TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of John Denver
John Denver
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.6291
John Denver Album Rankings
1
Not long after John Denver's death last year (and after I wrote a review ofPoems, Prayers & Promises), I received an e-mail from someone aho had heard about the review from the alt.fan.
...more
2
John Denver's music always had a warm, home-spun quality to it, so it isn't surprising that his 1975 holiday effort,Rocky Mountain Christmas, is a wonderfully low-key and friendly Christmas album.
...more
3
It is here you find the gift and talent of John Denver in one of the brighter and more spirited moments of his career.
...more
4
After several albums in which he had allowed cover versions to dominate the sets, John Denver returned with an album,
...more
5
Rocky Mountain High, John Denver's 1972 release (and sixth overall), was a turning point for the artist as a superstar.
...more
6
As part of the soundtrack toVH1's Behind the Musicseries, this John Denver collection contains 18 of his top hits.
...more
7
As one of the most successful recording artists of our time, John Denver has become an undeniable and integral part of the American popular music scene with a career that has spanned 14 gold and eigh
...more
10
Besides being one of the five best-selling artists of all time, John Denver has a knack for combining seemingly dissimilar pieces into an attractive whole.
...more
25
What can you say about John Denver? As one of pop music's five all-time best-selling artists and a tireless ambassador of peace and goodwill, the beauty and inspiration of Christmas like a Lullaby sh
...more
26
Throughout his career, John Denver has reflected a caring and uniquely uplifting spirit to the world at large.
...more
28
Windsong was released at the peak of John Denver's career, and rode to Number One on the strength of his previous success, and the epic "Calypso," which happened to provide the touchstone for the alb
...more
36
Reflections: Songs of Love & Life is a collection of John Denver's most sentimental soft-rock hits from the '70s, including "Annie's Song," "Sunshine on My Shoulders," "I'm Sorry" and "How Can I Leav
...more
40
The Country Roads Collection is a four-disc box set that not only contains all of John Denver's hits, but also a large selection of choice album cuts and unreleased material.
...more
41
Relative newcomer John Denver -- his work with the Chad Mitchell Trio notwithstanding -- released his debut in 1969 to a relatively empty room.
...more
48
Released in 1973, Greatest Hits only sums up a handful of years of hitmaking for John Denver, but what years those were.
...more
51
There's a few hits on Portrait, but the double-disc compilation doesn't intend to be a hits collection.
...more
52
Legends collects three discs of singer/songwriter John Denver's hits, including "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Rocky Mountain High" as well as lesser-known cuts from his career.
...more
55
The accompanying soundtrack to the TV-movie of the same title, Take Me Home: The John Denver Story has a track listing that reads like a pretty good single-disc compilation, but beware: half of the d
...more
61
With John Denver, Denver seemed to be making attempts to change his pastoral country boy image.
...more
63
John Denver's music has always expressed themes of peace, harmony, and nature, and there is yet another dose of this spirit right here for those who love him.
...more