TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Dave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.7485
Dave Edmunds Album Rankings
1
Recorded simultaneously withNick Lowe'sLabour of Lust,Repeat when Necessarycontinues the winning streak ofGet Itand on Wax 4simply by sticking to the formula.
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2
on Wax 4is the first officialRockpilecollaboration and its hard-driving, unified sounds make it one of Dave Edmunds' very best records.
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3
A double-disc set covering Dave Edmunds' entire career, the 41-songAnthology (1968-1990)does a fine job of capturing his musical evolution, even if it is not without its faults.
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4
Get Itmarks a significant departure from Dave Edmunds' early records, as it is the first time he's backed by a full band.
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5
Now that last year's big Rockpile cave-in is some distance away, it really does sound as if it was a case of irreconcilable musical differences that broke up the band.
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6
Not many people would have predicted that Dave Edmunds' post-Rockpile output would surpass Nick Lowe's.
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7
Clearly, Dave Edmunds had more use for Nick Lowe than he let on.
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8
Dave Edmunds' debut albumRockpileestablished his sound -- not only his revivalist tendencies, but also his method of meticulously recreating the sound and style of classic early rock & roll, R&B, and
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9
I'm trying to think of someone who wouldn't love this album. Manuel Noriega? Right from the start, the music goes down like good whiskey, with a big, deep sound that warms the pit of your gut.
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15
The 1994 English compilation Chronicles (1968-1984) is the abbreviated companion piece to Rhino's 1993 double-disc set Anthology, covering the same ground but with significantly less songs.
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16
Like Todd Rundgren, John Fogerty, Paul McCartney and Peter Townshend, when Dave Edmunds talks about recording solo, he means it literally.
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17
Returning to the one-man band approach of his early records, Dave Edmunds crafted a fine comeback with Plugged In.
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18
Given his legendary penchant for studio fanaticism, it's easy to overlook Dave Edmunds' abilities as a live performer and guitarist par excellence . A Pile of Rock: Live should fix that.
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23
Rockin' is a budget-priced collection covering Dave Edmunds' Columbia recordings.
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26
It was the late '70s and disco and adolescent stadium rock -- Styx, Journey, etc. -- were the dominant musical strains at my high school.
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