Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House
Artist: Crowded House
Community Score: 7.75

Recurring Dream is a 19-track collection which assembles most of the band's singles and adds three new studio tracks to entice fans -- "Not the Girl You Think You Are," "Instinct," and "Everything Is Good for You." As a career summary, the collection works fairly well, though the nonchronological sequencing makes for a slightly confusing listen.... Read More

Viva el Amor
Artist: The Pretenders
Community Score: 10.00

Since (at least) Packed! each new record from the Pretenders has been hailed as Chrissie Hynde's return to form (praise that was thrown at Learning to Crawl, by the way), and it's hard not to resist to say the same of Viva El Amor!, the seventh studio album from the Pretenders. So, we won't say that, even though it may be true. At the very... Read More

Super Hits
Artist: Gary Puckett & the Union Gap

For a brief time in the late '60s, Gary Puckett had the world at his feet -- well, at least he had a string of Top Ten singles, highlighted by "Woman, Woman," "Young Girl," "Lady Willpower," "Over You" and "This Girl Is a Woman Now." His powerful emoting, along with the melodramatic productions, made these singles hits; his backing band the... Read More

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner - CD & VIDEO
Artist: Ben Folds Five
Community Score: 6.50

The follow-up to the popular Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five's third LP, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, continues the eclectic and clever songwriting that has become the group's trademark. Like other piano-based rock composers such as Randy Newman and Todd Rundgren, principal songwriter and de facto leader Ben Folds... Read More

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Artist: Ben Folds Five
Community Score: 6.99

The follow-up to the popular Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five's third LP, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, continues the eclectic and clever songwriting that has become the group's trademark. Like other piano-based rock composers such as Randy Newman and Todd Rundgren, principal songwriter and de facto leader Ben Folds... Read More

Singles - SONY GERMANY
Artist: Alison Moyet