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Feb 16, 201267Listeners who come for the trio's Glee-approved breakout ''We Are Young'' will be happy with Some Nights' superior first half.
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Apr 19, 201210Awful.
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Apr 4, 201290The record is a stellar collection of power pop rock songs.
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Mar 6, 201270Rollickingly catchy songs.
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Mar 9, 201270Its slightly peculiar over-reliance on technology only makes it more human, more lovable, and more rock and roll.
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Feb 22, 201295It's the bold, adventurous and grandiose album that the Top 40 charts needs right now.
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May 25, 201240This quickly becomes the stuff of a thousand, middling US soft-rockers and when they're not whining like Maroon 5, they're whining like Blink-182.
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May 24, 201280[The band's] boundless enthusiasm could be teeth-grating even without Stars' overuse of Auto-Tune, but it's hard to dislike such catchy tunes and lyrics that are funny, sincere and oddly moving.
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May 22, 201230Replete with tacky production and recycled ideas, its few merits are stretched to near breaking point.
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May 21, 201220Lyrically vapid, auto-tuned and stadium-aspiring choruses like these, with their hands-in-the-air, mugging-with-your-mates quality, are so lacking in imagination that they make "feel-good" feel really, really bad.
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May 16, 201280It's camp, but it's shadowy. It's epic, but it's introvert. It's highly peculiar, yet hugely commercial. It's one big, beautiful oxymoron.
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Mar 9, 201280The trio has crafted a record that measures up to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy musically and delivers enough emotional charge to power a small town for a month.
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Mar 8, 201240As idiosyncratic top 40 pop--it's a success. But concentrating on it can be a huge burden on the ears.
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Feb 23, 201280Some Nights could be the breakthrough album that propels Fun. to the arenas where their lack of self-restraint will finally make sense.
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Feb 22, 201220Skimming the top, fun. gets credit for its positive attitude and pocket full of catchy melodies, but on the whole, Some Nights remains forgettable.
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Feb 16, 201280The energy and personality which flood out of every melody give this album its own stamp of authority.
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Oct 12, 201240Some Nights is ultimately a confused, turgid tangle of ideas. [Jul 2012, p.100]
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Jun 29, 201260Against all odds, 'Some Nights' is a hoot: huge-sounding, packed with tunes and not lacking in humour.
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Jun 19, 201260For every ELO-meets-Panic!-At-The-Disco pop gem that makes you think Fun. are great, there's also an Auto-Tuned-to-buggery vocal or irksome trumpet riff that simply grates. [26 May 2012, p.53]
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Mar 16, 201250Everything with this band is bigger and more over-over-overdubbed than [Ruess' former band] the Format, which makes fun. about 10 times more annoying. [No. 85, p.54]
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Feb 16, 201270While longtime fans might chide the group for losing some of their quirkiness and streamlining their sound, the band's desire to push the boundaries should be commended. [Mar 2012, p.91]