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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Sign O' The Times might be Prince's apex. .. The extras on this eight-CD/13-LP set, however, include a lot of dry-humping, second-rate material that hints at the decline he would go into in the 90s and beyond. [Oct 2020, p.91]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Sporadically great but decidedly patchy, A Moon Shaped Pool is not the sound of a great band dying, more a great band spreading themselves too thinly.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 10, 2016
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It's probably the Rolling Stones' best album ever. ... Slim pickings of the expanded vinyl package border on the insulting. [Dec 2018, p.94]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Divorced from the visual spectacle--puppets, illusionists, avian transformations, ticker-tape poetry--and the thrill of watching actual Kate Bush actually singing, this audio recording is akin to John Lennon being resurrected to perform the Wedding Album--i.e. only mildly amazing.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Nov 21, 2016
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Independence Day is normal for Neil: he tests the climate and the atmospherics are depressing. Terrorise Me, a response to the Bataclan outrage, is the key piece. The rest is no faffing and easy listening.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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While it does start to get a little repetitive, it's good to hear a band straying off the beaten track too play timeless music just for the sheer hell of it. [Dec 2021, p.72]- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Nov 11, 2021
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Meld[s] jangles, loops, fuzzes, plucks and floaty introspections. Heavy on shoe-gaze, light on Gallagher swagger. [Apr 2022, p.83]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's been effectively produced to death. A cold, clinical experience. [Oct 2022, p.77]- Classic Rock Magazine
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- Posted Mar 21, 2016
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Collects three albums and apposite era odds 'n' sods. [May 2021, p.97]- Classic Rock Magazine
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This fifth edition's half-hour documents their second collaboration with Nurse With Wound and never fully recovers. [Sep 2022, p.83]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Ultimately a completist's set. [Dec 2023, p.84]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Make no mistake, this is an angry record made by a protest singer whose rage hasn’t dimmed with age (she turns 77 this year), though there are shards of positive light sneaking through.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Feb 1, 2018
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The album was written on the hop, Newcombe spilling his brains right onto tape, and it shows – imperfections are made into a positive, the songs allowed to just naturally come into being.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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The results sound thin, contrived and ultimately laborious. [Aug 2020, p.89]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's elegiac, claustrophobic and contagiously disturbed. [Apr 2023, p.79]- Classic Rock Magazine
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He delves into lesser-known parts, like Wheel, a 1973 song about tragic, rural cycles, and he sings Old Road, as a sparse holler, akin to the original. Other songs celebrate the ‘gonzo country’ aims of Jerry Jeff, but Mr Bojangles and his worn-out shoes is still best in show.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2022
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It's invariably over-punctuated by hyperactive prog-metallic drumming and paradiddly percussion that leaves little space for their ideas to breath, while memorable hooks or riffs get buried in the chaos. [Sep 2023, p.79]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It’s bashed out in an exuberant blast of piano-stonkin’ late-60s rock’n’soul that occasionally wanders into poppy, kitschy Elton John territory, but owes most of its groove to the lean, mean, stray-cat blues of Beggars Banquet.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Oct 28, 2015
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Jazz standard Lullaby Of The Leaves begins in husky torch song mode, but gains interest with a brassy Bonamassa guitar solo, like a Bond theme played past midnight in a Chicago dive. When these rockers go reggae for Addicted, though, it is, as usual, a step too far.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Feb 1, 2018
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His words and sentiments are left deliberately smudged and indefinite in places; sardonic Dylan phrasing sticks to some words, double-tracked Lennon wails on others.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Sep 19, 2017
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Although micro-melody whimsy is at its heart, there’s a Tangs/Radiophonic Workshop slant that gives tracks such as Midwinter Rites a spooky Kill List/Children Of The Stones edge.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Mar 28, 2017
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Despite lofty ambitions to write a letter 'from God to humanity' on Restless Souls, these are counter-attacked by Rebel Girl, an overstuffed, over-sweetened, male gaze-heavy, lovelorn confection that completely overrides the potential of its title. ... nevertheless, Lifeforms is beautifully produced and catchy as hell, earning itself a spot on any intergalactic playlist. [Oct 2021, p.73]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2021 -
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Plenty here to admire--if you're in your most po-faced mood. [Summer 2014, p.95]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Dec 18, 2014 -
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As mood music it’s a stunner, the perfect complement to a lost weekend plotting your next Ubermensch moves in a haze of opium. But you can’t dance to it, that much is for sure.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2017
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Those with sensitive ears will find its more extreme moments indigestible, but it remains impressive stuff. [May 2023, p.78]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2023