TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.4047
Roy Orbison Album Rankings
1
Roy Orbison scored 20 consecutive Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965, all but the last of them on the Monument Records label.
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2
Appearing as it did just a few months before Roy Orbison's death, this single CD best-of was incredibly fortuitous for Rhino Records.
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3
The late Roy Orbison's first album of all-new material in ten years,Mystery Girlcloaks the epic sweep and grandeur of his classic sound in meticulous, modern production – the album encapsulates e
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4
20-track compilation ofOrbison'sSun sides, including both sides of all four of his official Sun 45s, and a dozen tracks he recorded for the label that remained unissued at the time.
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5
The diamond-pure voice from Vernon, Texas, turned heartbreak agony into everlasting ecstasy with early-Sixties classics "Crying," "Running Scared," and "It's Over," but Roy Orbison matched – nay,
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6
Before I go into detail about the glory that is Roy Orbison and his 'Crying' LP, I want to briefly discuss the impact MP3 downloading is having on artists such as Roy.
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7
Because of his unique place in rock history, Orbison has long been worthy of this type of definitive career retrospective, one taking into account the creative and popular renaissance he enjoyed at th
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8
Elvis ' favourite singer. There you go. End of review, end of argument, end of f**king story.
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9
Whether or notRocksis hot depends on your vantage point.
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10
Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson are about as familiar as the faces on Mount Rushmore, and it's easy to assume that they are equally frozen in time, equally nonthreat
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11
A latter-day package of unreleased tracks, this is worthy if only for the tremendous Orbison/ k.d. Lang duet of "Crying.
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15
It may not be definitive, but Roy Orbison's Super Hits is an enetertaining budget-line sampler that contains several of his greatest hits, including "Only the Lonely," "In Dreams," "It's Over," "Cryi
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28
What riles me aboutLaminar Flowisn't so much that the LP is an embarrassing travesty ill-suited to one of rock's minor masters, but that such a debacle was totally unnecessary.
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65
This brief ten-track hits collection includes Orbison favorites like "Only the Lonely," "Oh Pretty Woman" and "Workin' for the Man.
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