Rockin' Berries
Artist: The Rockin' Berries
Greatest Hits
Artist: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Community Score: 8.80

For over 20 years, Bob Seger was one of the best mainstream rock & rollers in America, developing a distinctive body of honest, hard-rocking songs. More songs that can be put on this single-disc set, unfortunately. While many of Seger's trademarks are here -- "Turn the Page," "Old Time Rock & Roll," "Night Moves" -- there is no "Rock and Roll... Read More

Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones 1971-1993
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Community Score: 6.20

Released in 1994 to coincide with the Stones' catalog moving to Virgin Records, as well as the accompanying remastering of their Rolling Stone Records catalog (1971's Sticky Fingers through 1989's Steel Wheels -- actually 1991's Flashpoint, which is the last Rolling Stones Records release, but isn't featured here), Jump Back supplants Rewind as... Read More

Wild Wood
Artist: Paul Weller
Community Score: 9.75

Paul Weller deservedly regained his status as the Modfather with his second solo album, Wild Wood. Actually, the album is only tangentially related to mod, since Weller picks up on the classicism of his debut, adding heavy elements of pastoral British folk and Traffic-styled trippiness. Add to that a yearning introspection and a clean production... Read More

Shoes for Industry! The Best of the Firesign Theatre
Artist: Firesign Theatre

Shoes for Industry! The Best of the Firesign Theatre is a terrific double-disc, 31-track collection of the comedy troupe's best-loved routines, including "Temporarily Humbolt County," "I Was a Cock-Teaser for Roosterama, " "Further Adventures of Nick Danger, " "Napalmolive, " "Not Quite the Solution He Expected, " "Communist Love Song" and... Read More

Human Wheels
Artist: John Mellencamp
Community Score: 9.33

Following the stripped-down rock & roll of Whenever We Wanted, the somber Human Wheels comes as a bit of shock. Throughout his mid-'80s peak, John Mellencamp infused his best work with despair, but he never has sounded as beaten and broken as he does on Human Wheels. It's not just that the record sounds murky and bleak, but his singing is weary... Read More

From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters
Artist: Elvis Presley
Community Score: 9.00

Since The King of Rock 'n' Roll was the complete '50s masters, it was easy to assume that its five-disc '60s sequel, From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters, rounded up all the masters from that decade, which is simply not the case. The producers deliberately avoided the soundtracks to Elvis' movies, which perhaps makes... Read More

Are You Gonna Go My Way
Artist: Lenny Kravitz
Community Score: 7.09

The cover indicates that Are You Gonna Go My Way is Lenny Kravitz's bid for rock stardom. Designed in the style of an early-'70s record, it features Kravitz in hippie clothing, apparently exposing himself to a photographer -- in other words, he's a dangerously sexy counterculture rebel. That may have been true in 1970, but in 1993, he simply... Read More

Miracle
Artist: Willy DeVille

The folks at Australia's Raven label have given the world a gem of a reissue in Willy DeVille's first solo offering, Miracle. Recorded for A&M, Miracle placed DeVille outside the context of his stellar backing band for the first time. And while it's true the music here is not radically different compositionally -- DeVille wrote most of the songs... Read More