Album Reviews
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: Singles +
This collection starts deeper and more interesting than its title would lead one to expect, and for 29 of its 45 songs, it's also wonderfully enjoyable.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: Reminiscing/Showcase
Reminiscing is a very solid album, and was essential to the maintaining of Holly's memory. Showcase, is a slightly less consistent record overall, but has some killer rock & roll tracks.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: Only the Love Songs
Buddy singing on standouts like "Raining in My Heart," "True Love Ways," and "Heartbeat," his vintage master recordings augmented with the barber shop-style backing vocals of the Picks.
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All Music Guide: Various: Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly)
Though it is clear the artists on the tribute are sincere in their affection for Holly, their covers add nothing to the original versions.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: Holly in the Hills/Giant
It's all a lot of fun to hear and enjoyable enough, if not a serious Holly release, and it's never sounded better.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: From the Original Master Tapes
This remains the best single-disc collection of Buddy Holly's music, featuring 20 of his biggest hits.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: Greatest Hits [Remaster]
Greatest Hits is one of the most thorough single-disc collections ever assembled on Holly and for audiophiles, it may be worth the extra money.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: 20th Century Masters
Apart from the presumptuous title, 20th Century Masters — The Millennium Collection turns out to be a very good budget-line series.
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Hollyville U.K.: That'll Be The Day
Discouraged but not beaten,within weeks of this final session Buddy was making plans to go to Clovis, New Mexico to see if Norman Petty could bring success!
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The Scotsman: Return of the sun king
Buddy Holly is a slightly more contentious inclusion, even if he did live fast, die young and leave a geeky-looking corpse.
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Nashville's finest celebrating a seminal influence in the best way they know how.
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All Music Guide: Review: American Pie
The album has an overall elegiac quality that makes it sound like a final statement. After all, if the music has died, what else is there to say?
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: The "Chirping" Crickets [Remaster]
As a piece of self-generated rock & roll, The "Chirping" Crickets was amazingly close to a personalized artistic "statement," in a way that Presley's RCA albums could never be.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: The Great Buddy Holly
This is a fun record, if not really representative of Holly's fully developed style, and ought to interest not only his fans, but also anyone who wants to learn a little more about the early days of the rock & roll boom.
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PopMatters: Buddy Holly and The Crickets: The "Chirping" Crickets
Their songs transcend any and all modern assessments, as they form the very foundation for the phenomenon of rock and roll.
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PopMatters: Buddy Holly: Reminiscing
Reminiscing demonstrates how successful a musician can be. Although the individual tracks are undoubtedly better in their original form, the album itself is probably the starting point of modern rock music.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: The Buddy Holly Collection
Absolutely necessary for anybody who loves American music of the 20th century.
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All Music Guide: Buddy Holly: That'll Be the Day/Remember
It is the first 11 songs here, from That'll Be the Day, that make this CD an important release, very close to essential.
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