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On their very first studio album, the Grateful Dead are caught at a time before they had developed into A full-blown ...read more
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Editors note: the originally chosen name of this album - 'Skullfuck' - was deemed too offensive by Warner Bros. back ...read more
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Okay, Irish music fans, if you’re serious about your obsession, then there’s just no reason to pass this CD by. As ...read more
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After releasing the bleak and unconvincing collection of songs called “The Top,” something extraordinary happened to ...read more
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The conundrum of John Coltrane’s career was that he was one of the most focused and dedicated horn players of all time, ...read more
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Considering that I wrote a book called American Hit Radio and write for the American Hit Network, how could I possibly ...read more
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For reasons that are now difficult for me to comprehend, I really tried hard not to like this disk. I think this was the ...read more
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Classic Album Review 1987
After a series of albums that continually grew in their emotional complexity and artistic ...read more
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In a marketplace that offers thousands of new CD’s each and every week, what makes the Juliana Theory stand out from ...read more
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Wow, Carole King. To my mind, she’s been out of the limelight for so long that I never figured she’d venture back, but ...read more
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When this album was initially released at the start of the seventies, it was difficult to say if David Bowie was a ...read more
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The CD starts with the sound of a needle dropping on a record, and the gutbucket-style blues track that kicks off the ...read more
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If you are younger than me – and you probably ARE younger than me – then I’m afraid that you’ll miss the relevance of ...read more
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Alternative music sometimes strikes me as ridiculous. Take a quirky idea, drive it into the ground until people begin to ...read more
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Listening to this disk, I can’t help but wonder if Prince might have stayed too long at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ...read more
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Aphex Twin has blinded me – with science! I wish that I could have read my own review for this record before buying it, ...read more
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Of all the recording artists alive today, Bruce Springsteen is surely the most qualified to comment on the horrors of ...read more
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.Knowledgeable music fans and historians are familiar with Roky Erickson, but his music never caught on with the public ...read more
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From America’s perspective, 'Skiffle' music is a pretty strange bird, since it takes our indigenous music styles and ...read more
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I believe that virtually all negative reviews are borne from prejudice, and this one is no different. When I say “borne ...read more
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Do you know how long it has been since T-Bone Burnett has released an album of his own? I do. It’s almost fifteen years, ...read more
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There is very, very little doubt that this collection is gonna piss Prince off. Remember when he appeared on television ...read more
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Original Release Date 1984
After the breakout success of War, it became obvious that U2 had established themselves ...read more
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I have to admit that I feel somewhat embarrassed at having bought this two-disk set, but I guess it serves as a ...read more
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It is fascinating that this CD even exists. Ritchie Blackmore was once a rock and roll guitar god and a singular ...read more
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Charted: #11 in March 1964
Judging from Motown’s roster, it sometimes seems as if every black kid who grew up ...read more
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The funny thing about most box sets is that it is difficult to determine for whom it is intended. Is it for the rabid ...read more
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Charted: #16 in March 1960
The Drifters are the most appropriately named group in rock-and-roll history. So many ...read more
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For jazz vocalists, these are not the golden years. Every decade since the 1930s has seen it get harder and harder to ...read more
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Artistically speaking, the phenomenal commercial success of Let’s Dance provided more problems than solutions for David ...read more
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