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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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    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    18 Months
    His new album is called 18 Months, but it doesn't sound like it took anywhere near that long to make.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Days of Gold
    At a certain point, all the blue skies, blue jeans, babes, bros, and brews just start to sound like... blah blah blah. [20 Dec 2013, p.60]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Dec 13, 2013
    • 47 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Battle For Everything
    Weighed down by artificially inflated anthems, garbled lyrics about the apocalypse, and coy attempts at surrealism. [6 Feb 2004, p.140]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Our Endless Numbered Days
    Makes John Mayer sound like Slayer. [21 May 2004, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Charango
    Teeters between cool languor and bland lethargy. [6 Sep 2002, p.86]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Thorns
    When an entire CD turns into a game of spot the classic-rock reference, it's distracting, not to mention dull. [23 May 2003, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Jacksonville City Nights
    Somebody tell this man to take a vacation. [30 Sep 2005, p.94]
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    • 58 Critic Score
    Gems: The Duets Collection
    The soft-rocker belter hooks up with Seal, Rascal Flatts, and others for covers of sure-thing hits like "Fields of Gold" and :You Are So Beautiful." [24 Jun 2011, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Jun 23, 2011
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Getting Away With Murder
    Too many of the [tracks] here lack depth. [3 Sep 2004, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Gutterflower
    They lack the melodic range to differentiate the new tunes from each other, or even from songs they've been releasing for years.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    So-Called Chaos
    Once more, her songs become little more than cloying ruminations or sarcastic harangues aimed at those who want to squash her individuality. [28 May 2004, p.121]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Blue Lights On The Runway
    The rest of Blue Lights on the Runway is duller than 'The Great Defector;' most of it sounds like warmed-over Coldplay.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Colonia
    Too bad her sharpest one-liners on Colonia get buried in a wash of pastoral easy listening.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Ursa Major
    Third Eye Blind's fourth album and first since 2003--shows that frontman Stephan Jenkins' way with a hook has dimmed little since the band's mid-'90s heyday. The clunky lyrics are another thing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's Sounds Today
    Tomorrow's sound, grittier and dustier than '98's poppish A Long Way Home, masks the album's core blandness; too much of the material is just plain forgettable. [11/3/2000, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    lovehatetragedy
    Papa Roach were fairly distinctive two years back, but in a twist we've witnessed many times before, the band that helped beget so much of the rap-metal grudge rock we're now hearing resembles all its followers.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Shade Of Poison Trees
    Carrabba's purported back-to-his-roots album (''redeem-o,'' anyone?), offers little evidence that he's matured along with his audience.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Open Season
    The only real surprise is its wan predictability. [15 Apr 2005, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Streets Of Gold
    Streets of Gold's beats still sound garage-sale-Casio cheap, but the album yields several doofy, affable sing-alongs and even - yeeps! - an Owl City-esque ballad.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    In My Mind
    If In My Mind seems divided against itself, rest assured that all of the songs have something in common: They're not remotely catchy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Under the Mistletoe
    The Biebs' gentle set of gentile carols on Under the Mistletoe isn't coal-lump bad; it's more like a dorky sweater from Nana with a 20 in the pocket.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Mix-Up
    Who'd have guessed that a Beastie Boys record could be too subtle?
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Battle at Garden's Gate
    Where Anthem positioned Greta Van Fleet as an overqualified cover band in gestation, Battle gives brief glimpses of potential for a collective determined to graduate from Guitar Hero savants. What's hindered Greta Van Fleet's attempts at individualism is their penchant for thrash and bombast.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Nobody's Daughter
    While Love remains as ferocious as ever, the bleak, samey production here doesn't always rise to meet her.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hang Cool Teddy Bear
    The passion and delivery are there, but the songs aren't. And two out of three ain't enough.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Kasabian
    Kasabian need an aptitude for more than just attitude. [11 Mar 2005, p.104]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Sneak Attack
    The most compelling lectures can't obscure KRS' drab old-school beats and samples. [4/27/2001, p.118]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Reads The Books [EP]
    Ends up mired in a decidedly mild brew. [22 Jul 2005, p.78]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Jason Derulo
    On Jason Derulo, though, Derulo has trouble making an impression.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Midsummer Station
    The Midsummer Station is loaded with so many platitudes and puns that it quickly descends into sugar shock.
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