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Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 4 August 1979

THIS TIME I really feel entitled to smile. ...

Talking Heads: Taking Heads: Fear Of Music (Sire)

Review by Paul Rambali, NME, 18 August 1979

TOM WOLFE ONCE wrote a book called The Painted Word, a thin volume of accomplished iconoclasm. In it he traces the rise and rise of ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie And The Banshees: Join Hands (Polydor)

Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 1 September 1979

(IT'S MY party and) I'll mystify if I want to! ...

Gary Numan: The Pleasure Principle

Review by Danny Baker, NME, 8 September 1979

AND PEOPLE seethe at the Golden Boy. Let's forget the threadbare rock'n'roll bitch that it's all been done before by 'proper' artists — Bowie this, ...

Blondie: Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis)

Review by Paul Rambali, NME, 22 September 1979

BLONDES have more fun. They also sometimes sell more records. This puts our subject in a rather invidious position. ...

Wire: 154 (Harvest)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, 22 September 1979

WIRE WERE from the very outset a conceptually intriguing collective, even though they bristled with a potential that was all too often offset by niggling ...

Wire: 154 (Harvest SHSP 4105)

Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 22 September 1979

And keeping it there ...

James Blood Ulmer: Tales Of Captain Black (Artists House)

Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 26 January 1980

IT WON'T be long, I guess, before someone describes James "Blood" Ulmer as "the new Hendrix", so you might as well be forewarned. ...

Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Get Happy!! (F-Beat)

Review by Paul Rambali, NME, 16 February 1980

ON AN otherwise typical day late last October, Elvis Costello strolled through the door of London’s Rock On record shop in Camden Town, the oldies ...

Psychedelic Furs, The: Psychedelic Furs: The Psychedelic Furs (CBS 84084)***¾

Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 March 1980

So fur so good ...

Robert Fripp: God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners (Polydor)

Review by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, July 1980

I. Last year, Bob Fripp announced his "Drive to 1981". As I understood it, The Drive was to consist of three albums: the first, a ...

The Associates: The Affectionate Punch

Review by Paul Morley, NME, 16 August 1980

RUMOURS have been dripping down from Scotland about a diverse horde of determined post Skids/S. Minds/Scars groups all ready to shift our attention. Positive Noise, ...

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 ...

Robert Palmer: Clues (Island)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 September 1980

WHY 'CLUES'? I mean to say, Robert old chap, it's not as if there's some burning question to all this despite the wacky covershot of ...

The Skids: The Absolute Game

Review by Chris Bohn, NME, 20 September 1980

BUBBLEGUM'S BACK and it sounds wonderful. In contemporary terms the Skids are to The Clash and the post-modernists what Sweet were to Slade and Bowie: ...

David Bowie: Scary Monsters (RCA)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 20 September 1980

LEARNING to live with somebody's depression: the man in the clown suit stops running, finds self in back-against-wall situation, attempts to deal with same. Scary ...

Dollar: The Paris Collection (WEA K58246) ****

Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 21 February 1981

Dollar duo in 'Cabaret Voltaire influence' shock claim ...

Adam & the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier (Epic NJE37033)

Review by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, April 1981

IMAGINE AN obsessive singer who calls to mind an earthbound version of glitter-era David Bowie, and a guitarist who draws from sources as diverse as ...

David Bowie: Bowie For Breakfast: Angie Bowie’s Free Spirit

Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 4 July 1981

David’s golden years get shredded as Angie spills half baked beans. ...

Duran Duran: Duran Duran (EMI)

Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981

D'RONE D'RONE ...