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Linda Ronstadt
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.3036
Linda Ronstadt Album Rankings
1
Following the same formula as her early records,Heart Like a Wheeldoesn't appear to be a great breakthrough on the surface.
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2
Linda Ronstadt's self-titled third album captured the singer moving away from the rootsier charms of her first two albums, toward a more polished take on country-rock.
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3
Different Drumcollects the highlights of Linda Ronstadt's first three solo albums, adding fiveStone Poneystracks, including the hit "Different Drum," for good measure.
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4
Featuring a broader array of styles than any previous Linda Ronstadt record,Simple Dreamsreconfirms her substantial talents as an interpretive singer.
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5
Like her friend Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt has, for most of this decade, recorded albums that explore diverse, distinctive styles.
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6
Linda Ronstadt's voice has never sounded better than it does onGet Closer.It's an uneven album, to be sure, but its spirit is unassailable.
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7
While it followed the same musical approach of the debut,Silk Pursewas an improvement onHand Sown Home Grown, featuring more confident vocals from Linda Ronstadt and a stronger selection of songs, inc
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8
Winter Lightcould arguably be classified as Linda Ronstadt's best pop album of the 1990s.
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9
Fair enough -- with a couple of exceptions (schmaltzy duets with James Ingram and Aaron Neville), the twenty-one tracks here are among Linda Ronstadt's very best.
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10
Depending on how seriously one takes Linda Ronstadt these days,Canciones de Mi Padre("Songs of My Father") is either a deeply felt homage to her family's Mexican heritage or the party-gag album of the
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12
For Sentimental Reasons was the last traditional pop album Linda Ronstadt recorded with Nelson Riddle, and it is virtually indistinguishable from its two predecessors -- it has the same sweeping arra
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13
Linda Ronstadt's 1995 album, Feels Like Home, was a return to her country-rock roots, resulting in an album much more "down-home" and less glossy than her previous pop albums, Winter Light and Cry Li
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15
Mas Canciones is a thoroughly enjoyable collection of Spanish and Mexican songs that is arguably stronger than its predecessor, since Ronstadt sounds more comfortable with the material than ever befo
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17
A symbol of '70s Southern California decadence, able to render the meaningful meaningless with a pretty smile and a technically proficient classically-trained voice, Linda Ronstadt has spent the past
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25
A surprising holiday album from Linda Ronstadt, who has chosen to include just a handful of standards and only one song in Spanish.
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29
Released in 1980, Mad Love featured Linda Ronstadt taking on new wave with mixed results. At this point, her albums with producer Peter Asher became routine and repetitive.
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33
Prisoner in Disguiseis an attempt to re-create the enormous critical and commercial success of Ronstadt's 1974 album,Heart like a Wheel.
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35
When I say welcome back, don't think of John Sebastian's awful song, or the equally awful television show it introduces.
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37
Don't Cry Now,produced by J.D. Souther, is the Ronstadt album for which we've been waiting.
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38
Beginning with her 1983 album What's New, Linda Ronstadt broke away from the pop/rock world and collaborated with Nelson Riddle on a trilogy of traditional pop standards that were confidently perform
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39
Some of Ronstadt's best work to date -- her first collaboration with bandleader Nelson Riddle ('40s and '50s standards).
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