TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of John Hiatt
John Hiatt
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.0017
John Hiatt Album Rankings
1
After the success ofBring the Family, John Hiatt originally intended to reunite that album's all-star backing band (Ry Cooder,Nick Lowe, andJim Keltner) for a follow-up.
...more
2
In 1987, John Hiatt, clean and sober and looking for an American record deal, was asked by an A&R man at a British label to name his dream band.
...more
3
People have been telling me for years that I should drink more red wine. They badger me about hanging back with the smoother Rieslings and white Zins.
...more
4
This CD, featuring an almost exclusively acoustic set of blues by John Hiatt, is evocative, emotional, and utterly successful.
...more
5
Some songwriters thrive on misery, but John Hiatt is finished suffering for his art.
...more
6
For John Hiatt, there is rock after 40.
...more
7
His richest and most consistently satisfying release since the late '80s.
...more
8
John Hiatt's talents as a singer and songwriter have never been a matter of question, but for the longest time neither Hiatt nor his various record labels seemed to know what to do with him.
...more
10
As of its 2001 release, there are at least three other single-disc compilations of John Hiatt's prolific career available, but none truly does justice to his immense body of work. Until now.
...more
11
Celestial guitars and excitable choirboy vocals, "More Than a Feeling" was radio heaven, a nifty fusion of "Louie Louie" spunk and semiclassical kitsch.
...more
18
John Hiatt mixed pop, folk, rock, R&B, country, and gospel on his debut album, immediately becoming an uncategorizable (and thus uncommercial) entity.
...more
19
John Hiatt is better at imitating Howlin' Wolf than he is James Taylor, and that he tries both here as well as Bob Dylan and Ben E. King is some indication of his ambition, if not his accomplishment.
...more
20
Hiatt's fifth album and his first for Geffen, his third record label, was given a somewhat inappropriate big-gloss production (all shimmering keyboards and filtered vocals) by Tony Visconti, known fo
...more
21
Featuring some of the finest songs of his career--including the rocking "The Usual" and the Elvis Costello duet "Living A Little, Laughing A Little," this album displays a terrific artist nearing the
...more
25
Living a Little, Laughing a Little does a good job as an early-career summary, drawing material from each of his albums released from 1974 to 1985 -- Hangin' Around the Observatory, Overcoats, Slug L
...more
28
Here he was, looking like a punk rocker on the cover--but older fans knew he'd already made some albums in Nashville.
...more
29
The best thing about John Hiatt is that he really isn't very likable and doesn't even pretend to apologize for it.
...more
Copyright © 2003 - 2008 TopTenREVIEWS, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of TopTenREVIEWS, Inc. is prohibited.
Email to a friend
4.50to8.72
New Reviews Newsletter
Want to be notified when new review sites are announced? Sign up for our email review notifications.