Classic Rock Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 1,901 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | West Bank Songs 1978-1983: A Best Of | |
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Lowest review score: | One More Light |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,590 out of 1901
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Mixed: 300 out of 1901
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Negative: 11 out of 1901
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There's a lot to take in, but Petty was at one of his many peaks and this is worth luxuriating in. [Nov 2020, p.92]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's an extraordinary record, which stands, and reliably rewards, repeated listens. [Jan 2022, p.80]- Classic Rock Magazine
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This is a very good album. There might be darkness outside, but the barn is lit up by the old men playing country and rock inside. [Jan 2022, p.82]- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Dec 8, 2021
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The highlights have lost none of their lustre. ... What's abundantly clear is that each of the band members was squirrelling away material for their respective solo projects. [Jul 2021, p.90]- Classic Rock Magazine
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- Posted Dec 6, 2017
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All in all, this is a reissue as reissues ought to be done. A brilliant and familiar album remastered to perfection and bolstered by plenty of legitimately unheard material. Heavenly indeed.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Dec 14, 2016
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It's hard to argue with this gloriously detailed reveal of a a band leaving the underground and taking flight, one bloody controversy at a time. [Summer 2018, p.96]- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 25, 2018
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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.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2022
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Demented, wigged out and stupendously mind-blowing, White Hills can't be Brooklyn's best-kept secret much longer. [Sep 2013, p.88]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Cue nuggets of advice from someone who’s had his own share of knocks, self-inflicted and otherwise, as Simpson and the band tackle brassy R&B, Memphis soul and swampy country, augmented by semi-orchestral strings and bound together by his extraordinary baritone.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Apr 19, 2016
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There’s a surprisingly thoughtful plague-themed concept running throughout, which, if you care to dig deep enough, equates the sins of the medieval church with today’s societal ills. All this elevates Ghost above the herd, placing them in the sacred company of Blue Öyster Cult and Marilyn Manson.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 1, 2018
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As The Love Continues sees Mogwai’s voyage into sound progress in a stately manner as tracks like Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever and the misnomered Fuck Off Money tread an unlikely fine line between waft and heft.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Feb 22, 2021
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Supple but robust at 50, Bowie's power glows undimmed. [Jul 2020, p.93]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's the more textured and dynamic moments that raise this Herculean slab of cutting edge heaviness into the realms of a stone cold classic. [Jan 2015, p.114]- Classic Rock Magazine
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A divine meeting of minds, Reluctant Hero is a breathtaking trip unto the unknown. [Feb 2021, p.87]- Classic Rock Magazine
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I Hate Music is a fine addition to the canon, a little samey in places but it sweeps you along with its clattery blast and warm melodic hooks, [Sep 2013, p.93]- Classic Rock Magazine
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For diehard fans and the inevitable new army of converts, however, this blue period is one to marvel at. [Jul 2014, p.94]- Classic Rock Magazine
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The fourth album is a joyful tornado of shamelessly old-school indie pop. [Feb 2014, p.97]- Classic Rock Magazine
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An incendiary cocktail of muscular grooves, designed to delight and thrill the metallic faithful. [Aug 2013, p.88]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Tunes like Autograph and Hometown Blues rush forward with purpose and verve. [Jul 2014, p.95]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Capped by the sublime You Trip Me Up, even in 2014 Psychocandy was a visceral burn around the very edge of listenability.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Aug 4, 2015
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- Posted Nov 11, 2020
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Retains naive charm while delivering occasional brilliance. [Feb 2021, p.87]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Since 1983, The Melvins have been a wonderfully unstable constant on the rock fringes. Still fronted by Buzz Osborne of the explosion-in-a-mattress-factory hairdo, they continue to make good on that paradox with Hold It In. [Jan 2015, p.116]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Gabriel’s most consistent and cohesive post-80s record and the most philosophical of his life. [Jan 2024, p.78]- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Dec 1, 2023
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Another album, another triumph, then, and rarely more richly deserved. [Summer 2019, p.84]- Classic Rock Magazine
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For those who remain strangely tickled by their frivolous, heart-felt one-offmanship, every track here will prick your ears. Easter might be cancelled, but for rock fans Christmas has come early. [Oct 2019, p.86]- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Oct 3, 2019
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- Posted Sep 3, 2015
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