Spin's Scores
- Music
For 4,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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: | Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 | |
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| Lowest review score: | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned |
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Positive: 3,099 out of 4305
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Mixed: 1,151 out of 4305
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Negative: 55 out of 4305
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She can sound brand-new and busted-down in the same verse, and she sings like a guitar player. [Oct 2004, p.120]- Spin
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This album would be better without Scott screaming about absolute nonsense. [Sep 2004, p.119]- Spin
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They're Old Schooled enough to ace history, but the science they drop is strictly C+. [Sep 2004, p.120]- Spin
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Most of Fortune's tunes revolve around love and politics, which McArdle nails with a combination of wit, cynicism and sorrow. [Nov 2004, p.117]- Spin
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Big-name cameos... can't disguise the fact that this is one more rote chapter in the infamous Queensbridge duo's twilight. [Oct 2004, p.120]- Spin
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Gruff stuff... A few rockers lighten the load, but not by much. [Sep 2004, p.120]- Spin
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Imagine if N.E.R.D... were from France and used to make house music before going soft rock. [Aug 2004, p.108]- Spin
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One of the best psych-rock records of our young century. [Sep 2004, p.117]- Spin
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Shift[s] between singer/songwriter Rhett Miller's heartrending country and mojo-fueled power pop. [Sep 2004, p.120]- Spin
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Tight, upbeat pop-punk songs reminiscent of early Elastica and late Donnas. [Jul 2004, p.110]- Spin
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Their bread and butter is still exuberantly juvenile pessimism. [Aug 2004, p.107]- Spin
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With Black Thought carrying the weight, the record buckles. [Aug 2004, p.101]- Spin
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If The Cure feels like a recapitulation of the band's career, it's because they've recorded songs very much like these before. [Aug 2004, p.103]- Spin
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They all sound like pop songs... yet they all feel like country songs. [Aug 2004, p.107]- Spin
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There are flashes of Yankee's shimmer on Ghost, but the album is more elusive, more disjointed. [Jul 2004, p.103]- Spin
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This is the work of noise nerds bent on finding beauty where others see nothing but a tangled mess. [Jul 2004, p.110]- Spin
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A richly rewarding passage through the last five decades of American music history. [Aug 2005, p.99]- Spin
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An atavistic orgy of recycled riffs and lifelong obsessions. [Sep 2004, p.120]- Spin
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Like running full-tilt through a fun house with smoke machines, tinsel-covered ceilings and a super-size disco ball. [Aug 2004, p.108]- Spin
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A strangely enervated Sonic Youth record, one that exchanges Murray Street's golden-years vigor for a sad sense of duty. [Jul 2004, p.108]- Spin
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Good records from the Descendents and Bad Religion in one year? Joe Strummer's ghost must be keeping close watch. [Jul 2004, p.110]- Spin
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Lets you better appreciate his knack for weaving glorious pop songs out of change-ups and mixed signals. [Jul 2004, p.109]- Spin
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The rubbed-rawness of Uh Huh Her might seem like backpedaling. But the best tracks use the pleasure principles of Stories to update her old approach. [Jun 2004, p.101]- Spin