★★★★★
"Inside My Head" is not a new studio album from vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Richard Marx, but a kind of compilation, featuring 8 tracks from his three latest website-only releases ("Emotional Remains", "Sundown" and "Stories To Tell"), the track "Always On Your Mind" (known from the "Duo" album on which Marx co-operated with Vertical Horizon's Matt Scannell) and 4 brand-new tracks: "Wouldn't Let Me Love You", "Like Heaven", "All Over Me" and "Scars"...
- www.rockreport.be
2012-07-02
★★★★★
In 1992, Richard Marx went top 10 with "Hazard," an oddly spookyflamenco-rock ballad about a riverside murder. If Marx had built onthe risks he took with that unusual hit, his new Paid Vacation(Capitol) could've been something more than the pleasant butundistinguished rock it is. Divided evenly into airy croons that ape Bryan Adams and musculargrowls with a galloping beat, Marx's music is by no means original("The Way She ) Loves Me" might as well be Foreigner doing BonnieRaitt)...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
He may be no threat to James Brown, but Richard Marx does make an occasionally convincing soul man on his fifth album, Flesh and Bone. "Touch of Heaven" slow-burns as sexily as any bump-and-grinder from one of R&B;'s reigning Romeos. But the '80s relic can't help lapsing into that decade's cheesy hallmarks: MOR arrangements, clenched-teeth vocals, and cliches like, well, "flesh and bone."
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Richard Marx would have usbelieve that his third album is a risk-taking proposition. Certainly,Rush Street is more R&B-; influenced and "from the hip" than theglutinously imploring lite rock that made his first seven singles gotop five. Throughout Rush Street, Marx strives to let down his hair.He piles on palpitating slap bass along with frothy solos from hissquad of session guitarists, while his histrionic vocals aspire toMichael Jackson's falsetto...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Richard Marx has exactly the right skills to put together a professionally crafted rock & roll album: He's a good guitarist and a great singer, and he has a knack for the sort of raucous melodies mainstream rockers adore...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Richard Marx's self-titled debut album was a finely crafted record of mainstream pop/rock. Marx understood how the melodies of up-tempo rockers like "Don't Mean Nothin'" are driven by thick power chords, and how arrangements are as important as melody in ballads like "Hold On to the Nights." Filled with carefully constructed radio-ready tracks, it was no surprise that the album became a huge hit.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
With 1993's Paid Vacation, Richard Marx's career was steered from more rock-leaning territory to the softer and friendlier landscape of adult contemporary, and the resulting album was much warmer and organic than his previous releases, most notably 1991's dark and brooding Rush Street...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Richard Marx's 1991 release, Rush Street, is a varied album that was billed as "the dark side of Richard Marx," and was also his last true rock & roll album (subsequent releases found him venturing almost exclusively into the adult contemporary domain). Rush Street explores different musical territories, with almost each song emerging as a cautionary tale in some form or another...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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