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For 1,384 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison [Live]
Lowest review score: 20 Collapse
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 950 out of 1384
  2. Mixed: 427 out of 1384
  3. Negative: 7 out of 1384
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    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11
    The first sketches of songs that would later buttress both Dylan and the Band’s songbook--“Tears of Rage,” “Nothing Was Delivered,” “I Shall Be Released,” You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere,” Don’t Ya Tell Henry,” “Quinn the Eskimo,” “Million Dollar Bash,” “Lo and Behold!” and the like--offer a treasure trove of revelation, making the anticipation for acquisition well worth the wait.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lucinda Williams [Reissue]
    If you’ve never experienced Lucinda Williams before, this is a discovery worth making and music that will live in your heart and mind long after the disk stops spinning.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition]
    There is nary a pair of finer testaments to the purity of the original SP sound than the group's first two albums, both of which have been beautifully remastered and generously expanded [here].
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything: 1970-1975 [Box Set]
    1970-1975 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything is as inspiring as its title implies and absolutely essential to boot.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The SMiLE Sessions
    Every bit as riveting as the groundbreaking music is the ever-present studio chatter.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Warner Bros. Years [Box Set]
    The good folks at Shout Factory didn’t opt to only offer these discs a second time around, but instead provided added enticement via two bonus extras, a stunning live recording from Nashville’s Polk Theater, recorded around the same time as I Feel Alright, and a live DVD from the Cold Creek Correctional Facility where Earle had earlier been incarcerated.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Skeleton Tree
    Skeleton Tree is a testament to his art, his flaying honesty and his persistence in the wake of devastating loss.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Copper Blue [Deluxe Edition]
    Copper Blue is essential.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Icky Mettle [Deluxe Edition]
    Icky Mettle rocks. Hard.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Life's Rich Pageant
    Taken as a whole, the two-CD incarnation of Life's Rich Pageant makes a case for the album taking its rightful place alongside such obvious classics as Murmur and Out of Time.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some Girls [Deluxe Edition]
    The remastered discs sound great.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe]
    Since that time in 1991, U2 has had other weighty tracks, sensualist personal soliloquies and dense production - but nothing better than this truly real thing.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    L.A. Woman
    Taken in tandem, both CD and DVD provide an intriguing look at an album that ranks as one of the most dramatic accomplishments in modern Rock realms.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blur 21
    A magical must.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4
    Hearing it all together, over four discs, his innovations don’t seem as radical as they might have been considered at the time, but they’re nonetheless fascinating to devour.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
    Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch/Perro Verde) ranks not only among his very best releases, but among the best socio-political albums ever made.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Want It Darker
    There’s rarely been an addition to Cohen’s canon that couldn’t be deemed essential, but in truth, none could be called more revelatory or revealing than this.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bitch Magnet
    This collection should be as essential to your listening rotation as your favorite album from any of the bands who continually drank from the unique brand of introspective intensity pioneered by these unsung heroes of indie rock's mean season.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2
    They represent such a cool transitional period in Davis's career, as radical a creative juxtaposition to the jazz community as Bob Dylan blowing the minds of the folkies with the crackle of a guitar amplifier.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Complete Beat
    The the three original albums -- I Just Can't Stop It, Wha'ppen? and Special Beat Service, from '80, '81 and '82 respectively, still hold together well....The Complete Beat offers completists an ideal opportunity to ditch that well-worn vinyl and get in the groove with a compendium that puts all the music in one place.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rio [Live]
    Another exquisite solo performance entitled Rio.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ork Records: New York, New York
    Ork Records: New York, New York opens a window to the past that you can’t go through or even really see through, but it is just wide enough to let the music in and that is a very good thing indeed.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Life Somewhere Else
    Isidore doesn't really feel like a "side" anything. It's a main event.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No Depression [Legacy Edition]
    There are any number of landmark albums that critics are quick to label as essential, but given the fact No Depression jumpstarted an entire genre, none deserve that label more. The kudos earned by this good Uncle are clearly well earned.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bottle Rockets/The Brooklyn Side [Reissue]
    These two LPs still sound vital two decades later, just as the copious musician tributes and journalist essays in the accompanying pamphlet declare.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th & 5th, 1968 [Box Set]
    The label unearthed a stellar collection of songs the band recorded over two night in 1968.... The CD set capturing all four shows is where you should spend your money.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High Land, Hard Rain [30th Anniversary Edition]
    With this supremely supple and joyous display of early innocence and promise, Aztec Camera showed they already come into their own.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bad as Me
    Co-written and produced by his missus Kathleen Brennan, Waits' songs--Bad as Me included--find their center immediately and stick like a record's skip.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Accelerando
    Interspersed in between the renditions throughout the course of Accelerando... are five outstanding Iyer-penned performances.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fantasizing About Being Black
    Like all of his best work, Fantasizing About Being Black makes an impact on the soul that will be felt until the end of one’s days.
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