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66 items by Chuck Eddy

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  Dark Horse | ALBUM REVIEW

  What's a poor rock band to do when your last album sold 8 million copies at a time when nobody buys CDs anymore? You can hire a guy who produced AC/DC, Def Leppard and Shania Twain albums...

  November 27, 2008 12:00 AM ET
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  "Love Lockdown" | SONG REVIEW

  Kanye clearly has no business singing, and at first his monotone makes you wonder why he tried. But his vocodered flatlining complements the opening heartbeats, and when his pitch hitches up on "you lose" and "system...

  October 16, 2008 4:55 PM ET
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  The Last Temptation | ALBUM REVIEW

  If you went to high school in the '70s, Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out" became part of your life. Cooper dirges like "Desperado" and "Muscle of Love" used dense Black Sabbath rumbling to rock in...

  July 14, 1994 12:00 AM ET
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  Innuendo | ALBUM REVIEW

  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 and Palmer released two albums called Works, as in "works of art,"...

  March 7, 1991 12:00 AM ET
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  Violator | ALBUM REVIEW

  As Edison might have put it, most great disco is one-percent inspiration, ninety-nine-percent perspiration. Its unguarded vulgarity is what puts it over — "I'm not the same/I have no shame," Madonna sang on her first record. What's...

  June 14, 1990 12:00 AM ET
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  People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm | ALBUM REVIEW

  Inasmuch as the arch and arty New York hip-hop foursome A Tribe Called Quest exudes any enthusiasm at all on its debut album, that enthusiasm shows up mostly in the grooves, not the voices. The samples, nowhere...

  April 19, 1990 12:00 AM ET