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Talking Heads: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads

Review by Van Gosse, Village Voice, 8 June 1982

TALKING HEADS: TV shorthand, video argot for the small-screen dance. The words themselves give up little ghosts, conceptual bombs – media as alienation, the medium ...

Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road (1965-1973) (Rhino/Warner Bros) *****

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002

THE GRATEFUL DEAD are probably the most puzzling enigma in rock history. ...

The Jackson 5: Greatest Hits

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972

MOTOWN HAS ALWAYS been known for its little ones more than its big ones, and the Jackson Five are no exception. This is undoubtedly their ...

The Viceroys: We Must Unite (Trojan)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 20 March 1982

THE CULT phenomenon, as with other realms of popular music, is also almost predominantly featured in the world of reggae. The Viceroys, a mysterious trio ...

Bram Tchaikovsky: The Russians Are Coming (Radar)

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 17 May 1980

SOMETIMES YOU open your mouth, but not a word emerges. Sometimes there's very little to talk about anyway. ...

Duran Duran: Arena (Parlophone)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 17 November 1984

AND THE APHIDS CRIED/THROUGH THE DRIFTING HAZE/"NAFF LP, LADS!" ...

Johnny Guitar Watson: Ain't That A Bitch

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 24 July 1976

JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON is one of the classiest musicians around, though you might not believe it from the packaging of his latest album. On which ...

Men at Work: Cargo (Columbia)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1983

SURE, I LIKE Men At Work too. Doesn't everybody? They seem able to please all the people all the time, even though that's not their ...

Daft Punk: Ready, Study, Go!: Daft Punk: Homework (Virgin)

Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 18 January 1997

AS A RULE, the better a country's cuisine, the worse its pop music. Hence the illustrious rock'n'roll lineage of Great Britain, land of lardy stodge ...

Coati Mundi: The Former 12 Year Old Genius (Virgin)

Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 7 May 1983

MUNDI BLOODY MUNDI ...

Nada Surf: The Proximity Effect

Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 28 August 2000

SO, I'M STRANDED on a desert island. No, worse: I'm stranded in nothing town in AnyState, where a McDonald's, a WalMart, and a tired bar ...

Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing (ATPR)

Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 20 March 2008

NOISE, LIKE anything else, needs practise, needs talent and needs inspiration. As odd as it sounds, bands like Wolf Eyes didn't get where they are ...

George Michael: Twentyfive (Sony/BMG)

Review by Paul Elliott, Q, December 2006

THIS WAS SUPPOSED to be part of George Michael's big comeback: a greatest hits album to follow a sell-out European tour. And, fleetingly, it was ...

Nas: Written Out — Nas: It Was Written (Columbia 14tks/59mins)

Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 13 July 1996

NAS is one of rap's supreme lyricists and vocal stylists. A pity, then, that his new album isn't worthy of his talents ...

Japan: Quiet Life (Ariola AHAL 8010)****

Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 12 January 1980

Glitter for industry ...

Metallica: Load (Elektra)

Review by Mac Randall, Musician, August 1996

Monsters of Pop ...

Rush: Hemispheres (Mercury)

Review by Joe Nick Patoski, Creem, February 1979

Ride, Mush You Rushkies ...

Derrick May & Associates: Relics (Transmat/Buzz)

Review by Push, Melody Maker, 16 May 1992

MAY'S DAZE ...

Vines, The: The Vines: Highly Evolved

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003

WELCOME to the twenty-first century alt. rock review. The Vines, as you know, are from Australia, and, as you also know, are the greatest band the ...

Elvis Presley: From Elvis in Memphis (RCA LSP-4155)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 1969

Voice Saves Elvis in Memphis ...