Classic Rock Magazine's Scores

  • Music
For 2,212 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963
Lowest review score: 20 What About Now
Score distribution:
2212 music reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Perhaps not the new studio recording some were hoping for, but a fascinating and compelling deep dive into Young’s past. [Mar 2024, p.80]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    All nine studio albums are covered, although the sequencing defies logic. [Dec 2023, p.85]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    i/o
    Gabriel’s most consistent and cohesive post-80s record and the most philosophical of his life. [Jan 2024, p.78]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The roaring 20s has finally arrived. [Dec 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now up to seven discs with live set, it's even harder to resist. [Dec 2023, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Complete Budokan 1978 is hardly likely to convert Dylan doubters, but it's an interesting curio all the same. [Dec 2023, p.83]
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Maintains In//Parallel's intrinsic style and pan-genre forward momentum, a seamless, pop-literate/prog-friendly fusion positively peppered with an abundance of barbed hooks. [Dec 2023, p.74]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An urgent half-hour adrenaline surge that will lodge itself in your brain after just one listen. Impressive. [Dec 2023, p.73]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultimately a completist's set. [Dec 2023, p.84]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A triumph. [Dec 2023, p.76]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A monumentally hideous, yet strangely glorious album. Some might say it goes up to 11... [Dec 2023, p.72]
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finley applies versatile pipes and stinging licks to extraordinary songs of broad experience. [Dec 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    'Zingers exhibit a whole lotta heart. But sometimes heart alone's not enough. [Dec 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hard Light works so well because rather than cling on to relevance during the wilderness years, Drop Nineteen have simply waited and let the world catch up with them. [Dec 2023, p.77]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bare-chested canyon rock is present and correct, but so too is much introspection, melancholia, hurt and hope. [Dec 2023, p.74]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some nifty tricks - mashing their own Lonely In Your Nightmare into Rick James's Super Freak, for example - but not enough treat. [Dec 2023, p.74]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, Morrison makes old songs sound new and brings the enthusiasm of a teenager to an old man’s record. [Dec 2023, p.78]
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now And Then, the last Beatles song has finally arrived, and it’s more than worth the wait.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Devoid of cynicism or sarcasm, The Silver Cord - Extended Mix revels in the sheer euphoria of unashamed hedonism. [Nov 2023, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The mood varies across the record. [Nov 2023, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    He's still creating an introspective mood, even if the threat of hardcore eruption seems to bubble under the surface. [Nov 2023, p.78]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It is an embarrassment of riches, not least the variety of exceptional live material. [Nov 2023, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's way more Breeders-reminiscent 90s alt. meat on the bones. [Nov 2023, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Encapsulates shoegaze, garage, grunge, self-analytical Gen Z catharsis and off-the-leash, anything-goes, fourth-album-itch experimentation, yet still retains its key pop core. [Nov 2023, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If you've followed his career the evolution makes perfect sense. .... Roll on Vol.3. [Nov 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Art Dealers hums with life, its garage rock'n'soul bolstered by female backing vocals straight from the Phil Spector school. [Nov 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s the Medicine we need, and it works best when they up the dosage. [Nov 2023, p.77]
    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Ballad Of Spook And Mercy sounds like Kill Bill spliced with From Dusk Til Dawn, while piano lament More Than Death closes the story drenched in blood, regret and a little romantic redemption. [Nov 2023, p.79]
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A heartfelt hymn to a national treasure, this is the acceptable face of patriotism, the evergreen sound of England's dreaming. [Oct 2023, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It’s a 21st-century record for a 21st-century audience that, with an old-school 48-minute duration, only ever leaves the listener hungry for more.