Richard Marx - Repeat Offender CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

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. Marx has learned all the lessons of Seventies-style hard rock (like how to keep the guitar sound big without being overbearing); he knows that every chorus should feature at least one harmony vocal and tries to keep his rhythm section swinging (though he draws the line at anything funkier than a "Brown Sugar" beat). In short, he's as safe and likable as Eighties rockers come.

Maybe that's why Repeat Offender seems disappointing. It isn't that the album is unlistenable,
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