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Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 15 January 2004

IT IS, OF COURSE, the awkward-looking blonde one who is the genius behind Busted. And rest assured that I don't use the word "genius" lightly. ...

Fanny: Fanny Hill (Reprise 2058)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 13 April 1972

FANNY HAVE finally made it: their new album is full of the best mainstream rock and roll I've heard so far this year. As well ...

Broken Bells: Broken Bells

Review by Johnny Sharp, bbc.co.uk, 9 March 2010

A sweet'n'sour and head-spinningly trippy set from Messrs Mercer and Burton. ...

Blur: Blur (Food/Parlophone 14tks/57mins)

Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 8 February 1997

Get this. BLUR have gone lo-fi. They're slumming it. And they might just have made their finest album to date... ...

Oasis: Don't Believe The Truth

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 31 May 2005

IT SEEMS TO BE that the ever-cyclical, ever-fickle music press is at that point in its orbit where Oasis are deemed cool again. People are ...

Wings: Venus And Mars (Capitol SMAS 11419)

Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, September 1975

McCartney: Looking Glass Hero ...

XTC: Drums And Wires (Virgin)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, 18 August 1979

Something Like The Best ...

Ringo Starr, Wings: Paul McCartney: Band On The Run/Ringo Starr: Ringo

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 19 January 1974

RINGO STARR is a wonderful person. His new album proves it. ...

Prince: Sign o' the Times (Warner Bros./Paisley Park)

Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 29 March 1987

Here's Prince for all seasons ...

Cheap Trick: In Color (Epic PE-34884)

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 22 September 1977

Cheap Trick's comical treat ...

Gillian Welch: Soul Journey (Acony)

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003

GILLIAN COULD HAVE COME DOWN from the mountains after Oh Brother and made the step into the wind that would have carried her to prosperity. ...

Bongwater: Double Bummer

Review by Richard Gehr, Village Voice, 7 June 1988

MARK KRAMER doesn't simply produce records, he saturates them. Even the quieter moments of such swell yet dissimilar albums as Half Japanese's Music To Strip ...

Yoko Ono: Approximately Infinite Universe

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, April 1973

YEAH, WELL, believe it or not: this is a totally rock 'n' roll album. It's also so far and away the best Beatles-related effort to ...

Radiohead: OK Computer

Review by Nick Kent, MOJO, July 1997

A year in the making, the follow-up to their multi-poll-topping classic, The Bends. ...

OutKast: Speakerboxxx / The Love Below

Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 23 September 2003

DRE, A.K.A. ANDRE 3000, a.k.a. Andre Lauren Benjamin, says he's run out of ways to express himself via hip hop. Big Boi, a.k.a. Antwan Andre ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (Korova)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 22 January 1983

PERHAPS IT WAS inevitable, even decreed in some heaven up "there". Maybe it’s just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isn’t good it isn’t ...

Oasis: Be Here Now

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, September 1997

WHAT ARE Oasis for? They were Built To Be Big. Their Long-Awaited-All-Important-Third-Album, Be Here Now, is about as big as a rock record can get. ...

Slade: Sladest (Polydor)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 29 September 1973

THE FIRST TIME I saw Slade I thought they were dreadful. It was that memorable night at the Lanchester Arts Festival when Chuck Berry cut ...

Prince: Liberated: Prince: Emancipation ****

Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, January 1997

: new label, old work rate ...

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 ...