Use Your Illusion (I & II) by Guns n’ Roses
Buy Use Your Illusion I Buy Use Your Illusion II It had been four years since Guns n’ Roses had put out their last full studio album, which also happened to be their […]
2011
The Dylans
Buy The Dylans When determining which albums to review here at Modern Rock Review, we like to stay pretty much within the bounds of mainstream rock and usually only make exceptions for very […]
Achtung Baby by U2
Buy Achtung Baby “The sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree.” This is how lead singer and lyricist Bono described the radical new approach that the established and successful band U2 […]
Back In the High Life
by Steve Winwood
Buy Back In the High Life Steve Winwood is an artist who has had two major phases of his professional career. Starting as a teenager with the Spencer Davis Group, he was thrust […]
Graceland by Paul Simon
Buy Graceland In some of our previous reviews from the year 1986, you’ve probably already heard us mention several times our distaste for the slick sound that was predominant throughout releases issued that […]
Raised On Radio by Journey
Buy Raised On Radio Following the most commercially successful era for the band, lead singer Steve Perry firmly took control over Journey‘s musical direction. The ultimate result of this new direction was this […]
The Bridge by Billy Joel
Billy Joel‘s 1986 studio album, The Bridge, represents a crossroads on many fronts. It is the seventh and final Billy Joel studio album to be produced by Phil Ramone. Ramone, starting with The […]
Strong Persuader by Robert Cray
Buy Strong Persuader The 1980’s music scene is best remembered by most people as a time when synthesized sounds ruled the radio waves and the glitzy MTV videos of hair bands and rap […]
3.V by Zebra
The three-piece rock band Zebra did not spend a long time on the national scene, nor did they have tremendous success while they were on that scene. But there is no doubt that […]
So by Peter Gabriel
Buy So A little over a decade after departing from Genesis as their elaborate frontman, Peter Gabriel released his fifth and most successful solo album. After releasing four consecutive albums with the same […]