TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of James Taylor
James Taylor
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8502
James Taylor Album Rankings
1
Last August James Taylor was quoted in Rolling Stone thusly: "I hope my next album will be simpler. It has to be, because the music is simple and a big production job just buries all my intentions.
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2
For blinded-by-dollars, behind-the-times, guiltily sentimental and generally just plain dopey behavior, it's hard to match the folks who vote on the Grammy Awards.
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3
JT (3.3010)For all his acoustic-guitar-by-the-campfire romanticism, most of James Taylor's music over the years has had a tinge of sadness to it.
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4
James Taylor was the first artist to be signed to record onthe Beatles' short-lived vanity Apple label.
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5
It's hard to talk about James Taylor's music these days without using the word "timeless.
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6
To compile a comprehensive one-disc best-of James Taylor album is a daunting task in and of itself. To compile it from material from three labels is a gutsy thing forDavid McLeesand Warner Bros.
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7
James Taylor's commercial breakthrough in 1970 was predicated on the relationship between the private concerns expressed in his songs and the larger philosophical mood of his audience.
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8
You can always count on James Taylor. Even in awful music years such as 1988, Taylor managed to put out music that still sounds timeless.
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9
Unless you closely follow the persons behind the electronic group Swayzak, the name James Taylor probably conjures up a completely different style of music than what you're going to get on Carthage Mi
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10
Gorillaserved notice to anyone expecting James Taylor to continue on in the personal, confessional vein of his first few albums that he did not intend to do so.
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11
Dad Loves His Workis a typical James Taylor record. The tunes are simple and memorable–you can sing along with most of them after two listens.
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12
A cozy companion to One Man Band, James Taylor's 2007 intimate stroll through his back pages for Starbucks' Hear Music, Covers once again finds the singer/songwriter on familiar, friendly territory, a
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13
While his aging contemporaries took a variety of tacks to keep up with changing fashions, from adopting more synthesized, percussive production styles to assembling an orchestra and singing standards
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17
James Taylor's mosaic art embodies two primary contradictions: the public figure versus the private person, and more importantly, the schizoid quality of reflective intelligence.
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21
There is a "patrician arrogance" to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
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22
With its heartening aura of renewed faith and burgeoning self-knowledge, James Taylor'sThat's Why I'm Herereveals a man at peace with himself, his notorious inner demons finally silenced.
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37
In a recent interview, Stevie Wonder said, "I think the ultimate is one's nakedness–being stripped of all these [material] things, and if there's such a thing as the soul that speaks–which I
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39
Sony repackaged and re-released three of James Taylor's best albums from the late '70s -- JT, Flag and Dad Loves His Work -- as a slip-cased box set.
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