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For 4,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971
Lowest review score: 0 They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,099 out of 4305
  2. Mixed: 1,151 out of 4305
  3. Negative: 55 out of 4305
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
    Em is largely in defense mode; it’s a self-consciousness that leans closer to stagnation than catharsis.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pull The Pin
    Solid and well crafted. [Nov 2007, p.135]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Earth To The Dandy Warhols
    Singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor has an undeniable way with a sticky-sweet hook -- too bad most of them are buried in self-indulgent sludge.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Weird Revolution
    At its best, Weird Revolution is danceable and degenerate... It's a tight package, but the holes start to show on the title track... [Oct 2001, p.132]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A.K.A.
    Much of A.K.A. is still mawkish, midtempo melodrama that does too much to accentuate J. Lo's tunelessness.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Morning Revival
    There are a few clunky dance tracks... but it's Madden's search for love in the L.A. wasteland that gives Revival a certain charm. [Mar 2007, p.86]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Hell in a Handbasket
    It's "disappointing" only because it isn't dreadful in funnier, more interesting ways.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Hannicap Circus
    Songs like the predictably ribald "Porno Bitches" are little more than by-the-numbers, behind-the-music tracks. [Jul 2005, p.104]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Melodia
    Back from the brink of a long-promised implosion, the Vines sound like a band renewed on their first album since being booted from Capitol following dismal sales of 2006's muddled "Vision Valley."
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Entrance Band
    This throwbackin’ threesome--an expanded version of frontman Guy Blakeslee’s subdued solo outing under the name Entrance--kills it when they stick to the classic power-trio formula.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    Both a big relief and a mild disappointment. [Mar 2007, p.90]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Rebirth Of Venus
    Amid spoken-word interludes and I'd-like- to-buy-the-world-a-Coke-style choirs, only Lee's innate melodic gift saves him from total embarrassment.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Memories: Do Not Open
    Whether the album’s title is a plea or a warning does not matter, as the effect is the same: The Chainsmokers have one song, and if you don’t want to hear 12 versions of it, please do not un-click the latch holding this box closed.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Scream
    Produced with a heavy hand by Timbaland, the third solo album from ex-Soundgarden and Audioslave singer Chris Cornell is strangely appealing in its elaborately empty efficiency.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Somethin' 'Bout Kreay
    Kreay indulges the full breadth of her influences, turning Somethin into a series of wan genre studies.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hoodstar
    The most memorable songs on his third album are decidedly buzz killers. [Oct 2006, p.96]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Super Collider
    One possible surprise is how little of Super Collider actually thrashes.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rain In England
    Rain in England, a therapy-session testimony that sounds like Soulja Boy having a Damascus moment in the champagne room over a beatless synth tide--is his least accessible.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Lively Mind
    These thumping, Ibiza-inflected excursions into pop and R&B aren't quite as catchy [as "Starry Eyed Surprise"]. [Jun 2006, p.83]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Liz Phair
    Boilerplate MOR.... But what Liz Phair delivers is authenticity. [Jul 2003, p.107]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Graffiti
    The album's most striking moment is "Fallin' Down." Over a ominous guitar riff, the 20-year-old sings, "It's getting heavy / I think I'm getting ready to break down." It's the most honest moment of his short career. The kid sure needs a vacation.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    BAYTL
    There is Michael Jackson bad, there is Ed Wood bad, and then there is BAYTL, a union so unholy that it cries out for a show on Bravo.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shwayze
    The 23-year-old Malibu rapper's debut is as shallow as a spray-on tan; it's stocked with bro'd-out, giggly rhymes about 420-filled nights and T&A aplenty over lazy, midtempo beats from producer/reality-show rocker Cisco Adler.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fortune
    The album's most compelling sounds get saddled with songs either forgettable ("Trumpet Lights") or regrettable ("Mirage," a sinuous reggae fusion that's Nas-boosted but unnecessarily nasty).
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Life On Display
    These hammerheads still sound like the touring company of Grunge-a-Mania. [Jan 2004, p.100]
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slick Dogs And Ponies
    Here they effectively marry T. Rex's trash-glam melodicism to a relentless blue-eyed funk beat. [Feb 2008, p.95]
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Nine Track Mind
    The most standout feature of Nine Track Mind might be its rhythmic consistency, an exercise in deceleration.... inoffensive dross.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Weekends of Sound
    764-Hero faithfully, almost methodically practices the dying art of melodic rock songs with no particular point to them.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Feeler
    You've been touring nonstop in support of your first new album in seven years. What do you do next? If you're Texas-based scrungers Toadies, you redo your unreleased second album, recorded in 1997 and rejected by Interscope, presumably for lacking another "Possum Kingdom," which drove their debut Rubberneck to platinum sales.
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