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All Jacked Up - Gretchen Wilson
Metascore
70 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    100
    Wilson delivers a knockout as she serves up enough of the rowdy tunes to keep the jukebox pumping most of the night - most powered by a lively mix of ringing guitars, spunky fiddles and powerful backbeat. [25 Sep 2005]
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    Sticks to the debut's ballads-plus-bar-anthems blueprint while revealing a broader range. [30 Sep 2005, p.91]
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  3. Billboard
    90
    Beyond the bombast, Wilson has personality and soul to burn, and her impact on country music is going to be felt for many albums to come, starting here. [1 Oct 2005]
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  4. Stylus Magazine
    83
    At this point, Wilson looks like the most important new artist to hit country music since the Dixie Chicks.
  5. Blender
    80
    It's fed-up and proud at the same time, a kind of Desperate Housewives meets Trailer Fabulous. [Oct 2005, p.144]
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  6. All Music Guide
    80
    While Wilson's always refreshingly brash as a vocalist, the arrangements are only satisfactory.
  7. The New York Times
    70
    She's not as aggressive and unguarded as she was on her debut. Yet even toned down, her persona has the spunk that country needs.
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  8. Village Voice
    60
    Yeah, Jacked contains a few shadowy rewrites of Here for the Party tunes, but the players this time are more in sync with the star--the music is louder, beerier.
  9. PopMatters
    60
    Unfortunately, All Jacked Up is everything you might expect from a hurried follow-up to a record setting debut. Shunning ambition, it aims for consolidation.
  10. Spin
    58
    What passed for refreshing last year is merely rote here. [Dec 2005, p.105]
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  11. Rolling Stone
    40
    A mediocre follow-up with nothing as great as "Redneck Woman" or "Here for the Party."
  12. Paste Magazine
    40
    Half the album [is] mired in embarrassing heartland cliches. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.96]
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  13. Slant Magazine
    20
    What All Jacked Up ultimately confirms... is that Wilson is a one-trick pony whose trick will only impress those with exceedingly low expectations.
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5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 4 out of 12
  1. PatrickD
    6
    I loved "Here for the Party" despite 8 songs, but this was pretty much the same all through. I like #1 and #12. The rest mostly sound funny or the same. And "All Jacked Up" sounds like "Redneck Woman" at parts, but it's still good.… Full Review »
  2. SarahJ
    0
    This album is by far worse than her first one and should have an R rating on it.
  3. PriscillaN
    10
    She rocks
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