Beyond a few faster songs ("Paper Jesus," "Falling"), the album gets lost in its own blandness. [13 Aug 2005]

Overall, worth a spin or two, but one hopes there's a better stash left to sample. [16 Dec 2006]

Snow Patrol suddenly sounds like a cross between Goo Goo Dolls and Train.

He talks about the fire he used to possess without rekindling those flames.

Barenaked Ladies play it straight with mixed results...

Paint-by-number grooves, coupled with nonexistent hooks and forgettable melodies, do not result in an album that requires repeated plays; that is unfortunate, since a few Timbaland-produced tracks demand just that.

16 songs of stalwart Stones riffs that almost compensate for generally embarrassing lyrics. [10 Sep 2005]

This song-by-song re-creation of Judy Garland's iconic 1961 Carnegie Hall performance, staged there by Rufus Wainwright in 2006, seems better-suited to a cabaret act.

An uneven collection of synthesized experimentation that relies too heavily on familiar and cliched electronic tricks to sound original.

A gigantic step backward.

While there's not necessarily a bad song to be found, Gough is capable of much more than the pretty yet bland compositions that dominate "One Plus One."

Too often his songs fail to captivate beyond a curiosity factor.

Live has settled too comfortably into the skin of a middle-of-the-road rock act. [17 Jun 2006]

"The Return of Dr. Octagon" suffers from the classic case of "too little, too late."

Things hover uneasily somewhere between wholesale reinvention and mere superstar vanity project. [28 Oct 2006]

Appears and sounds more like a work-in-progress than a finished disc.

In a live setting, Oasis are too often just another band churning out big, bad anthems for the masses.... it remains troubling that a band with so much quality material buried as b-sides or minor album cuts needs to resort to pointless, set-padding covers of Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My," and the Beatles' "Helter Skelter."

Even the few noteworthy moments are lost in the banality of the music. [15 Oct 2005]

The five Brits waste their major talents on midtempo songs like "Everyday" and "Four Letter Word."

His least demanding work ever, steeped in the traditions of pop and rock.

Too many tracks meander aimlessly without finding the perfect beat.

It doesn't always make for an enjoyable listening experience, on or off the dancefloor.

The lyrics seem ripped from a teenager's journal, and his regular-guy vocals can't make them compelling.

While he is certainly an innovative producer, that originality fails to translate on "In My Mind."

In general, Federline enunciates well. [11 Nov 2006]

Not every album can be a tour de force, but Keenan is normally much better than this even on his worst days.

A baker's dozen's worth of featherlight ditties that range in quality from guilty pleasures to already-dated clunkers.

It is P.O.D.'s lyrics, which are stuck in adolescent neutral, that doom "Testify" to feeling like a relic. [28 Jan 2006]