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68 items by Chuck Eddy

  • Earth vs. the Pipettes

    Earth vs. the Pipettes | ALBUM REVIEW

    On their first album in four years, once-polka-dotted Brit gal group the Pipettes are now a duo-plus-musicians; two of the three original singers are gone. Sonically, they've replaced theoretical Phil Spector with theoretical astro-disco, most explicitly in...

    November 16, 2010 12:26 PM ET
  • 5.0

    5.0 | ALBUM REVIEW

    Aiming to capitalize on "Just a Dream," his biggest hit in a half-decade, Missouri's favorite rapper ends his sixth album with another soft-rock-tinged ballad — "Nothing Without Her," about taming a bad girl. On his way there,...

    November 16, 2010 12:22 PM ET
  • Dark Horse

    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
  • "Love Lockdown"

    "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
  • The Last Temptation

    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
  • Innuendo

    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
  • Violator

    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
  • People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

    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