TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Various Artists
Various Artists
CAREER SPAN:
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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
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Various Artists Album Rankings
1
Leave it to Bear Family Records to release a ten-disc collection of Communist and leftist-activist songs that only a dyed-in-the-wool Republican can afford! However, there's a lot of stuff on these di
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2
CMH raids the vaults for this bluegrass hits compilation.
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3
That'll Flat Git It!, Vol. 1contains 31 tracks of '50s rockabilly culled from the vaults of RCA Victor.
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4
Unswerving faith and tuneful banjos -- yes, the folks from CMH have done it once again, releasing another bluegrass compilation that's not neither bland nor pointless; it's also not just a jumble of t
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5
Soul, Funk, Jazz and now Disco Spectrum (Latin Spectrum is on its way), the BBE crew are turning compilations out at the rate of knots, though without any lapse in quality.
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6
This 25-track collection brings together some of the most inspiring blues harp performances on record.
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9
Recorded in 1989 but issued years later, this is a really splendid collection of music ranging from traditional musical bow through large voices-and-percussion groups and wonderful Makua fiddle via Sh
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10
The music on these 1989 recordings is both wonderful and very varied: timbila, a one-note-shawm ensemble, choirs including Afro-Luso-Arab women's choruses (strongly Luso-, vocally, which the notes ign
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11
Maybe it's too soon to release a John Lennon tribute, with the horrors of May 23 still fresh in our minds. Beatles fans haven't fully recovered from that night's American Idol finale salute to Sgt.
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12
Not since the 1980s has Kent compiled such a commercial collection.
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13
Despite what the title might imply, this is not a compilation of self-contained female rock groups (which were a real rarity in the 1960s).
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14
How Texas Saved Civilization People condemn whiskey, but they have no right to. Because when g-d created the heaven and earth, he created all things.
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15
Despite her name on the cover and her photos in the credits, Ella Fitzgerald's shadow doesn't loom over this tribute album, which is a good thing.
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17
28 rock and pop ballads from the late '50s and early '60s, most (though not all) falling into the teen idol mold.
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18
The soul music issued by the Scepter/Wand and Musicor/Dynamo labels tended to be the most pop-oriented, "uptown" sort of 1960s New York soul, as sung by stars on their roster likeDionne Warwick,Chuck
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19
There is something of a middle ground, however, where certain performers squeeze meaning out of the lyrics in a manner different than Mitchell while offering a fresh take on the musical elements.
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