The songs rarely cohere into anything greater than the sum of their individual parts.
The collection’s only flaw is the omission of tracks representing the band’s pre-fame days.
My gay dad is gonna love this.
This Way trades in the pulpit for more organic fare tailormade for the everygirl.
No new songs. No controversial videos. No remixes. GHV2 is a long way from Madonna’s previous greatest hits compilations.
The album draws on the soul music that influenced Merchant to acknowledge her teachers.
Britney Spears is a professional tease.
Unfortunately, Kravitz’s simplicity occasionally presents itself as a glaring flaw.
With song titles like “Unbreakable” and “Invincible,” Michael Jackson may as well have embraced his critics and called his newest album Monster.
All hail the new kings of rock.
Much like a childhood goodie bag, They Might Be Giants supply all of the fun and frivolity of Tootsie Rolls, noisemakers, and useless plastic doo-dads.
More classic-sounding tunes like the jazzy “Snowflakes of Love,” based on an instrumental composed by Issac Hayes, lift the collection’s spirit.
Mr. Gwen Stefani and his crew certainly know how to milk their 15 minutes.
System of a Down rises to the top of the shallow nü-metal talent pool, and with some smart lyrics, gets out and dries off.
Forever proves that the TKA comeback could be more than just a trip down memory lane.
Like many of his fellow gangsta rappers, there’s a giddy pop star bubbling just beneath Ja Rule’s coarse exterior.
It’s often baffling when artists who have only had a minimal number of hit singles choose to release Greatest Hits collections.
The singer hesitantly approached her microphone like a hungry predator or lover and discretely toiled over each syllable.
Dolores O’Riordan and company fall a bit short of the emotive and atmospheric heights of 1994’s No Need to Argue
The album adds ’70s soul to the rapper’s predictable mix of self-declaration and catty peer-dissing.
Consider Vega, recently separated from her husband, producer Mitchell Froom, a reborn folkie.