[Review] Paul Carrack: Nightbird (1980)
Late the face of Ace, Carrack tests his wings with this tuneful collection of blue-eyed soul songs.
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[Review] Squeeze: East Side Story (1981)
I’m not sure that even The Beatles ever made an album this good.
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[Review] Nick Lowe: Nick the Knife (1982)
A dozen new ditties from the sharp mind of Nick Lowe.
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[Review] Paul Carrack: Suburban Voodoo (1982)
The most tempting of his solo albums, featuring the crew from Nick the Knife.
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Paul Carrack: “I Need You” (1982)
The Top 40 followup to Carrack’s spotlight moment on Squeeze’s “Tempted.”
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[Review] Nick Lowe: The Abominable Showman (1983)
Even sharper than his last album, mixing catchy melodies with clever wordplay and the usual Lowe highlights.
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Mike + The Mechanics (1985)
Mike Rutherford tinkers with the new Genesis sound and creates an album tailor-made for the pop charts.
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[Review] Paul Carrack: One Good Reason (1987)
Outside of one reasonably good song, Carrack is running on fumes.
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[Review] Mike + The Mechanics: Living Years (1988)
The same crew returns for a second finely tuned album of adult pop.
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[Review] Squeeze: Ridiculous (1995)
Another fantastic album that concedes nothing to England’s new generation of pop stars (Blur, Oasis, etc.).
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