The Block
- New Kids on the Block
- Band Name: New Kids on the Block
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Sep 2, 2008
- Summary: Fourteen years since their last studio record, the Kids are back with their newest album on the Interscope label.
- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 12
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Mixed: 9 out of 12
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Negative: 2 out of 12
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Believe it or not, though, they've got the right stuff.
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60Surprisingly, it's a light and catchy bunch of convincing hip-hop- and R&B-influenced Timberlake-esque club pop.
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The problem facing New Kids on the Block on their 2008 reunion The Block is the same one they had on their last album, 1994's "Face the Music": the quintet are no longer kids and don't quite know how to be adults.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 33
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Mixed: 1 out of 33
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Negative: 3 out of 33
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[Anonymous]10
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Jerome5The 100 rating by the LA Times guy is legit. He gave it 4/4 stars. That being said, he's definitely a shill or trying to earn ironic cred.
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SeanP.2Believe it or not, the LA Times really is a crappy newspaper. I mean it. I used to read it.
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