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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Together We're Heavy
    A sonic improvement.... But it's all wasted on songs and harmonies too campy and cloying to be as uplifting as [DeLaughter] wants them to be. [16 Jul 2004, p.77]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Sorry for Party Rocking
    It's topped off by truly terrible rapping, which often turns otherwise groan-inspiring instrumentals into jumbled, maddening filler.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The History of Rock
    Compared with ''Devil Without a Cause,'' it's also underwhelming, a push mower to ''Devil'''s lawn tractor.... The shelved compositions he's finally put on tape didn't necessarily need to be resurrected...
    • 73 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    8 Diagrams
    Raekwon, Meth & Co. have lost their lyrical ferocity. Judging by this disappointing return, Wu-Tang may not be forever after all.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Lost Riots
    More contrived than climactic. [29 Oct 2004, p.68]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Faceless
    Mostly it's the same staccato riffing, constipated vocals, and generic, rage-against-the-kidney-stone angst. [11 Apr 2003, p.78]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    It's Alive!
    Rundgren's self-conscious imitation of Ocasek's new-wave vocals makes It's Alive! stall.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Cost
    The Frames just about define overripe, both musically (imagine if Coldplay decided to make its power ballads even more bombastic) and lyrically. [23 Feb 2007, p.99]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 68 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Father of All…
    A derivative party foul, a spirited genre game that plays like a copy of a copy. [Feb 2020, p.104]
    • 59 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    This Way
    A misstep. [23 Nov 2001, p.82]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 43 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    I Am Me
    Every song feels like a retread of some hit you've heard before, somewhere. [21 Oct 2005, p.73]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 65 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    It Ain't Safe No More
    A tragically mediocre album full of lackluster arrangements and inexplicably short songs. [13 Dec 2002, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Old School New Rules
    Old School New Rules leans heavily on that persona, spewing Internet-troll claptrap about the "gotcha" media and impinged freedom.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    TheFutureEmbrace
    Flim-flammy beats, tinny guitars, and Corgan's nasal moan predominate as he mopes like it's 1984 and his mom forgot to renew his Sisters of Mercy fanclub membership. [24 Jun 2005, p.164]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 74 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Cookbook
    While Elliott's lyrics have always been racy, this disc's uninspired musical foundation makes repellent lines... vulgar rather than playfully profane. [8 Jul 2005, p.66]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Clothes Drop
    Maybe he should lose the monotonous, low-rent beats and banal-hook girls (and boys). [23 Sep 2005, p.87]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A Rock In The Weary Land
    He's forgone the folk-pop and jangly mystical ruminations of his past for heavy synthesizers, overproduced vocals, and esoteric allegories, making for a long, strained trip. [14 Sep 2001, p.94]
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