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Nineteeneighties

by Grant-lee Phillips

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2007

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Overall Rating: 2.5376 Nineteeneighties is ranked overall as 2.5376 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.9246 Nineteeneighties has an avg. critic score of 2.9246 out of 4 stars

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PopMatters

This consistency from song to song, and with the Grant-Lee Catalog, makes it fairly easy to accept Nineteeneighties as worthy project. ...more

PopMatters

The cover album is the musical equivalent of the mechanical bull: no one you know has ever ridden it to perfection, but everyone just has to take their damn turn anyway, holding on for one or two glorious seconds before flattening the cocktail waitress ...more

All Music Guide

While it's hard not to be overtaken with a sense of nostalgia while listening to this album if you knew these songs from back in the day, Phillips pulls them out of their original context and in the process reveals their strength is more timeless than one might have imagined. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Without exception, the well-chosen tunes become edgeless, pleasant downgrades of their remarkable originals

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The Phoenix

Phillips captures the imagery, as well as the heart, of an era’s underground. ...read the complete review at The Phoenix

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The A.V. Club

Covers albums generally rank next to "greatest hits played live" releases as easy ways for a band to fill out its catalog without trying all that hard. That bad rap is mostly deserved, because most musicians think plugging in and playing some...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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Amazon.com

The less successful interpretations simply fail to differentiate themselves from the spirit of the originals....read the complete review at Amazon.com

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