25 hits from Twitty’s work for MCA and Warner Bros. are contained on this album, from “Guess My Eyes Were Bigger than My Heart” (1966) to “She’s Got a Single Thing in Mind” (1989). It’s an excellent introduction to one of the most popular…
Two Rooms is a wildly uneven star-studded tribute to a wildly uneven superstar songwriting team. Though Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote many of the best pop songs of the ’70s and ’80s, they have written more than their fair share of…
With 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (their fifth masterpiece in four years), Black Sabbath made a concerted effort to raise their creative stakes and dispensed unprecedented attention to the album’s production, arrangements, and even the…
The 2005 double-disc set Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection is the second Def Leppard compilation to be released in the U.S. The first, Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits, appeared ten years earlier, and while the band was active in the…
Eight years separated the release of Social Distortion’s misguided White Light, White Heat, White Trash and their next studio album, 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll, and a fair amount happened to the band in that time. Most notably,…