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For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Love vs Money
    That alpha-jerk machismo is mitigated somewhat by the intoxicating future-soul sonics on songs like 'Right Side of My Brain.' But The-Dream's vision of romance mostly plays like a nightmare.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Yellowcard
    Although they’ve occasionally strayed from that style of pop-punk over the 13 years since that collection debuted in 2003, their tenth and final record features glimmers of their former selves--for better and for worse.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    3121
    A messier, more elf-indulgent affair than its predecessor. [24 Mar 2006, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Feedback
    The guileless, old-school vibe... feels tired. [28 Jul 2006, p.67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Amnesiac
    By the sound of it, Radiohead have strayed off into the same territory Yes did over a quarter century ago -- and two pieces of marginalia in a row don't bode well for the outcome. [8 June 2001, p.72]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Beat 'Em Up
    A major improvement over Avenue B's acoustic midlife crisis, this self-produced disc finds the Ig yelping off the top of his id again. [27 Jul 2001, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Appeal To Reason
    That's a serious issue on Appeal to Reason; songs like 'Re-Education (Through Labor)' and 'Entertainment,' which seeks to redress the evils of media manipulation upon the land, are peppy but pretty empty, power-chord downers with little bark or bite.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Maladroit
    Unfortunately, Cuomo hasn't come up with enough quality material to match his god-of-thunder conceit.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Here And Now
    The long-awaited hERE aND nOW falls victim to the pair's hokier tendencies.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Incredible Machine
    When having 15,000 fans wave their cell phones in the air goes from a nifty career aftereffect to the very reason for writing songs, it seems like something is amiss.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    New Danger
    A mishmash of mightily uneven demo-quality tracks. [29 Oct 2004, p.67]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Drastic Fantastic
    Drastic Fantastic's airy guitar pop--not to mention Tunstall's muted rasp--feels more technically proficient than passionate. [21 Sep 2007, p.81]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Auf Der Maur
    The album's monolithic sound... feels dated and drab. [4 June 2004, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Guilty Pleasure
    At 24, though, she's still treading an overly familiar pop-rock trail already better blazed by 16-year-old Miley Cyrus, and Guilty Pleasure isn't so much pleasurable as simply vapid.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    When The Sun Goes Down
    Songs about island escapes and carefree postadolescence abound. [6 Feb 2004, p.140]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tomorrow
    Though he's got plenty of hooks, personality is in much shorter supply.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hymns Of The 49th Parallel
    What's missing are distinctive arrangements or emotional interpretations of the material that would stake lang's own claim to these songs. [30 Jul 2004, p.69]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Clear as Day
    On Clear as Day, American Idol's latest champ sounds like he's 52, and not just because of the Randy Travis baritone coming from his Opie Taylor mouth.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Greatest Story Ever Told
    All things considered, we like Banner much better when he's angry. [25 Jul 2008, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
    If [only] these epic songs glowed hotter along the way. [6 May 2011, p.74]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 29, 2011
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Mama, I'm Swollen
    Tim Kasher is emo's grown-up hero--a punk who pays his mortgage. So it's a little awkward to find the Omaha native stricken with Peter Pan syndrome on Cursive's sixth album, Mama, I'm Swollen.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Taking Chances
    It's cool that Dion can mimic everyone from Shakira to Sam Phillips...but her appalling Janis Joplin impression is a Chance too far. [16 Nov 2007, p.76]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Ownerz
    "Skills" and "Rite Where U Stand" show the group's formula can still sizzle, but on the more mundane tracks... Gang Starr sound comfortable, and that's the last thing they'd want. [11 Jul 2003, p.78]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    New Life
    Her seventh album is a thoroughly last-millennium set of self-help ballads about starting over.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Screaming Bloody Murder
    Murder ultimately drowns in flavorless thrashing. [1 Apr 2011, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 8, 2011
    • 45 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Como Ama Una Mujer
    Como Ama does represent a victory for Lopez by offering fairly persuasive proof that, contrary to rumor, she can sing, and without a regiment of background choralists. All that bulking up she's been doing at the vocal gym isn't enough, though, to turn flaccid torch songs into muscle.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dear Catastrophe Waitress
    The smiley-face vibe and quasi-ironic lyrics... only make the band seem more coy and arch than ever. [10 Oct 2003, p.124]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Let Love In
    Their punk roots are virtually nowhere to be found; now it's all overblown power chords, tambourines, and lovelorn lyrics. [28 Apr 2006, p.135]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ghetto Postage
    The occasional touch of humor offers too-rare relief from stale rhymes and grooves. [12/15/2000, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    My World, My Way
    The standard-issue No Limit backing beats vary little from track to track, making Silkk's world and ways hardly shocking. [3/2/01, p.70]
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