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Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy Pop: Raw Power

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 10 May 1973

THE IG. Nobody does it better, nobody does it worse, nobody does it, period. Others tiptoe around the edges, make little running starts and half-hearted ...

RockFile: Where The Writing Ends, The Memory Game Begins

Review by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, February 1973

ROCK FILE is one of the current crop of books on music which has moved away from the more historical analysis, and deals with the ...

Eric Clapton: There's One In Every Crowd

Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1975

IT NEVER CEASES to amaze me – the sycophantic lengths so many "critics" go to in hyping the fashionable superstars' records. ...

The Wackers: Shredder

Review by Ben Edmonds, Rolling Stone, 1 February 1973

"Dylan is old/The Stones are cold/The Beatles are gone/ And it's making me yawn..." ...

Genesis: Foxtrot (Charisma)

Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 30 September 1972

"HAVE YOU GOT a copy of the new album yet?", Mike Rutherford inquired meekly as Genesis prepared to go onstage at the Marquee last week. ...

Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Roxy Music: Country Life/Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1976

WOMEN, ON ROXY MUSIC covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've ...

Kim Fowley: International Heroes

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 30 July 1977

I REALISE it's getting to be an obsession, but what can I do? Even Viv Goldman, between bouts of trying to convince me to do ...

Nico: The Marble Index

Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 September 1977

"FROZEN WARNINGS close to mine, close to the frozen borderline......" ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1978

STONES FIND MOSS RETARDANT ELIXIR ...

Pulp: People's Poet: Pulp: This Is Hardcore (Island)

Review by Nick Hornby, Spin, May 1998

On the long-awaited sequel to Pulp's breakthrough album, Different Class, England's unofficial laureate Jarvis Cocker perfects his poetry of the prosaic. By Nick Hornby ...

Bush: Valise of the Dolts: Bush: Razorblade Suitcase (Interscope)

Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 18 January 1997

OK. WE ADMIT IT. We're shit. Culturally, politically, militarily, economically, morally, socially, athletically and aesthetically, Britain is rubbish. We can't win at cricket any more. ...

Field Music: Measure

Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 19 February 2010

THE BROTHERS BREWIS are natural Situationists, far too clever to take life overly seriously. This is no doubt what made Field Music's first two albums ...

Horrors, The: The Horrors: Skying (XL Recordings)

Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, July 2011

THE HORRORS know all about deceptive appearances. Their mid-00s emergence saw the music press in a lather, hype peaking with inevitable derision creeping forth from ...

Philip Glass: Phillip Glass: Einstein On the Beach (Tomato)

Review by Tim Page, New York Rocker, July 1979

IN MY opinion, Philip Glass is one of the two or three most interesting musicians alive today. Along with fellow composer Steve Reich, he has ...

Tubes, The: The Tubes: Young & Rich (A&M)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1976

JUST WHAT is going down here, huh? The defining images of our pop heroes seem destined for ever-shorter useful lives, as though we're accelerating toward ...

Morrissey: Ringleader Of The Tormentors

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2006

Funny things happen on the way to the Forum: Morrissey's eighth album is a love-letter to Rome and getting it on. ...

La Düsseldorf: La Düsseldorf (Radar RAD 7)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 15 July 1978

The Kraft of Düsseldorf ...

Paul Williams: Someday Man

Review by Bob Stanley, MOJO, April 2001

En route to the Carpenters, "boy" actor gets gorgeously baroque. ...

Associates, The: The Associates: Sulk (Associates/WEA/Beggars Banquet etc.)

Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 May 1982

BUTTERFLY BAWLS ...