Classic Rock Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 2,212 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
| Highest review score: | Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 | |
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| Lowest review score: | What About Now |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,863 out of 2212
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Mixed: 338 out of 2212
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Negative: 11 out of 2212
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Punk can be a relative term, especially when applied to California. In comparison to The Pogues, Flogging Molly sound more like The Nolans. In fact, the Saw Doctors are nearer the mark. But all their rousing expat energy, best heard on The Hand Of John L Sullivan, can’t disguise a controlled finesse.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2017
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Inspired song choices, delivered with real passion. [Mar 2026, p.78]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Big Mess is dense and discordant and wilfully ugly at times, but also a richly original and impressively ambitious musical response to a nightmarish pandemic. [Jul 2021, p.84]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Starcatcher feels like their most consistent and complete record yet. [Aug 2023, p.74]- Classic Rock Magazine
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If you fancy being barked at by a grizzled campaigner about pesticides and sea pollution over three-chord sludge and ragged-glorious guitars, then you’ll love what Young and co cook up here. If not, stick to Harvest.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 15, 2015
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It turns out these eternal survivors have gone out with neither a whimper nor a snarl. [Apr 2026, p.76]- Classic Rock Magazine
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There's a delicious, deliberate irony to this atheist band putting their own 100mph spin on carols. [Jan 2014, p.115]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's short--11 tracks over in less than 39 minutes--but genuinely sweet. [Dec 2019, p.80]- Classic Rock Magazine
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This is a promising first step into a new era. [May 2018, p.91]- Classic Rock Magazine
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The songs are wrought elaborately enough.... Yet this album seems carefully calibrated not to disappoint the conservative fan.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Oct 28, 2015
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A Brock-sung acoustic setting of We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago is a highlight, but the less said about how the massed saxes treat Down Through The Night the better. [Sep 2018, p.91]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's to Gill's credit that the band have retained their venom, spitting out terse rhythms and thick squirts of electronica. [Apr 2015, p.95]- Classic Rock Magazine
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A classy, slick, impeccably executed album of covers, but a disappointing successor to US No. 1 Before This World. [May 2020, p.83]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Super-smooth strings, bluesy stomps and immense righteousness are crammed into this varied, if oddly disparate selection. [Feb 2015, p.98]- Classic Rock Magazine
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The title track about wanting to know more about your partner, is strong enough to rise above the clichés, but some others are not so fortunate. [Jun 2022, p.79]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Danzig mostly avoids the obvious greatest hits, favouring instead reverb-heavy lo-fi treatments that faithfully reference the originals without shooting for all-out mimicry. [Summer 2020, p.85]- Classic Rock Magazine
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There's a familiarity to much of the material which, while not quite formulaic, does sometimes hint at self-reference, brazenly so on Tears Don't Fall (Part 2). [Mar 2013, p.97]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Acoustic is a consistent collection that works best when the songs are strongest, and it’s movingly effective on the final track, a cover of Richard Hawley’s Long Black Train.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Nov 7, 2016
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She can sound like Stevie Nicks lost at the Whitby goth weekender. Otherwise, as always, Stina's vexations are our pleasure. [Jul 2019, p.81]- Classic Rock Magazine
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The album tapers off towards the end, but this still a likeable - albeit slight - confection. [Oct 2024, p.77]- Classic Rock Magazine
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If you've been yearning for the days when David Draiman shrieked like a nu-metal chimpanzee-cum-wolverine, then Divisive is the album for you. [Dec 2022, p.75]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Some of his catchiest tracks of recent years offset the records indulgences. [May 2026, p.79]- Classic Rock Magazine
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An assured piece of reach-for-the-stars hard rock, sure to thrive live.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Sep 28, 2015
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This House Is Not For Sale is no masterpiece, and while the punchy title track sonically nods to their heyday, most of it is made up of by-numbers pop.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Oct 28, 2016
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