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Steeleye Span: Now We Are Six (Chrysalis)

Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974

Span: Six of the best ...

Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977

IT'S TWO O'CLOCK in the morning and I'm playing The Idiot for the fifth time running. Can't stop, it's so compelling...but very VERY strange. ...

Supergrass: I Should Coco

Review by David Quantick, MOJO, July 1995

I Should Coco begins with one bloke muttering "know wot I mean?", another shouting "ONE TWO FREE FAW!" and an almighty shower of drumming. It ...

Annette Peacock: Colour Tails: Annette Peacock: I Have No Feelings (Ironic)

Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 20 February 1986

NOTHING YOU CAN pin down here. Nothing you safely stick a label on and file for easy access. ...

Radiohead: The Bends (Capitol)

Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, May 1995

THIS IS one of those follow-up albums (like the last Spin Doctors one and, I fear, the next Counting Crows, the Offspring, and Blur records) ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Iggy & the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS)

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 July 1973

Teenage insanity ...

Harry Styles: Harry Styles

Review by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 29 September 2017

HARRY STYLES has gone back to the future. Sooner or later, this short, wiry singer with the tousled hair and giddy tenor had to leave ...

Charlie Sexton: Charlie Sexton (MCA) **½

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1989

SAL, BABES, have you heard this kid, here, Charlie Sexton? That's right, kid. Yeah, he's all of 20 years old now and this is his ...

Mick Jagger: She's The Boss (Columbia)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 March 1985

GETTIN' NO SATISFACTION ...

Jet (UK): Jet: Jet

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 26 April 1975

AT LAST the 1972 show! ...

Tin Machine: Tin Machine (EMI)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, May 1989

Bowie's Machine: The Return of the Chameleon ...

Danny Wilson: Meet Danny Wilson (Virgin)

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 10 September 1987

"HERE'S SOME summer music for an angel," sings Gary Clark in 'You Remain an Angel', and what follows is not the Beach Boys' sandy harmonies ...

Wedding Present, The: The Wedding Present: Hit Parade II

Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, February 1993

IT WAS A BRILLIANT CONCEPT — and it worked. One single per month in 1992, breaking records and mocking the industry machine, as they clanged ...

Jobriath: Jobriath (Elektra)

Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 26 January 1974

YOU WILL soon be told that this cat is going to be the big breeze in 1974. Receive this piece of information with sceptical, though ...

Gary Numan: Telekon

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 6 September 1980

AH, THE shimmering dust-free corridors, the pleasure machines, the limitless possibilities opened up by microtechnology, the disturbing effects of cybernetic leisure upon the fragile human ...

Be-Bop Deluxe: Be Bop Deluxe: Drastic Plastic (Harvest)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1978

For a while there, Be Bop was one of the great post-glitter hopes from Britain. The first trio of albums displayed Bill Nelson as a ...

Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (RCA AFLI 2488)*****

Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 20 August 1977

"Yeah I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk,no more beating my brains,no more beating my brains,with liquor and drugs,with liquor and drugs,well I'm just a modern ...

Peter Hammill: Fool's Mate

Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, February 1973

WITHIN A DOUBLE-FOLD checkerboard of good natured psychedelia that would make sweet 1967 blush at her staying power, Peter Hammill, late of the morbidly super ...

Donovan: 7-Tease

Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, 18 January 1975

NOW THE FACTS are these: 7-Tease is a concept album; 7-Tease is a massive made-in-Nashville production; 7-Tease is also The Album Of The Stage Show. ...

The Divine Comedy: Regeneration

Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001

NEW SOUND but same ideals for polished popsmiths. ...