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For 1,854 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Together Through Life
Lowest review score: 10 Folker
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 957 out of 1854
  2. Mixed: 862 out of 1854
  3. Negative: 35 out of 1854
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Frank Black Francis
    Hearing "Cactus" and "Subbacultcha" transformed into droning ambient jazz is upsetting, yet somehow perfect for this listen-once-and-destroy disc. [Dec 2004, p.134]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Songs For Patriots
    Eitzel sounds like he's finally emerging from the murk. [Nov 2004, p.128]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    New Danger
    This is the hip-hop equivalent of an all-stops pulled, Oscar-ready performance: mushily sentimental, self-righteously indignant and constantly in your face. [Nov 2004, p.138]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    New Roman Times
    Moves seamlessly from ironic cock-rock and steel guitar-kissed hymns to crisply melodic pop and full-on hippie freakouts. [Oct 2004, p.116]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chuck
    The ceaselessly blistering tone does get overbearing. [Nov 2004, p.145]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No Cities Left
    Neither for the faint of heart, nor for those allergic to pretentiousness. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.103]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Palookaville
    Cook's dance music has seen better days. [Oct 2004, p.115]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Around The Sun
    R.E.M.'s recent albums have increasingly resembled singer-songwriter records. Around The Sun is much the best of the last three... because the tunes are better. [Nov 2004, p.140]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hidden Vagenda
    Dawson tunefully balances girlish zeal with womanly maturity. [Nov 2004, p.132]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spooked
    The acoustic Spooked surveys post-millennial life. [Nov 2004, p.135]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Real Gone
    Waits returns to spare storytelling. [Oct 2004, p.130]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Grind Date
    Dulcet R&B hooks are spoonfuls of sugar that make De La catchy enough for a new generation of fans. [Nov 2004, p.132]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Chronicles Of Life And Death
    Welcome to tonight's Very Special Episode of pop-punk. [Nov 2004, p.130]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pressure Chief
    The hipster thrills are fading. [Oct 2004, p.116]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Love And Death
    They've given up on ugliness for its own sake, trading it in for prettiness, which allows McCracken to rest his throat. [Oct 2004, p.128]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mind Body & Soul
    Split[s] the difference between guaranteed hook appeal and a decent simulation of emotional truth. [Oct 2004, p.129]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Damage
    As limp as a broken guitar string. [Oct 2004, p.114]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Travistan
    At worst, the wordy Travistan borders on hectoring... At his danceable best, Morrison ingeniously manifests his big concepts and even bigger heart. [Nov 2004, p.138]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nancy Sinatra
    She's a poised pop queen, ready to be worshiped once again. [Nov 2004, p.141]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Tiger Dancing
    These B-boys are as forward-thinking as they get. [Oct 2004, p.122]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Antics
    Less lugubrious and more melodic than [Bright Lights], but the improvement is marginal. [Oct 2004, p.119]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shangri-la
    Like [J.J.] Cale, Knopfler prefers murmuring to emoting while threading fancy little guitar figures through songs that can't decide whether to shuffle into the haze or nod off. [Nov 2004, p.136]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SMiLE
    Despite Wilson's wrecked voice, it's surprisingly grand and moving. [Nov 2004, p.146]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Struggle
    There's little unity of sound, but more than enough passion and unity of purpose. [Oct 2004, p.125]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Last Exit
    Presents a rarity--a genuinely new sound. [Nov 2004, p.136]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night On Fire
    Immediately transforms VHS or Beta from disco revivalists into one of rock's best new bands. [Oct 2004, p.130]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Week
    Problem is, [her] words are rarely about anything but her own dexterity. [Oct 2004, p.122]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Delivery Man
    It's Costello at his most emotionally direct. [Oct 2004, p.118]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go
    Freak[s] out thoughtfully. [Oct 2004, p.129]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American Idiot
    Concept or not, American Idiot is still decent fodder for a mosh pit, a luagh and a sob session. [Nov 2004, p.136]
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