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Four Tops
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.2662
Four Tops Album Rankings
1
The Ultimate Collectionseries was a rare success from Motown, one of the first of the label's many compilation series to do justice to some of the finest performers, arrangers, and musicians of the so
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2
A bountiful three-record collection later issued on two CDs, the Four Tops'Anthologypresented, in chronological order, every notable song from the group's tenure at Motown, from their 1964 breakout hi
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3
When the Four Tops moved from Motown to Dunhill in the early '70s, they encountered the dilemma faced by most '60s soul giants, from Motown or elsewhere: how to update their sound while maintaining so
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4
You'd be hard pressed to find two better singles on a debut album than "Ask the Lonely" and "Baby I Need Your Loving.
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5
The last of the major Motown groups to receive proper box-set treatment, the Four Tops in a sense got the best of the bunch, since this tells a ripping history while providing a cornucopia of rarities
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6
Though it's one of the best Four Tops records of the '60s, Reach Out still feels weighted down by a few vain attempts at adult pop crossover.
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10
This is the best Four Tops hits package available on CD, and supplants all others except the lamented anthology.
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17
All the material here has been available before. Singles are mixed with album cuts to give listeners a peep at some Tops tunes they may have missed.
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26
A concept album that's different. Hip-O Records thoughtfully compiled love songs by the Four Tops recorded at Motown and ABC Records.
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27
This 1995 release -- the Four Tops' first Christmas album -- features classic holiday songs such as "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Away in a Manger," "Christmas Song," "Little Drummer Boy
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32
Here is a recording full of enthusiasm and a tremendous outpouring of soul.
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39
In early 1970, the group was assigned to Norman Whitfield disciple Frank Wilson for production, and he managed to breathe some life into their stagnating career.
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48
This wasn't among their biggest hit albums, but was a well-produced, nicely sung set anyhow.
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51
The Four Tops entered the '70s still among the dominant vocal ensembles.
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55
One of the later Four Tops albums, although the group's classic sound remained intact. Levi Stubbs' booming voice still resounded on a set of mostly routine tracks.
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