★★★★★
For this album 'red rocker' Sammy Hagar has teamed up with a lot of legendary rock, pop, country & blues artists, such as Taj Mahal, Bill Church, Denny Carmassi, Neal Schon, Chad Smith, Michael Anthony, Kid Rock, Joe Satriani, Ronnie Dunn, Toby Keith, Nancy Wilson & Mickey Hart ... to name but a few. An impressive list, indeed, but the collection of new songs and unexpected covers can't convince me, because it's just too diverse and not especially meant for heavy rock lovers...
- www.rockreport.be
2013-10-08
★★★★★
Sound: It's hard to not be a little jolted after listening to the title track on Sammy Hagar's latest solo record Cosmic Universal Fashion. That particular song, as the name might suggest, is a little out there and unearthly in comparison to what the former Van Halen frontman has delivered in the past. But fans of Hagar's work from the 70s through the early 2000s should not fear -- with the exception of "Cosmic Universal Fashion," the rest of the CD is rock and roll all the way...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
In the days before the perma-permed guitarist/Van Halen mindfrontman was probed aliens (allegedly), he rode the wave of his Montrose success with a solo outfit that included his former group's bassist Bill Church, Heart drummer Denny Carmassi, and Boston guitarist Gary Pihl. You'd expect a superior performance and, in Encino, California, they cranked out an eight-song highlights set, later released with no overdubs...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
Sound: This is a collection of music that Sammy really couldn't get away with in the ranks of Van Halen. Many of the songs are mellow, some lean almost toward a spoken word-type sond. There is a lot of blues present, such as the acoustic guitar picking in "Little White Lie", the album's opening track...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2011-05-10
★★★★★
Sound: Some of the songs sound like love songs put through distorted guitars, rather than acoustic guitars. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it's not. It really depends on what mood you're in. Not all the songs deal with love, however. "Heavy Metal", "Mas Tequila", and "I Can't Drive 55" are probably the farthest thing from love songs that you're going to get. Three of the tracks are from soundtracks, and it sure beats buying those three CD's just to get the Sammy Hagar songs...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2011-05-10
★★★★★
I hope when I'm four years away from retirement age I still have the energy as Sammy Hagar. His career spans forty plus years, but Mr. Hagar is probably most remembered for two things: the highway anthem, 'I Can't Drive 55' in his early solo career and replacing the infamous first lead singer of Van Halen in 1985. As careers go, that gig was effortlessly short. Hagar returned to solo work with albums in 1987 and 1997...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
If nothing else, this 20-track overview of lunk-headed hard rock proves definitively that Sammy Hagar has mastered the art of party anthems that just aren't fun. The sometime Van Halen singer sums up his three-decade solo career in the 1981 track "There's Only One Way to Rock," because, well, it's clear he only knows one way to rock...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Sammy Hagar isn't all tequila and sunburns on his first solo disc
in eight years: This new set kicks off with a lightly industrial
collaboration with young Iraqi songwriter Steven Lost that finds
him reviving the "Right Now" approach to addressing deeper issues
than the nation's unreasonable speed limits...
- www.billboard.com
2009-06-12
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