But at American, Rick Rubin has done a good job of turning him into an album artist. As with Haggard's latest this has been made possible by no longer looking at the singles chart for their names. Coming off the awful Pop and Zooropa , anything would be a plus, and thankfully this is it. Reining in their concepts this is an album of songs. There'll be enough hits to make the future Greatest Hits album a landmark of Pop cheese.
Instant pop hits today.
The latest Now is stronger than the latest Totally. The former rescues stray singles from Janet Jackson, Bbmak and Nine Days from their mediocre albums. While the latter has duff stuff from Third Eye Blind and The Coors. Still, all those that made fun of those K-Tel packages from the 70's should now apologize. This is the state of Top 40 and the record business today.