Classic Rock Magazine's Scores

  • Music
For 1,876 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Rockstar
Lowest review score: 20 One More Light
Score distribution:
1876 music reviews
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ryder is at his best when riffing through the 70s piano-pop playbook. [Feb 2023, p.78]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Every Loser captures an Iggy Pop never more ready to be himself and never better equipped to deliver a stone-cold classic. [Feb 2023, p.78]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rundgren is possibly the only musician for whom a lack of any thematic coherency across a record doesn’t result in total disaster. It works - don’t ask me how.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Even in the late autumn of his career, Neil Young can still turn in something as vital and musically catholic as Worl Record. [Jan 2023, p.78]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you've been yearning for the days when David Draiman shrieked like a nu-metal chimpanzee-cum-wolverine, then Divisive is the album for you. [Dec 2022, p.75]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Among the out-takes, acoustic sketches, etc here, it's the a-capella versions of various tracks that touch the most, displays of harmonic unity in the midst of disharmony. [Dec 2022, p.83]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As with their nine albums before it, Get Rollin’ is crafted to satisfy their fan base rather than to pick up new but casual admirers. And they’ve succeeded completely. [Dec 2022, p.74]
    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The band's evident love for the material floods the performances, even though they can overdo the jamming when they get a groove going and reverence dampens Hooker's guest spot. But Petty's own songs, deployed sparingly, sound infinitely fresher and tighter. [Dec 2022, p.85]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If not a classic tour de force, this pressure-cooker set remains an era-capturing document of the social turmoil and pressures Hendrix faced as the world's greatest rock guitarist. [Dec 2022, p.81]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Divine Symmetry for once does what it promises to do, which is track Bowie's progression in one extraordinary year. ... This is a comprehensive trawl through 1971 - and an extraordinary one. [Dec 2022, p.84]
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They revisit a previous concept. ... Floating along on a wave of jazzy good vibes. [Nov 2022, p.75]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Past Lives is a wilfully uncommercial record, made for the sheer love of the tight-knit scene that spawned them. [Dec 2022, p.74]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Where Is The Water twists and meanders hazily before shifting into gear with a riff from the Jack White school of thud, while opener Needles is excitable garage rock with a stiff, post-punk edge. And over in the kaleidoscopic corner, Wheels Within Wheels flips merrily from one psychedelic landscape to the next and includes a wriggling organ solo that sounds as if it's being squeezed from a tube. All in all, it's quite the adventure. [Dec 2022, p.75]
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are many less rewarding experiences than hearing Springsteen thirstily sing his favourite songs, but there’s a sense here that all concerned hope it would catch fire and amount to something more. [Dec 2022, p.76]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It perfects every element of the band’s sound and ensures everything is top-of-the-line. ... This is the Rolls-Royce of Alter Bridge records, and a high-water mark to which all rock hopefuls should aspire.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A bunker-born double (their second) that keeps on giving. [Nov 2022, p.74]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The result borders on easy listening with a yacht-pop vibe, before the psychedelic starbursts come out to play. [Nov 2022, p.75]
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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Safe to say, the album's 14 tracks are confirmed to be nothing less than brilliant (it wasn't consistently voted the best album of all time back in the 90s for nothing), with Martin's beautifully burnished, respectful restorations of For No One, Here There And Everywhere and the enduringly magnificent Tomorrow Never Knows packing particular emotional punch.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mykki Blanco pops up on Midnight Legend, but the highlights break out elsewhere when Alli Logout furiously punks the shit out of post-disco. [Nov 2022, p.75]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A tangibly effervescent romp. [Sep 2022, p.77]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As displayed by the title track and the pumping Brutalism, Oxymore feels stuck in the 90s rather than the work of two trailblazers, though at least Epica’s hands-in-the-air dynamics feels fresher. [Nov 2022, p.71]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It's been effectively produced to death. A cold, clinical experience. [Oct 2022, p.77]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite a handful of anodyne plodders, it is difficult to dislike Simple Minds in this nostalgic late-career mode, elder statesmen with nothing left to prove. [Nov 2022, p.71]
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The title and lyrics may scream apocalyptic gloom - Living is Killing Us, Doomscrolling, Born Again Pessimist - but there is an increasingly bright, infectious, power-glam polish to the band's sound. [Dec 2022, p.74]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Goat's best album. [Nov 2022, p.70]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is a return they can be proud of. [Nov 2022, p.70]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At first you think, "Meh, more generic LA stuntcore." then realise you're loving it. [Nov 2022, p.75]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The styles eclectic but generally harking back to the architecture of 60s pop. [Nov 2022, p.71]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Where once they would gallop, here they lope, they slide, giving themselves all the time in the world. Hardcore fans of the weird stuff are going to hate it. ... This is clearly the right music for this stage in their musical evolution. [Nov 2022, p.70]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Behind all the autumnal rumination and elder-statesmen tastefulness, thankfully, Eno's experimental ethos endures. [Nov 2022, p.75]
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