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Captain Beefheart: The Spotlight Kid (Reprise 2050)

Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, May 1972

POTENTIOMETERS pop (the odor of electricity) behind the silvery mugs of android dervishes. A gasket goes. The old Aristotelean construct programs splatter into a mess ...

Gene Vincent: Primitive Texas Rockabilly & Honky Tonk: Gene Vincent Cut Our Songs

Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004

Not quite the Crossroads Robert Johnson had in mind… ...

Hüsker Dü: Candy Apple Grey

Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, March 1986

CANDY APPLE GREY is Hüsker Dü's fourth consecutive classic and their first album for a major label. Since 1982, this image-free Milwaukee [sic] trio of ...

James Talley: Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love

Review by John Morthland, No Depression, 28 February 2006

FIRST RELEASED in 1975, at a time when the Outlaw movement was opening Nashville up to all manner of previously unimaginable sounds, James Talley's debut ...

New Edition: Candy Girl (London/Streetwise SH8553)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 20 August 1983

EDITIONS OF YOU ...

Fela Kuti: Army Arrangement (Celluloid)

Review by Carol Cooper, Spin, May 1985

IF YOU haven't yet heard of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, it isn't because he hasn't been trying to get your attention. ...

Wooden Shjips: V

Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 3 December 2018

THIS TIME LAST YEAR, Wooden Shjips were working on a "summer record", but external events impinged on the creative process. There was America's climate of ...

Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross: Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986-1996 (A&M)/Luther Vandross: Greatest Hits 1981-1995 (Epic)

Review by Richard Cook, MOJO, December 1995

Hit compilations from ‘80s-into-’90s soul megastars. ...

Foreigner: 4

Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, October 1981

This is what? These guys’ second or third LP since Mick Jones publicly declared F’gner ain’t dinosaurs and that they were really starting to get, ...

Andrew Ridgeley: Son of Albert (Columbia)

Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, September 1990

IN WHAM!, Andrew Ridgeley did whatever it is Chris Lowe does in the Pet Shop Boys. You can't call it "looking pretty for group pictures," ...

Coolio: Gangsta's Paradise (Tommy Boy 1141)

Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 21 November 1995

THE PHENOMENAL success of the single 'Gangsta's Paradise', taken from the Dangerous Minds soundtrack has hastened this, the album of the same name. It's Coolio's all important ...

Michael (Mikey) Smith: Michael Smith: Mi Cyaan Believe It (Island)

Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 13 November 1982

Keep on believing ...

David Bowie: Sound + Vision

Review by Deborah Frost, Newsday, 1 November 1989

Golden Years ...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus

Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 2005

"THE WORK," Cave told MOJO, "of a genius." Though his tongue was presumably not too many miles from his cheek, he was spot on. This ...

Chrome: Half Machine From The Sun (King of Spades)

Review by Frances Morgan, The Wire, January 2014

CHROME's Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves were released in 1978 and 1979, which makes them contemporaries of Mad Max, Philip K Dick's VALIS, ...

Run DMC: King Of Rock (Profile)

Review by Fred Goodman, Musician, April 1985

A REPORTER once jokingly asked Muhammad Ali if his retirement would spell the end of boxing. Instead of turning the question into grist for his ...

Fela Kuti: Live in Detroit 1986

Review by Stevie Chick, bbc.co.uk, 14 May 2012

Rediscovered concert recording from the king of afrobeat. ...

Scouting for Girls: The Light Between Us

Review by John Aizlewood, bbc.co.uk, 3 September 2012

No edge, no side, just pop music in excelsis – and that's more than enough. ...

Quincy Jones: The Dude

Review by Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2009

RELEASED IN 1981, The Dude was the right album at the right time. ...

Tyler, The Creator: Goblin

Review by Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 26 May 2011

FORGET THE controversy. No, wait, we can't. The controversy is a breath of fresh air. If you listen to the album you might be confused ...


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