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For 509 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score:
Rumours [35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Dancing Backward in High Heels
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 358 out of 509
  2. Mixed: 147 out of 509
  3. Negative: 4 out of 509
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    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 30
    Elsie
    Elsie sounds like a step down from his Gaslight Anthem fare, lacking the emotional and regional details that make that band's songs sound so lived in.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 20
    Dancing Backward in High Heels
    Dancing Backward sounds more like a Buster Poindexter album than a Dolls one.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 20
    Muppets: The Green Album
    The Green Album ends not with that bang, but with the whimper of Matt Nathanson's "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along" and Rachel Yamagata's "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday."
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 20
    The Midsummer Station
    Young's idea of fun is based on an uneasy mix of cheap valedictory philosophizing and infantile daydreaming.