Miscellaneous Quotes about Robin Lane

"Lane's insights are everyday but not banal. They're delivered with the authority of a lived-in life and the kind of perpetual disillusionment that manages to make way for new illusions."
- Rolling Stone

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"The feeling the music (Robin Lane and The Chartbusters) gives off is that of unrelieved foreboding, backed up by passion blindly seeking an object-any object...Robin Lane's mission...is to make life real. The terror that motivates her music is rendered palpable; so is hope; so is hope abandoned."
- Greil Marcus

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"Robin Lane & the Chartbusters is given sharp distinctiveness by the vocals of the leader, whose dark, strong-but-supple voice can be ominous, desperately tender, and cuttingly illuminating. Robin is always intriguing because her sound suggests even more than the lyrics say."
- Nat Hentoff

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"Those mood swings from bitterness to tenderness, have always been part of Lane's songs and she still has a way with an emotionally grabbing tune."
- Brett Milano, The Boston Globe

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"Robin Lane sounds for all the world like Kitty Welles traveling down Highway 61 Revisited"
- Kit Rachlis

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"Though Blondie's Deborah Harry and the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde have had more hits and better press, Robin Lane looms as the most talented female artist to come out of New Wave rock."
- Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post