Box Set Reviews

Review by: The Joker The Eagles - The Eagles Deluxe One of the things that the universe has been quietly filing away under ‘Unresolved Cosmic Ironies’ since approximately 1971 is that The Eagles are simultaneously the most unavoidable band in American rock history and the band that a certain type of music critic—i.e., the type of music critic who owns a hand-me-down corduroy sport coat and has opinions about Gram Parsons—most wants to pretend to despise. Don't be that critic.

Review by: The Joker The Lovin' Spoonful: What A Day For A Daydream - The Complete Recordings 1965-1969, is 170 tracks of what happens when folk musicians from the Village discover a recording budget and decide to use it as a weapon of sunshine and rainbows. This is not your grandmother's trip down memory lane, although she probably gave some guy a handjob to "Daydream" back in some Chevy as Nixon was just a vice president footnote on the horizon of history. This is the whole