E! Online's Scores
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For 787 reviews, this publication has graded:
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72% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Okonokos [Live] | |
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Lowest review score: | I Get Wet |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 643 out of 787
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Mixed: 133 out of 787
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Negative: 11 out of 787
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Banks seems determined to launch a one-man revival with perfectly polished tracks like "Addicted" and "Hands Up."- E! Online
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Along the way, it scores a lot of points, thanks to Nigel Godrich's earthy but twisted production.- E! Online
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[It] offers only occasional flashbacks to the seedy glamour of the debut, instead settling on lightweight MOR clichés.- E! Online
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Songs like "First Night" and "You Can Make Him Like You" conjure up a bit of Springsteen, a bit of Westerberg and far more catchiness than they should rightfully be allowed.- E! Online
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[The Crane Wife] not only matches past pop glories, in most cases, it tops them.- E! Online
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Evanescence fans can rest easy knowing The Open Door handily re-creates the sonic storm of the debut.- E! Online
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Dated songs like "So Excited" and "Do It 2 Me" end up sounding like they're, well, 20 years old.- E! Online
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Therapy's diagnosis ultimately is not positive, because the disc's split-personality disorder results in too much incoherence.- E! Online
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While a handful of the songs sound derivative, it's hard to resist the tambourine-enhanced exuberance of standout cuts like "Penny on the Train Track" and "I Gotta Move."- E! Online
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Unfortunately, it lacks much of the spark and spunk that made the original disc so memorable.- E! Online
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Crazy and fun, this is for the people who thought Gnarls Barkley's album was a little too tame.- E! Online
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On "Waiting on the World to Change," Mayer breathily imagines a world where frat boys get off their couches and have people sign petitions. Sigh. A little more of that and less of noodley songs like "Vultures" and "Gravity" would have been a good step toward reminding us who Mayer really is.- E! Online
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FutureSex/LoveSounds isn't nearly as good as its slinky predecessor.- E! Online
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The group sounds as wonderfully debauched, degenerate and dejected as ever.- E! Online
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The actual music merely offers more of the same oddly faceless brand of heavy rock the group has been cranking out since its 2002 debut.- E! Online
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The veteran singer-songwriter has opted to retreat into old-timey blues, rattling off clichés about blind horses and hog-eyed towns while laying down a halfhearted soundtrack of brushed drums, plucked guitars and woozy strings.- E! Online
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Idlewild is a more down-tempo affair than its genre-splitting predecessor, but it wins points with stone-cold psychedelic soul classics such as "Mighty O," "Peaches" and "Hollywood Divorce."- E! Online
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Listening to her debut album, you get the feeling that she breezed in and out of the studio.- E! Online
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The result? An album that could just as easily bear the name of any other pop singer working the charts today.- E! Online
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Only the faux-reggae of "Jamaican Girl" lets some much needed light in between the blinds.- E! Online
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Of course, it sounds ragged as all hell, but that was half of his old band's charm.- E! Online
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An arresting mix of the singer's political and personal strife set to a jazzy backbeat.- E! Online
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