Nineteeneighties - Grant-Lee Phillips
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  • Summary: The troubadour offers his take on a dozen 1980s alternative-rock classics, including songs by R.E.M., The Cure, New Order, The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen and The Pixies.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Phillips captures the imagery, as well as the heart, of an era’s underground.
  2. All [the tracks] are powerfully intimate. [Aug 2006, p.114]
  3. 80
    What makes this more than a self-indulgence is the mellow melancholy he brings. [Oct 2006, p.103]
  4. 60
    These tracks feel less like performances than private reveries on which the listener eavesdrops. [Aug 2006, p.108]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. SteveS
    8
    There are a couple of misses here, but the majority demonstrate the beauty and range of Phillips' vocal ability.