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Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen)

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 25 July 1987

OF COURSE they're dreadful. What's more surprising is that so many members of the press, who on most other days of the week could be ...

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 ...

Steve Earle: Copperhead Road (Uni) *** ½

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 26 January 1989

IN 1986 AND 1987, Steve Earle made two great records — Guitar Town and Exit 0 — on which he established a vivid Southern-working-class identity ...

Nirvana: Bleach (Sub Pop import US LP only)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, NME, 8 July 1989

REAL ROCK music should hurt. Like being too near an exploding plate glass window, it should get under your skin and cause you to writhe ...

Aerosmith: Pump (Geffen 924 254/CD) *****

Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, 16 September 1989

Signed, sealed and delivered ...

The Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels

Review by David Sinclair, Q, October 1989

NOT ONLY did The Rolling Stones come out of the traps considerably faster than the current wave of mouthy young turks but they have stayed ...

Whitesnake: Slip of the Tongue (Geffen)

Review by Bud Scoppa, Spin, February 1990

A VENERABLE Brit rock band whose only constant was crusty-throated journeyman David Coverdale (his main claim to fame being a 1973-1976 stint as Deep Purple's ...

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," ...

Bob Dylan: Under The Red Sky

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1990

ONE EASY WAY of telling who the record industry considers to be this year's hot producer is to check the credits of the latest Dylan ...

The Dogs D'Amour: Straight??!!

Review by David Quantick, Vox, October 1990

I REMEMBER THIS LOT when they were impeccably authentic New York Dolls copyists, with Arthur Kane barnets and Johnny Thunders riffs and excess onstage falling-over. ...

Butthole Surfers: Piouhgd (Rough Trade/All formats)

Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 2 March 1991

PIOUHGD — WHAT A SCORCHER! ...

Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1991

LAST YEAR'S HANDS-DOWN winner in the specialist category of best debut album by a dreadlocked Russo-Jewish Bahamian-American, Lenny Kravitz has since gone global, being taken ...

Geto Boys: We Can't Be Stopped (Def American) **½

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 5 September 1991

IT'S A FAMILIAR debate: conservative guardians call the Geto Boys' music obscene, while liberal watchdogs accuse them of glorifying violence against women and degrading the ...

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I (Geffen GEF 24415); Use Your Illusion II (Geffen GEF 24420)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 19 September 1991

Appetite for pretension ...

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 ...

Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes: The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (Def American 512 263-2)

Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, June 1992

ONE DAY, maybe soon, The Black Crowes will be the biggest rock'n'roll band in Atlanta, Georgia — and following that, the world. Their debut LP ...

Faith No More: Angel Dust (Slash 828 321-2)

Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, July 1992

IN THE '90s, rock Is changing — or at least, public tastes are changing. Nirvana's Nevermind has topped the US album chart and is now ...

The Dogs D'Amour: The Dogs D' Amour: More Unchartered Heights Of Disgrace

Review by Chas de Whalley, Vox, June 1993

IT'S HARD TO RESIST the immediate temptation to write The Dogs D'Amour off as relics of that late-'80s sleazeball revolution that threw up Guns N' ...

Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against The Soul (Columbia 4740622)

Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 19 June 1993

ROCK 'N' SOUL AIN'T NOISE POLLUTION... ...

Guns N' Roses: The Spaghetti Incident? Geffen

Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, February 1994

LISTENING TO The Spaghetti Incident? is like hearing Use Your Illusion I and II refracted through cover versions. The first song, Axl Rose's pipe-bending 'Since ...