Filter's Scores

  • Music
For 1,801 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 71% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 26% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 96 Complete
Lowest review score: 10 Drum's Not Dead
Score distribution:
1801 music reviews
    • 67 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    What the crap is this? [#17, p.94]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A high-pitched punky mess. [#16, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Feathers isn't a bad album, just one without a discernable look--or hook. [#14, p.99]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The album's lyrics feature mostly throwaway new-age drivel... and gut-wrenching despondency reduced to bored balladeering. Or just plain silliness. [#13, p.102]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    In the end, this record is frustrating. [#9, p.111]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Handler is no doubt marred by some tasteless postcoital nyuks... and outdated references. [#12, p.97]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sounds sometimes Dylan and most of the time Starbucks. [#12, p.102]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Some kind of Californian 5th Dimension/Phil Spector hybrid. All apologies, guys, but it comes off about as genuine as Phil Spector's current legal defense. [#11, p.94]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    You want to praise them for their attempts to define a unique voice, but a unique voice isn't necessarily an interesting one. [#11, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A double album slough of easy listening instrumentals. [combined review of both discs; #9, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gone are the fun hooks of [Nixon], and the genre jumping majesty of 1999's What Another Man Spills. [combined review of both discs; #9, p.108]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Complete hit-or-miss studio play. [#8, p.104]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    The best song is track 13, "Apology in Advance." It is still not that good. [#6, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Special moments are few and far between. [#8, p.109]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 41 Critic Score
    Too painful to be background music. [#5, p.89]
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