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What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective - Steinski
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86 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 15 Ratings

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  • Summary: The two-disc set includes the 28-track "Nothing to Fear" on disc two.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Spin
    100
    Barring "Blade Runner," the best pop art by a former adman. [June 2008, p.119]
  2. MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
    100
    Buy it while you can.
  3. Under The Radar
    60
    As a piece of history, What Does It Mean is unbelievable, but as an album, the familiarity and datedness makes it a dull listening. [Summer 2008]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 2 out of 13
  1. ntretyuif.
    10
    This will be in the hip hop hall of fame its classic sample based hip hop which birthed the golden age of hip hop.
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  2. CliftonE.
    5
    Old school hip hop mixtape fodder, mixing is tight, but that alone does not make something "classic". The track with Cronkite reading the news of the Kennedy assassination is TERRIBLE. It is not art, it is turning murder into a song. Horrible. However the disk itself has many funky old school hip hop tracks and mixing, which redeems this collection. There is a reason no U.S. company would release these disks. Poor taste, not art.… Expand
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  3. MikeJ.
    3
    Music for reviewers. They've heard everything there is to hear, and they're fucking bored of all of it. So the only thing they can enjoy is a compilation of everything they've heard, which to them is "unique". To the rest of us it's boring. This is why you have great music like Nine Inch Nails and Tool getting average reviews and this getting praised out of existence.… Expand
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