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David Bowie: Never Let Me Down

Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, August 1987

THE PICTURE OF Dorian Bowie, in which the master remains young but his music begins to limp. Or the boy who cried wolf, so that ...

Boy George: Sold (Virgin)

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 13 August 1987

AFTER INITIATING one of the most successful publicity juggernauts of the decade, Boy George had a hard time adjusting to the consequences of fame. The ...

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 ...

Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Globe of Frogs (A&M)

Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 10 March 1988

"SURREAL," "WHIMSICAL" and "psychedelic" are the standard adjectives that are applied to Robyn Hitchcock's oeuvre, but with his brilliant new album, Globe of Frogs, you ...

Prince: Lovesexy (Paisley Park)

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 14 May 1988

LEXICON OF LOVE ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cure: Disintegration

Review by Mat Snow, Q, May 1989

Closer To The Edge. ...

Tin Machine: Tin Machine (EMI)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, May 1989

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

David Bowie: ChangesBowie

Review by Mat Snow, Q, April 1990

BY ONE OF those neat symmetries, David Bowie introduced his prime persona at the very end of the '60s with Space Oddity, and laid it ...

Peter Murphy: Deep (Beggars Banquet)

Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 12 May 1990

PETER MURPHY knows what time it is. He's clocked the hippy-gumbo dancing hordes, seen the shaggy clothes and witnessed the wazzy smiles. He's even checked ...

The Pixies: Bossanova

Review by Terry Staunton, NME, August 1990

THE EVER-SO-ARTY lyric book that accompanies the new Pixies album contains the words to a song that you will not find on the record itself. ...

The Associates: Popera

Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 12 January 1991

ONCE UPON A time (the early '80s), there was something called "new pop". For about a year Morley's pipedream of a chartbusting music that combined ...

Queen: Innuendo (Hollywood) ***

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 7 March 1991

ONE WAY TO CONFIRM that Queen never consisted of your typically haughty progressive-rock snobs is to consider the following: In the late Seventies, Emerson, Lake ...

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty: Into The Great Wide Open

Review by Max Bell, Vox, August 1991

NOW TOM PETTY has developed the taste, his second solo album finds him in experimental mood. The post-Byrds vein of downbeat romantic country pop is ...

Recoil: Bloodline (Mute/All formats)

Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 18 April 1992

ALAN WILDER is the John Major of Electro. A nice chap — if every member of the public could spend ten minutes with him, he'd ...

Lou Reed: Re-issues

Review by Andy Gill, Q, May 1992

IT'S OFTEN OVERLOOKED in the face of the wholesale "decadent" mythology that has surrounded him since the early Velvet Underground, but of all the poets ...

Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, The Cult, Fields Of The Nephilim, Play Dead, Specimen, The Virgin Prunes: Various Artists: Gothic Rock

Review by Mat Snow, Q, July 1992

Was goth really any more than wearing silly clothes and humming funereal dirges? ...

Moose: XYZ

Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 5 July 1992

YOU KNOW, MAYBE the Scene wasn’t so bad after all. Sure, it churned out rapture by rote, but grunge has similarly turned rage into a ...

INXS: Welcome To Wherever You Are

Review by David Sinclair, Q, September 1992

NOW 15 years old, INXS have made remarkably little go a long way. ...


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