Saturday Morning: Cartoon’s Greatest Hits – Review March 1, 1996 While most of the covers of Saturday morning television songs are fun to listen to, I prefer the originals. But the packaging is magnificent and informative.
Step Right Up: Songs of Tom Waits – Review December 1, 1995 Without Waits’ grizzled vocals and persona, most of these songs end up sounding like anything else by the bands performing them.
Violent Femmes – New Times – Review October 1, 1994 We heard it all ten years ago, except back then it seemed vital, not a virtually soulless paint-by-numbers pastiche.