B-sides included here aren't without their charms but the album's genius clearly lay in distilling only the finest of Mould's new material into a powerful, singular statement. [Jul 2012, p.100]

Who's Next may not have been Pete Townshend's chose destination, but it encapsulates The Who better than anything before or since. It's the art=school provocateur, the bare-chested rock god and their virtuoso, brandy-soaked rhythm section at their peak. [Nov 2023, p.96]

On this recording--as well as his body of work--Trane proved that music is the superior language. And that there is only one John Coltrane. [Oct 2014, p.100]

Ultimately, the official album remains the crucible of the artist who flourishes to this day. [Dec 2010, p.112]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is genuinely a great record. [Feb. 2011, p. 108]

The working drafts may have comprised a more direct, accessible album. But this monument to Clark's troubled masterpiece shows how deep and far he was willing to go to capture--and share--the salvation in a song. [Dec 2019, p.107]

This is as perfect as any album can be. [Mar 2022, p.98]

Onstage his confidence was sky-high, his command total, much as it was in the studio. [Dec 2016, p.105]

They approach the tradition with an awe and wonder that especially percolates into the instrumentals. ... Their most extreme statement yet. [Dec 2019, p.89]

[A] mini-masterpiece. [Jul 2017, p.105]

The fabulous final versions of these songs often haven't travelled far from their rougher cuts, possibly because Harvey's voice, matured into a sumptuous growl, anchors the mood in enough grandeur. [Nov 2020, p.94]

The wily creativity on display here is astonishing. [Jun 2004, p.114]

Painfully literal in its detailing of grief. [Jul 2017, p.91]

Once inside, you discover fresh wonders. [Dec 2016, p.104]

This 1981 release was the middle and probably the greatest of Grace Jones's Compass Point trio. [Jun 2014, p.106]

An album virtually bereft of fluff and filler. [Album Of The Month] [Oct 2001, p.104]

It's too taxing for the less intense of the band's admirers. [Nov 2004, p.127]

Vibrant, vividly colourful and high spirited. [Jan 2006, p.146]

The main attraction of this six-disc box set reissue is a new ground-up stereo mix of Imagine by Paul Hicks at Abbey Road. These new mixes are clearer and more controlled, though respectful (maybe overly so). [Nov 2018, p.103]

For diehards, these takes [on the second disc] have an attractive live-in-the-studio-run-through feel, complete with informal chat and occasional sloppy edges. [Feb 2012, p.108]

By the time the closing spiritual Requiem rolls around it's self-evident Russell is very much in a genre of one. [Nov 2023, p.86]

All this may seem so exhaustive as to verge on the absurd, but fear not. It is the most fascinating document imaginable. [Dec 2016, p.100]

It's the exclusives that made this a cornerstone of any grunge collection. [May 2017, p.106]

The songs, six previously unreleased, range from good to outstanding, the sound quality as clear and natural as if he were singing in the next room. [Oct 2009, p.115]

It's as if the quintet has not yet achieved lift-off velocity. As such, the most fascinating tracks here are the older standards. [Sep 2023, p.94]

It's a vivid glimpse of a phenomenon on the cusp of mega-fame. [Jan 2022, p.100]

Ambitious, complex, raging and poetic. a testament to the possibilities of thrash. [Dec 2018, p.103]

Restored to Johnson;s original running order, it closes with the dissociative dance of Giant, a final defiant gesture on a record that squares up to tomorrow and--against the odds--wins. [Aug 2014, p.102]