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 0.7 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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Posted Mar 15, 2019 -
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Gone is any trace of the searing vitality that drove their earlier records; in its place a winsome urge to recreate all of the waftiest, wimpiest moments from pop history. [Mar 2019, p.91]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2019 -
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They’re aiming for a rockier sound--Walking The Wire has a guitar solo that could conceivably be influenced by U2 if you stick your head under a pillow before hitting play – but, as one listen to opener I Don’t Know Why amply demonstrates, it just comes off like Michael Bolton dad-dancing to Justin Timberlake at a family wedding. Pop deserves better. Rock deserves better. We all deserve better.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 21, 2017
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They’ve stripped away the guitars to the point where only trace elements remain. ... The whole thing makes Ed Sheeran sound like Extreme Noise Terror.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted May 17, 2017
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All the emo-rooted, posthardcore stylistic hallmarks are present and correct, embellished with a load of electronic arsing about on top, but the almost constant use of the same soaring ‘wo-ah’ pop hooks will soon have you wanting to hack your ears off with a pair of blunt scissors.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Apr 10, 2017
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As a trad dad pastiche it isn’t funny enough, and as a parallel career it’s a painful vanity project. Either way, avoid.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jan 27, 2016
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Songs Of Innocence is stricken with lethargy, with a level of aspiration that extends as far as Coldplay and never explores further. [Nov 2014, p.93]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2014 -
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Maybe hilariously, considering the video-friendly drama being aimed at, First You Break It conjures images of Justin Bieber when he makes that inevitable nasty rock album, cavorting in a black puddle. [Summer 2013, p.89]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2013 -
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A parade of beige pop numbers that even Taylor Swift would turn down for being too generic. [May 2013, p.86]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2013 -
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Their most self-important but least memorable, engaging or relevant album yet. [Apr 2013, p.98]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Jun 6, 2013