Complete Sessions 1971-72
Artist: Bon Scott
Forty Seasons: The Best of Skid Row
Artist: Skid Row
Community Score: 6.38

This after-the-fact compilation from one of the last hard rock bands to make any sort of impression before the alt-rock revolution made most of it meaningless does its job, limited as it is, fairly well. All the hit singles that Sebastian Bach and company cranked out during their brief run of superstardom are here; none particularly holds up out... Read More

The Best of Cold Chisel
Artist: Cold Chisel
Community Score: 4.00

Cold Chisel started life as just another pub rock band, but it finished as one of Australia's all-time greatest acts. This disc provides the perfect retrospective of one of the seminal Australian acts of the early '80s.

Cold Chisel was a band that was able to rock hard, but it also showed a deceptive depth and perceptiveness in... Read More

Many Worlds Are Born Tonight
Artist: Happy Rhodes

Happy Rhodes' debut is an impressive assemblage that echoes the past glories of David Sylvian, Alison Moyet, and Kate Bush. Given the content, it's likely to fall on very in-the-know ears for current radio trends are unlikely to embrace this diva's eclectic brand of pop music. Where this album fails is not in talent, but in her sometimes, almost... Read More

Wishpool
Artist: Brother Cane
Community Score: 9.00

Seeds proved to be Brother Cane's breakout release, launching a string of hard-rock radio hits. For its sequel, Wishpool, the quartet wisely decided to replicate the sound of Seeds, turning out a set of heavy rockers that have the style of '70s AOR and the production of '90s post-grunge. While it lacks anything as flat-out catchy as "Got No... Read More

Super Hits
Artist: Molly Hatchet

Super Hits is a budget-priced ten-track collection that actually features Molly Hatchet's three biggest hits -- "Flirtin' with Disaster," "The Rambler," "Satisfied Man" -- along with a number of album tracks like "Bounty Hunter," "Gator County," "Fall of the Peacemakers" and "Dead Giveaway." It's not quite as strong or cohesive as Greatest Hits,... Read More

Joe Walsh's Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know...
Artist: Joe Walsh

The double-disc Look What I Did! was simply too much for anyone but the dedicated Joe Walsh fan, which makes the release of the 15-song, single-disc Joe Walsh's Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know... so welcome. Drawing highlights from his solo career and his early records with the James Gang, Greatest Hits contains almost every song that most... Read More

Fit to Be Tied: Great Hits by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Artist: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Fit to Be Tied was intended to be the definitive Joan Jett hits package, and it nearly succeeds. Since Jett's Blackheart label only secured the rights to her first four solo albums (her most consistent work), the singles from the uneven Up Your Alley -- "I Hate Myself for Loving You" (one of Jett's best originals and biggest hits) and "Little... Read More

BBC Sessions
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Community Score: 7.91

Led Zeppelin's BBC sessions were among the most popular bootleg items of the rock & roll era, appearing on a myriad of illegal records and CDs. They were all the more popular because of the lack of official Led Zeppelin live albums, especially since The Song Remains the Same failed to capture the essence of the band. For anyone who hadn't heard... Read More

The Very Best of Cozy Powell
Artist: Cozy Powell

Polydor's The Best of Cozy Powell is culled from his early-'80s AOR and hard rock records. This wasn't the best period of Powell's career, suffering from a singular lack of imagination, but it had its moments, all of which are collected here. Even when distilled to this concise collection, these recordings are a bit thin and monotonous, but this... Read More

The Best of Wishbone Ash
Artist: Wishbone Ash

The twin-guitar-jam-infested ramblings of Wishbone Ash are for some the place where British rock and Southern rock meet in an unholy alliance, both influencing the other. This 11-track collection of this British group's best starts features nine classic tracks, plus two previously unreleased versions of a pair of Wishbone Ash favorites. The... Read More

Celtic Collections
Artist: Horslips

This is an ambitious and laudatory effort from K-Tel Records. While most of that label's releases in the Celtic music field centered on the new agey and commercially trendy sector of Celtic music (Altan, Clannad, Phil Coulter, et al.) and failed to represent the artists' body of work properly, this Horslips release actually paints a historically... Read More