For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
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81% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 78
| Highest review score: | The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do | |
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| Lowest review score: | Playing With Fire |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
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Mixed: 407 out of 3519
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Negative: 27 out of 3519
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Her lovelorn ballads achieve a dullness to which normally only Americans aspire. [14 Dec 2007, p.67]- Entertainment Weekly
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The idealism is admirable, but after an album of Bambi's worldview via Beach Boys strings, you'll want to put Higgenson down for a nap.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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Custom Built boasts the talents of both Miley Cyrus and Jason Miller from goth-metalers Godhead, who offers a brutal remix of the Rock of Love theme.- Entertainment Weekly
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If you were ever young and in love, dumb with drink, and had a head swimming with not just Boone's Farm wine but also Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and AC/ DC (to name these guys' most blatant anthemic influences), you may be willing to forgive Hinder's lack of originality and preponderance of madonna/whore issues.- Entertainment Weekly
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Milian's limp attempt at a sassy, streets-friendly R&B sound simply lacks bite and believability. [19 May 2006, p.76]- Entertainment Weekly
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There's little with teeth on Dirty Vegas' snoozeworthy debut. [21 June 2002, p.84]- Entertainment Weekly
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[Ludacris] largely trades in his playful personality for an unbecoming tough-guy posture. [10 Dec 2004, p.93]- Entertainment Weekly
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Corin Tucker's voice--always so uniquely emotive in the punkier contexts of S-K--looms uncomfortably over songs that sound scrapbooked from other '90s-centric acts (Liz Phair, Pavement) but never take on a form of their own.- Entertainment Weekly
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What Drake needs is a few more punchlines to brighten up his monochromatic therapy sessions. Surely Canada's excellent healthcare system can underwrite that.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Nov 16, 2011
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Even producer Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young) can't save Scars & Stories from generic TV-soundtrack mediocrity.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Feb 8, 2012
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- Posted Oct 21, 2011
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Westerberg plays blues dress-up with bar-band enthusiasm but not much depth. [24 Oct 2003, p.106]- Entertainment Weekly
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As long as the original recordings by the Chi-Lites and the Rolling Stones continue to exists, Sessions' covers are passionately pointless. [3 Aug 2012, p.74]- Entertainment Weekly
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[“Break Up Every Night” is] an actual dance cut. The other cuts are basically ballads with beats--modernized Moby without the soul-searching or gospel samples.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Apr 10, 2017
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The band work so hard at it, and the music is such processed sounding mainstream rock played fast, that the album becomes a paradox: adolescent energy and rebellion made joyless.- Entertainment Weekly
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The CD's austere instrumentation brings out the worst in Leithauser, whose once-endearing tunelessness becomes a whining deterrent.- Entertainment Weekly
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A typical morass of computerized beat science, vague exoticism, and singer Gibby Haynes' crackpot mantras... [7 Sep 2001, p.164]- Entertainment Weekly
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Too bad Posse is a conceptual wreck, because it benefits from some of the beefiest, most borderline-glam-rock moments Amos has put on record.- Entertainment Weekly
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Alterna-folkie Lori McKenna's contributions save Hill from schlock overdose. [5 Aug 2005, p.65]- Entertainment Weekly
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The funny, creative, outrageous Madonna we’ve known is still in here somewhere. It just takes a lot of patience to find her. [Adam Markovitz's review]- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Mar 5, 2015
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One doesn't look to the Matchbox Twenty frontman for musical daredevilry, but his second solo disc falls too often into the mom-rock safety net.- Entertainment Weekly
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The band's lyrics make Smash Mouth look like Sartre, and its anthemic choruses never quite jell into actual good songs. [18 Feb 2005, p.78]- Entertainment Weekly
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Leave the rock operas to other Olympians; like elite sprinters, Muse are best when they're surging straight ahead.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 27, 2012
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This is meant as a return to the film-score sounds of Safari. Unfortunately, "hummability" is missing fromthe formula. [9 Mar 2007, p.106]- Entertainment Weekly
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Especially in its ballad-heavy second half, mad season feels like the rock equivalent of a chick flick.- Entertainment Weekly
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This round goes down like a cheap well drink. [18 Aug 2006, p.139]- Entertainment Weekly
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Bunyan's wispy soprano lacks nuance, making for music that's ultimately more numbing than emotive. [4 Nov 2005, p.71]- Entertainment Weekly
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Like a political speech, Mellencamp's stadium rock plays to the cheap seats but rarely offers specific critiques or risks giving offense. That this is less than inspiring says as much about modern politics as it does mass-market pop.- Entertainment Weekly
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The nostalgia train is stalled by embarrassing platitudes and well-worn riffs. [14 Jul 2006, p.79]- Entertainment Weekly