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Buju Banton: Voice Of Jamaica (Mercury/All formats)

Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 21 August 1993

THE FURORE provoked by Buju Banton's virulently anti-gay lyric to 'Boom Bye Bye' last year has had lasting repercussions on music in general and raggamuffin ...

Velvet Underground: 1969 — The Velvet Underground Live

Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1974

THE LAST YEAR has seen sufficient scholarly exegeses on the subject of Lou Reed to see us through the decade; and the release of 1969, ...

Brian Eno: More Blank Than Frank (Jem)

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1986

AFTER BRIAN Eno left Roxy Music in 1973, he made four prophetic rock albums that incorporated unbalanced rhythms, random synthesizer noises, minimalist drones and whimsical, ...

Karen Elson: Double Roses

Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 6 April 2017

IN THE SEVEN YEARS since Karen Elson's The Ghost Who Walks, there have been glimpses of the woman who was to emerge on Double Roses. ...

John Prine: Sweet Revenge

Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, January 1973

A NEW ALBUM by John Prine is an event. Let it be said at once that Prine is immeasurably the best singer-songwriter to come out ...

Björk: Volta

Review by Mark Kemp, Paste, 3 July 2007

WHEN MADONNA OR DAVID BOWIE enlists the latest production gurus to spice up their music, the results frequently come off sounding desperate, as if the ...

Sweet: The Sweet: The Sweet

Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, September 1973

IT'S BEEN A LONG time coming, but I think the pop revival is finally upon us. This "pop revival" has been somewhat hyped in the ...

The Police: Junger than Stingtime: The Police's Synchronicity

Review by Richard Cook, NME, June 1983

THE POLICE are much like Gods to their pop universe, not only in their worship rating but in their omnipotent attitude to their work. They ...

Dido: Boots and Beats Beneath the Bed: Dido's No Angel

Review by James Hunter, The Village Voice, 6 March 2001

WHEN HIP-HOPPERS go anywhere from Spandau Ballet to Annie to Diana Ross and David Bowie to Kenny Rogers for music – as Prince Be, Jay-Z, ...

New York Dolls: Too Much, Too Soon

Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, April 1974

"WE DON'T PLAY too good, but we dance as bad as we want," Archie Bell once said by way of introduction to his fabulous Drells ...

Neil Merryweather: Space Rangers

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 28 September 1974

THIS GUY'S got to be kidding. ...

Lou Reed: Transformer

Review by Jon Young, Blender, August 2002

New Yawk maverick gets commercial makeover from Ziggy Stardust, reaps chart reward. ...

Mott The Hoople: Mott (CBS)

Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973

A PERSPEX cut out face on the sleeve introduces us to Mott The Hoople Mark III, a group with a scarred history whose fifth and ...

Roxy Music, Mick Ronson: Mick Ronson: Slaughter On 10th Avenue (RCA APLI-0353); Roxy Music: Stranded (Atco SD 7045)

Review by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, July 1974

And when the kids had killed the man they had to break up the band... almost. Now that the glitter thunder is over, perhaps it'll ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Iggy and the Stooges: Ready To Die

Review by John Lewis, Metro, 26 April 2013

ONE MIGHT mock Iggy Pop for advertising car insurance, but the truth is that being a rock legend doesn't come with a guaranteed stipend: his ...

Steve Harley: Love's a Prima Donna

Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 31 January 1977

YOU'VE GOTTA FEEL sorry for Steve Harley. Aside from not having as much talent as Arthur Brown, he's really gotten the stult end of the ...

Lou Reed: Transformer (RCA)

Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, 4 January 1973

A REAL COCKTEASER, this album. That great cover: Lou and those burned-out eyes staring out in grim black and white beneath a haze of gold ...

Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (RCA)

Review by Max Bell, NME, 27 August 1977

GOG AND MAGOG?! No, Dog And Maindog. A Pure Pop Person Pleads Sanity. MAX BELL Was At The Hearings. ...

Be-Bop Deluxe: Be Bop Deluxe: Axe Victim

Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, 6 July 1974

IT'S GREAT to be right in there on the first still-to-be-perfected artistic utterance of A Truly Great Group To Be. That old warm self-congratulatory glow ...

Cockney Rebel: The Psychomodo

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 8 June 1974

ONE THING you gotta admit about Steve Harley, and that is that he does the funniest interviews since Marc Bolan. He even opens up Cocky ...


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