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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Era Vulgaris
    All the beefy guitar playing in the world can't change the reality that there isn't a single song here that you'll remember, or what to return to, two summers hence. [15 Jun 2007, p.78]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Out Of Exile
    The album ends up in the same spinning-wheels muck that often bogged down Soundgarden. [27 May 2005, p.136]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics
    The result feels like a lecture from the class goody-goody: instructive yet tedious.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Back On My B.S.
    For every track that finds him returning with full force to the tongue-twisting ways of his youth ('Don't Believe 'Em') or addressing tabloid gossip with refreshing honesty ('If You Don't Know'), there's a blatant trend grab like the Auto-Tune-abusing 'Hustler's Anthem '09.'
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Here and Now
    Their ambitions may get the best of them on Here and Now, an album that finds frontman Chad Kroeger volunteering to "kick a hole in the sky."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    I Told You I Was Freaky
    The sophomore studio set by Flight Of The Conchords, which gets off to a disappointing start with a string of lame loverman jokes over even lamer dime-store production. [23 Oct 2009, p.60]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    True Magic [First Version]
    A large chunk is bogged down by extended outros and lyrical inanities. [19 Jan 2007, p.81]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    3 Doors Down
    Much of the pop-metalers' fifth CD is overwrought. [23 May 2008, p.122]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Love, Angel, Music, Baby
    The ostentatiousness of it all grows irritating. [3 Dec 2004, p.83]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dying To Say This To You
    Repetitive riffs and chord progressions spoil the good times. [24 Mar 2006, p.71]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Think Tank
    For an album called Think Tank, this muddled retread seems awfully short on ideas. [9 May 2003, p.75]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    MACHINA/the machines of God
    The heavy-handedness is as bald as Corgan's dome, and often just as unappetizing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Heavier Things
    Overall, ''Heavier Things'' is snappier than, say, a Bruce Hornsby CD, if not as rockin' and emotion-drenched as the latest from Dashboard Confessional.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Jekyll + Hyde
    The album certainly proves that ZBB have range. But at some point, experimentation swerves into self-indulgence, and Brown mnever gets around to solving Jekyll's identity crisis. [1 May 2015, p.59]
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      • Posted Apr 27, 2015
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    • 58 Critic Score
    Free
    Only a slow-burning cover of the late Chris Whitley's 'Indian Summer' really stands out from the blur of tastefully arranged midtempo ballads.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The High End Of Low
    Musically, the new tunes mostly evoke warmed-over Nine Inch Nails crossed with mediocre '70s metal, and occasionally, the results can be fairly satisfying.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    All Night Long
    Buckcherry crank out slick, sleazy repackagings of Aerosmith and AC/DC, then reach for redemption with sensitive modern-rock odes to love and hope on All Night Long.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Bones
    How you respond to this cloying, gothic preciousness will have everything to do with your personal tolerance level for things like rough-hewn songcraft and small children chanting about zombies. [16 Oct 2009, p.59]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Till Death Do Us Part
    The CD's style jumbling never coheres. [26 Mar 2004, p.74]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Demi
    It’s too bad that her new album, Demi, sounds like such a decisive return to teen pop.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Am Not a Human Being
    I Am Not a Human Being's angry title track showcases Wayne's ability to at once spit funny similes and tough talk, but its punk-hop guitar riffs barely even compete with the ones on his much-derided 2010 rock album, Rebirth.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Made In China
    The sour largely overwhelms the sweet on this set of metal sludge, repetitive tunes, and purposefully ugly vocal effects. [12 Aug 2005, p.77]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
    If you're not a rabid fan... these too-coy-for-comfort exercises in lo-fi songcraft will likely leave you mulling the differences between profundity and fecundity. [11 Nov 2005, p.68]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fork In The Road
    Given that Fork in the Road was inspired by Young's alternative- energy-fueled car, the most appropriate description is probably ''pedestrian.''
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Never Gone
    This corny comeback is hardly a triumphant return. [24 Jun 2005, p.165]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gloriana
    The vast majority of their debut album, Gloriana, falls somewhere between maudlin boy-band songwriting cliches and? a particularly melodramatic Six Flags country revue.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blood In My Eye
    A dull slog with a dearth of hooks and a surfeit of gangsta cliches. [21 Nov 2003, p.87]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Live It Up
    Lee DeWyze's debut album Live It Up suffers from vague production that strips his Adam Duritz-y growl of all humor, anger, and sexuality.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Time To Love
    These toothless, '80s-embalmed tracks... are the aural equivalent of Sleepytime tea. [28 Oct 2005, p.87]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Boomkatalog One
    Its forays into techno, pop, and--most embarrassingly--hip-hop make it seem like they're just throwing a bunch of styles against a wall to see what sticks. [18 Apr 2003, p.70]
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