELING RUTHLESS, you could divide the entire spectrum of pop and rock'n'roll into two. ...

Elvis Presley: From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential '60s Masters 1

Review by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 1 October 1993

IT'S EASY TO DISMISS ELVIS PRESLEY'S post-army career – easy, that is, until one is forced to sit down and listen to a song like ...

The Braxtons' Right Risks: So Many Ways

Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1996

THE STORY goes that The Braxtons originally were a quartet. Producers L.A. and Babyface pulled Toni Braxton out of the bunch, because, at the time, ...

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

Review by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 20 June 2004

RECORDED in New York over two days in 1968, Astral Weeks still sounds like nothing before or since. Unlike other classic albums, Pet Sounds, say, ...

Yes: Relayer and Yesterdays

Review by Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 19 June 1975

WITH THEIR LAST five albums (including Relayer) reaching Top Five status, Yes are central to the new British Invasion. ...

Laurie Anderson: Big Science

Review by Chris Bohn, NME, 24 April 1982

AS A PERFORMER, Laurie Anderson is little short of phenomenal: a slight Chaplinesque figure, she's as much vaudeville as she is artist, in that she's ...

Lady Gaga: Born This Way (Polydor) ***

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 May 2011

FIRST THINGS FIRST: that cover is simply awful, its adolescent heavy-metal imagery — "ride me, wild one!" — effectively destroying in a single stroke Lady ...

David Gilmour: On An Island

Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 3 March 2006

OUT IN CYBERSPACE reunion rumours swirl with niggling persistence, but David Gilmour's perpetual half-smile masks an unyielding nature. Asked about a putative Pink Floyd re-formation ...

Beatles, The: The Beatles: The Beatles (The White Album)

Review by Alan Smith, NME, 30 November 1968

BEATLES CHART HISTORY BY GETTING DOUBLE LP IN. ...

Plan B: Who Needs Actions When You Got Words


Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 16 June 2006

AS EUREKA moments go, Ben Drew's was so obvious it seems perverse that he didn't think of it before. ...

Laurie Anderson: Big Science (Warner Bros.)

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, July 1982

THIS IS THE avant-garde art music album for folks who generally hate the stuff. Anderson captures the rarely realized potential of modern art music and ...

Wet Willie: Keep On Smilin'

Review by Jim Esposito, Creem, September 1974

THE ONLY THING missing from Keep On Smilin' is one of Capricorn's "Support Southern Music" buttons on the jacket of that blind old black beggar ...

Beach Boys, The, Tim Buckley, Brian Wilson: Various Artists: Sing A Song For You (Tribute To Tim Buckley) and Caroline Now! (The Songs Of Brian Wilson And The Beach Boys)

Review by Ian Penman, The Wire, September 2000

IS THERE any point in anyone trying to recast the lassitudinous spacesail of Tim Buckley? As a singer, Buckley belongs to the Eternal(s), so aren't ...

Jesus & Mary Chain, The: The Jesus & Mary Chain: Psychocandy (Blanco Y Negro BYN7 pre-release tape)*****

Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 2 November 1985

CHRIST! THE crucifixion of preconceptions on the Calvary of pop. ...

KRS-One, Boogie Down Productions: KRS-1, Boogie Down Productions: By All Means Necessary (Jive US Import)

Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 30 April 1988

LOVE AND BULLETS ...

Isaac Hayes: Various Artists: Music From The Wattstax Festival & Film

Review by James Maycock, MOJO, November 2003

ON 20TH AUGUST, 1972, Isaac Hayes was celebrating his 30th birthday. But Ike wasn't chilling at his gilded Memphis mansion ripping into a skyscraper pile ...