E! Online's Scores

  • Music
Select another publication »
For 787 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Okonokos [Live]
Lowest review score: 0 I Get Wet
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 643 out of 787
  2. Mixed: 133 out of 787
  3. Negative: 11 out of 787
787 music reviews
view
per page
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stand Still, Look Pretty
    A thoroughly dull collection of acoustic-based country-rock ballads you could hear at any local open-mike night.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Airdrawndagger
    This bummer sounds more in league with Yanni than Moby.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Lively Mind
    Employing actress Brittany Murphy on the ridiculous "Faster Kill Pussycat" hardly helps, as does reducing Pharrell Williams' talent with a caricature of a tune like "Sex 'N' Money."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sacred Love
    Rife with hyper-marketable flamenco guitars and jazz pianos, it's world music for people whose idea of adventure is a trip to Banana Republic.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Day I Forgot
    Although he has sensibly cut back on the droning that defined his last disc's stand-out single "Strange Condition," this release shows few other signs of growth.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Don't Tread On Me
    It's business as usual.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Invincible
    The fortysomething performer doesn't have the stamina he used to, and the album quickly turns into a long run of listless ballads and silly cries for privacy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Captain & The Kid
    Unfortunately, it lacks much of the spark and spunk that made the original disc so memorable.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Glitter
    She throws so much sparkle, shine and, yes, glitter at us that even tracks about her friend's suicide and her recent breakup are as glossy as her latest publicity shot.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In My Mind
    There's nothing as instantly likable as "Frontin'," and even with the presence of some bigwig collaborators the disc sounds strangely inspiration-free.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The B.Coming
    The B. Coming attempts to document the emotional upheaval Sigel went through during his trial and conviction, but from the start the sober moral tone and forced gospel choruses make it obvious the MC's mind is on other matters.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Life On Display
    Fails to whip up much excitement.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Precious Memories
    The end result of all this sermonizing will likely inspire you not to renounce sin and its sordid ways, but feel the itch to grab some hooch and a few George Jones albums and have a rip-roaring time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Trading Snake Oil For Wolftickets
    It sounds like he wrote his lyrics by taking random words out of a thesaurus.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shock'n Y'All
    If he approached these songs with the slightest hint of subtlety, he might get his point across, but he's happy just hammering everyone with his trailer-park politics.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Atomic
    Record buyers will find nothing as good on Atomic as the breakout bubblegum slacker-punk of "My Own Worst Enemy."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Amarantine
    Anyone order more of the same?
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chapter V
    Chapter V is merely a carbon copy of, uh, chapters I-IV, simply rehashing the same punishing riffs and self-pitying lyrics.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Destiny Fulfilled
    The first word that comes to mind while listening to Destiny Fulfilled is: boring!
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Loon
    [A] thoroughly underwhelming debut, an album that merely paints within the lines already drawn by Pavement and the Pixies.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    100th Window
    Less immediate than their brilliantly untouchable 1998 album Mezzanine, this project is unsettling, uneasy and, okay, sometimes unbearably depressing.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Britney
    Most of the good parts of the Britney that originally hit us, baby, one more time (then oops!...did it again) drown in breathy vocals and multiproduced, tweaked-to-perfection studio gimmickry.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Testify
    A largely boring affair.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vulnerable
    What once sounded like the future's music a decade ago just sounds creepy and dated now.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gold Medal
    Gold Medal's tempos are sluggish and the lyrics are emotionally vacant.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Emancipation Of Mimi
    A set of predictable, plastic, street-tough R&B jams.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    See You On The Other Side
    Has a polish that verges on parody.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unleashed
    Sadly, Keith's least-clever disc yet was almost completely written by him for the first time.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Lonely Position of Neutral
    While the band's wounded vulnerability and breathy melodrama will probably imitate enough to sell well, this is predictable second-rate stuff.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Complex
    There's something high-concept going on here, if you listen closely enough. Sad thing is, you probably won't want to. There's something high-concept going on here, if you listen closely enough. Sad thing is, you probably won't want to.
Page: