Entertainment Weekly (p.54) - "Songs like the squiggly 'Gotta Get It (Dancer)' and the hyperspeed thumper 'Jump' practically come with their own strobe light..." -- Grade: BBillboard (p.29) - "The best cuts are those that mirror the MC's usual themes with even more familiar sounds..."XXL (Magazine Publisher) (p.97) - "Chock-full of club anthems, singsongy lyrics and upbeat production, Flo's sophomore set packs enough catchy jingles to keep him atop the charts..."0.2044565
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Billboard (p.33) - "[T]he Bronx-bred rapper again proves that he's got a knack for infectious beats."XXL (Magazine Publisher) (p.99) - "Joe's M-I-Yayo influence is eventually felt, on the breezy 'Congratulations' and the Fabolous collaboration 'Here We Go.'"0.1703804
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Billboard (p.33) - "[T]he Bronx-bred rapper again proves that he's got a knack for infectious beats."XXL (Magazine Publisher) (p.99) - "Joe's M-I-Yayo influence is eventually felt, on the breezy 'Congratulations' and the Fabolous collaboration 'Here We Go.'"0.1703804
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Q (8/01, p.153) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The real deal. Contemporary punks' chillout soundtrack of choice..."Mojo (Publisher) (8/02, p.85) - "...Captures Marley's quite staggering spirituality, sexiness and sense of fun....a total classic."36.71492
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Spin (p.78) - "PLEASURE's ten track of gorgeously distorted, lo-fi pop glides languidly enough for '90s slowcore, but with woozy rhythms, lovelorn lyrics, and reverb-saturated textures that feel timeless."CMJ - "Pure X creates an ominous, hypnotizing world of sound, recorded live on this album with no overdubs."Pitchfork (Website) - "Pure X have become the refined and elemental version of their former selves....PLEASURE is all about texture and patience, stretched to ensure maximum zoneage."Uncut (magazine) (p.95) - 3 stars out 5 -- "Songs like 'Dream Over' and the '60s pastiche of 'Easy' are easy-going reverb-drenched pop songs with the merest hint of country rock..."27.00348
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Musician (6/94, p.80) - "...It's [Vaughan's] vision, rather than any window dressing, that makes the old sound new, a bit twisted and uniquely his own...."26.93272
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CMJ (1/5/04, p.12) - Ranked #6 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983".26.93272
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Entertainment Weekly (5/17/96, p.62) - "...Although he occasionally loses his focus, Hall, a passionate, almost scarily intense performer, blends elements from Sly Stone, the Isley Brothers, and the Gun Club into a potent stew."- Rating: B+Q (7/96, pp.112-114) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...hints of blues, gospel and rootsy soul with manic guitar and lusty, emotional singing....his band can stir up a minimal, clean groove as capably as they can stamp on their distortion pedals and give it full throttle..."26.91549
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Alternative Press (p.169) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[They] deliver a bracing, nitro-juiced third album with GUILTY PLEASURES, handling the high-throttle hardcore rhythms with a steady hand..."19.30492
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Melody Maker (6/7/97, p.49) - "...joyous blast of pop with a bittersweet sting...MUSIC FOR PLEASURE is a treat for those few dead souls who wished it was New Order, not The Smiths, who got to shape the band sound of the nineties."19.30492
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CMJ - "MY GUILTY PLEASURE is an amalgam of wintry nostalgia and cool midsummer lullabies."Q (Magazine) (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With a] polished synthesis of Balearic beats and feathery harmonies...recalling moments of fellow Scandinavian Annie."Pitchfork (Website) - "[H]er voice still has a perfectly evocative quality..."19.27966
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JazzTimes (5/02, p.124) - "...SIMPLE PELASURES offers the listener just that..."19.2789
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Q (9/93, p.90) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...PURE PLEASURE is the best on offer..."Vibe (10/93, p.112) - "...with a coarse, sexy growl, Shaggy's a rough boy with a comic edge, and PURE PLEASURE, his impressive major-label debut, could easily make him dancehall's next superstar..."NME (Magazine) (7/10/93, p.32) - 3 Stars - Average - "...More untrammelled sexual innuendo set to a rattling old ska stomper! What more could we want? Alas, everything...[new single `Soon To Be Done'] ends up as a boring account of Shaggy's nightly conquests because he forgets to put a tune to it..."19.27647
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Down Beat (p.74) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Rotondi has a bright, crackling tone and takes charge....Davis' passionate, Cannonball-shot style keeps the temperature high."19.25735
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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.107) - Ranked #30 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Ferry's most pathetic erotic idolatries...it sounds good..."Q (6/00, p.75) - Ranked #33 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"Q (9/99, pp.122-3) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...a more consistent, together album, by definition less weird than the first, but Ferry's world of high-class ladies...is always couched in screeching guitar and atmospherics....sophisticated rock songs..."NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #27 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.19.25705
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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.107) - Ranked #24 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Punk on the edge of goth, with echoes of disco and the Doors..."Spin - Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics.Spin (5/01, p.109) - Ranked #11 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...A rolling murk of wrist-slash guitars, meat-locker ambience, death-disco beats, and funereal siren-songing. Goth starts here."Q (p.113) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[S]imply ferocious....'Shadowplay' ramps up the guitars to Hannett-defying levels and 'Transmission' could have an eye out."Q (6/00, p.78) - Ranked #19 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"Q (9/93, p.97) - 5 Stars - Indispensible - "...UNKNOWN PLEASURES [is] so fully realized, it [doesn't] sound like the debut from four Manchester oiks [Joy Division]....Exhausting listening, but never inaccessible..."Magnet (p.112) - "Joy Division - like the Velvet Underground before it - now boasts an ever-widening sphere of musical influence, far greater in depth than it ever had in its short lifespan."The Wire (p.68) - "UNKNOWN PLEASURES derives much of its musical force from a classical configuration of tensions..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #26 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums".Mojo (Publisher) (9/01, p.86) - "...Retained the nervy, paranoid energy of punk but...ended up some place entirely 'other'..."NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.28) - Ranked #10 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums".NME (Magazine) (9/11/93, p.18) - Ranked #4 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...Ian Curtis made epilepsy momentarily hip with the funereal brooding of 'Atmosphere' and panicky congestion of 'She's Lost Control.' Let's party!..."NME (Magazine) (7/3/93, p.36) - 10 - Classic - "...Thirteen years on and UNKNOWN PLEASURES is still not so much a record as a full-scale nuclear winter...."NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #43 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'Blender (Magazine) (p.157) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ntense, somber....[The album] inverts punk's unified roar into distant alienation..."19.23291
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"O'Hara's film puts us in a world of gambling and loan sharks as well as hedonistic parties. It's a fascinating social document..."Sight and Sound19.16255
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CMJ (6/26/00, p.24) - "...The album is by turns folky, poppy and jarring....a personal and ambitious album that will appeal to those looking for music that can't be easily categorized."19.16255
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Option (Sept.-Oct./92, p.102) - "...this is a group with great range and style. I like just about everything about this disc--the repertoire, the soloists, the influences (Mingus, Ellington, George Russell)...One of the better releases to come along this year..."19.15393
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Spin (9/98, pp.188-189) - 8 (out of 10) - "...further honed REPLICA's adolescent angst/android fetishism schtick..."CMJ (1/5/04, p.6) - Ranked #12 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1980".Q (Magazine) (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's often forgotten that this was electronic music's commercial breakthrough."Record Collector (magazine) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is a simultaneously grim and enlightening experience, and highly recommended."15.41613
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Spin (9/98, pp.188-189) - 8 (out of 10) - "...further honed REPLICA's adolescent angst/android fetishism schtick..."CMJ (1/5/04, p.6) - Ranked #12 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1980".Q (Magazine) (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's often forgotten that this was electronic music's commercial breakthrough."Record Collector (magazine) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is a simultaneously grim and enlightening experience, and highly recommended."15.41613
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Their least conventional album, it sounds as simultaneously out of time and novel as it ever did."15.33693
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No Depression (p.77) - "It's aptly titled, a disarmingly straightforward collection that delivers often-thorny truths with a smile....Holland sounds like he's exactly where he ought to be."15.33262
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Record Collector (magazine) (p.83) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Uptown/Downtown is perfectly driven by a crisp rhythm, underpinned by tight synth melodies and Foxx's symphonic sub-vocoder voice."15.33262
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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.107) - Ranked #24 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Punk on the edge of goth, with echoes of disco and the Doors..."Spin - Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics.Spin (5/01, p.109) - Ranked #11 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...A rolling murk of wrist-slash guitars, meat-locker ambience, death-disco beats, and funereal siren-songing. Goth starts here."Q (p.113) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[S]imply ferocious....'Shadowplay' ramps up the guitars to Hannett-defying levels and 'Transmission' could have an eye out."Q (6/00, p.78) - Ranked #19 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"Q (9/93, p.97) - 5 Stars - Indispensible - "...UNKNOWN PLEASURES [is] so fully realized, it [doesn't] sound like the debut from four Manchester oiks [Joy Division]....Exhausting listening, but never inaccessible..."Magnet (p.112) - "Joy Division - like the Velvet Underground before it - now boasts an ever-widening sphere of musical influence, far greater in depth than it ever had in its short lifespan."The Wire (p.68) - "UNKNOWN PLEASURES derives much of its musical force from a classical configuration of tensions..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #26 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums".Mojo (Publisher) (9/01, p.86) - "...Retained the nervy, paranoid energy of punk but...ended up some place entirely 'other'..."NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.28) - Ranked #10 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums".NME (Magazine) (9/11/93, p.18) - Ranked #4 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...Ian Curtis made epilepsy momentarily hip with the funereal brooding of 'Atmosphere' and panicky congestion of 'She's Lost Control.' Let's party!..."NME (Magazine) (7/3/93, p.36) - 10 - Classic - "...Thirteen years on and UNKNOWN PLEASURES is still not so much a record as a full-scale nuclear winter...."NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #43 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'Blender (Magazine) (p.157) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ntense, somber....[The album] inverts punk's unified roar into distant alienation..."13.49449
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Magnet (4-5/00, p.88) - "...The Slaves are proof [that] underground rock is alive and well and kind of mean."13.43274
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Rolling Stone (p.62) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The U.K. indie band's second album has beefed-up sound and increasingly brilliant, not-at-all-pretentious gems like 'Girls Who Play Guitars'..."Spin (p.86) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Maximo Park bring plenty of recognizable spark and smarts to their second album....The record barely pauses for breath..."Q (p.122) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Sandblasted And Set Free' indicates a welcome broadening of their musical palette."Alternative Press (p.149) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "There are flashes of retro-flavored, spirit-of-'79 brilliance, including Duncan Lloyd's spy-versus-spy guitars on 'The Unshockable'..."13.41982
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"The key pleasure of this Caribbean-set mystery is seeing Gene Hackman...at the center of attention again..." USA Today "...[Hackman and Freeman] are, as always, splendid..."Entertainment Weekly "...A mesmerizing mind teaser....Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat..." Rolling Stone "...UNDER SUSPICION is absorbing, keeping you guessing right up to a wallop of a finish and offers the pleasures of a chamber drama's bravura performance from a pair of supremely accomplished pros..." Los Angeles Times "...Freeman, as ever, commands respect with a low-key turn..." Total Film12.4664
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"...An emotional knockout....Williams and DeNiro are astounding. So's the movie. It takes a piece out of you..." Rolling Stone "...De Niro's widely praised performance is like the rest of the film: competent, a product of hard work..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...Marshall has a gift for reticence..." Los Angeles Times12.42593
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"...[Diaz and Roberts] are extremely engaging....Rupert Everett beautifully plays the role of George..." Sight and Sound "...[Roberts] dazzles again..." USA Today "...Roberts is the right star for it...She has the blend of radiance and agility..." Entertainment Weekly "...One of the pleasure of Ronald Bass' screenplay is the way it subverts the usual comic formulas....Roberts, Diaz and Mulroney are in good synch..." Chicago Sun-Times12.21424
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"...[Diaz and Roberts] are extremely engaging....Rupert Everett beautifully plays the role of George..." Sight and Sound "...[Roberts] dazzles again..." USA Today "...Roberts is the right star for it...She has the blend of radiance and agility..." Entertainment Weekly "...One of the pleasure of Ronald Bass' screenplay is the way it subverts the usual comic formulas....Roberts, Diaz and Mulroney are in good synch..." Chicago Sun-Times12.21424
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"...TOMBSTONE is replete with traditional Western pleasures: lusciously photographed sunsets, rugged landscapes, consistently witty dialogue...and a gallery of finely-realised heroes and villains..." Sight and Sound "...Russell's clear, steady portrayal of Wyatt Earp gives the film a core of emotional integrity..." New York Times "...The leanest, meanest Earp movie yet....Sprawling, chaotic [climax]..." Entertainment Weekly "As a fey, tubercular Doc Holliday, Val Kilmer is especially impressive, giving a just-shy-of-over-the-top performance that might have prompted Johnny Depp to take notes."A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "A rousing western in the spirit of THE WILD BUNCH....Kilmer gives a career performance as Holliday..."Premiere12.18874
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"...TOMBSTONE is replete with traditional Western pleasures: lusciously photographed sunsets, rugged landscapes, consistently witty dialogue...and a gallery of finely-realised heroes and villains..." Sight and Sound "...Russell's clear, steady portrayal of Wyatt Earp gives the film a core of emotional integrity..." New York Times "...The leanest, meanest Earp movie yet....Sprawling, chaotic [climax]..." Entertainment Weekly "As a fey, tubercular Doc Holliday, Val Kilmer is especially impressive, giving a just-shy-of-over-the-top performance that might have prompted Johnny Depp to take notes."A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "A rousing western in the spirit of THE WILD BUNCH....Kilmer gives a career performance as Holliday..."Premiere12.18874
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.121) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "GAOB were one of post punk's most melodic, out-and-out pop acts."11.62345
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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.107) - Ranked #24 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Punk on the edge of goth, with echoes of disco and the Doors..."Spin - Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics.Spin (5/01, p.109) - Ranked #11 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...A rolling murk of wrist-slash guitars, meat-locker ambience, death-disco beats, and funereal siren-songing. Goth starts here."Q (p.113) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[S]imply ferocious....'Shadowplay' ramps up the guitars to Hannett-defying levels and 'Transmission' could have an eye out."Q (6/00, p.78) - Ranked #19 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"Q (9/93, p.97) - 5 Stars - Indispensible - "...UNKNOWN PLEASURES [is] so fully realized, it [doesn't] sound like the debut from four Manchester oiks [Joy Division]....Exhausting listening, but never inaccessible..."Magnet (p.112) - "Joy Division - like the Velvet Underground before it - now boasts an ever-widening sphere of musical influence, far greater in depth than it ever had in its short lifespan."The Wire (p.68) - "UNKNOWN PLEASURES derives much of its musical force from a classical configuration of tensions..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #26 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums".Mojo (Publisher) (9/01, p.86) - "...Retained the nervy, paranoid energy of punk but...ended up some place entirely 'other'..."NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.28) - Ranked #10 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums".NME (Magazine) (9/11/93, p.18) - Ranked #4 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...Ian Curtis made epilepsy momentarily hip with the funereal brooding of 'Atmosphere' and panicky congestion of 'She's Lost Control.' Let's party!..."NME (Magazine) (7/3/93, p.36) - 10 - Classic - "...Thirteen years on and UNKNOWN PLEASURES is still not so much a record as a full-scale nuclear winter...."NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #43 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'Blender (Magazine) (p.157) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ntense, somber....[The album] inverts punk's unified roar into distant alienation..."11.58168
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"...Likable....Ms. Fox's cool sexual self-possession is impressive..." New York Times "...Fox is winning as the charmingly conniving Shante....Chestnut is suave..." USA Today "...[Union] possesses a physical appeal that rivals any actress in movies today..." Box Office "...Among the movie's pleasures is the fact that everybody on the screen is very good-looking....[Vivica A. Fox is] glamorous and bewitching..." Chicago Sun-Times10.91852
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