MTV.com's Scores
- Music
For 75 reviews, this publication has graded:
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74% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | XTRMNTR | |
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Lowest review score: | Songs From an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 61 out of 75
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Mixed: 8 out of 75
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Negative: 6 out of 75
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The result (smells like the blues, bubbles like funk-rock, burns like hip-hop) is some strange new kinda rock 'n rhyme stew... Eat At Whitey's is like nothing else that's happenin' right now.- MTV.com
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Jakob Dylan and his team have fashioned an album that's longer on big guitars, crunchy grooves and cool changes than overt confessionals. All told, Breach is a subtle, seamless effort with nary a lull or misstep -- in contrast to its multiplatinum predecessor, the second half of which suffered from a series of pedestrian songs.- MTV.com
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Yes, as with OK Computer, stark minimalism marks this effort, and the carefully plotted layers of instruments and machine-generated blips only add to the feeling of emotional emptiness. Seemingly stripped bare of all adornment, however, the new album beats with a loud, persistent, sometimes unsteady heartbeat.- MTV.com
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Like any good party, it's the music and the guests that make Bridging the Gap so memorable.... Each track is so strong and willfully catchy that you may forget who's driving the soul train.- MTV.com
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Concise and compelling, Bootleg Detroit is a sonic snapshot of Morphine basking in its best virtues.- MTV.com
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Björk's airy and exalted vocals are wonderfully familiar. She may be singing as Selma, but Björk herself isn't too far beneath the surface.- MTV.com
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An album far better than the last. It's full of clever, upbeat songs and comes close to blending the lyrical and melodic brilliance of their first album, Gordon, with the energy of their live album, Rock Spectacle.- MTV.com
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Very unique and very, very good....the songs on Righteous Love are brimming with the sorts of influences that you don't hear too much on the radio today: gender-bending atmospherics... Sly Stone/bar-rock amalgams... Dylan's recent haziness...- MTV.com
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From the double album's first echoes of guitar and strings to its droning denouement, godspeed you black emperor! creates a musical soundscape that alternates between flashes of sonic brilliance and moments of quiet ecstasy.- MTV.com
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Immaculately recorded and mixed, the set (all classics, from "Pearls Girl" and "Born Slippy" to "Juanita" and "King Of Snake") presents all of the improvisatory and visceral excitement of an Underworld gig without (as is the case with most live recordings) losing any of its sonic intensity.- MTV.com
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Toward the end of Man or Astro-Man?'s A Spectrum of Infinite Scale there is a track called "A Simple Text File" which is nothing more than a recording of a dot matrix printer producing a hard copy of... a simple text file!... If only the rest of the album were this intensely cool.... Every great leap forward on Spectrum is accompanied by an equal and negative small step backwards...- MTV.com
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The seamless integration of acoustic strumming, post-collegiate lyrical references, crystalline ambiance and overall etherealness of the entire album make With Ghost an album that certainly stands on its own.- MTV.com
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Smart, funny and unabashedly feminine....a bouncy and infectious record.- MTV.com
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[A] tighter, indigo-deeper, more vision cohesive joint than its predecessor.- MTV.com
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Gone is the preciousness of Elastica. Instead we get a confident and comfortable Frischmann, her voice, ever cool, fronting a rejuvenated punk-loving band.- MTV.com
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This time around, LL goes deep and scores with his most consistent, diverse, adventurous, dome blowing/SUV-bumping set of tunes since the Mama Said album...- MTV.com
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Yes, nearly every track is a Jeep-worthy jam, and, yes, guest vocals from the likes of Redman, Chaka Khan, Busta Rhymes, and the Beastie Boys introduce unprecedented name-recognition, but this isn't a pop album by any stretch of the imagination.- MTV.com
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The trio have hit their stride with a pop confectioner's treat which melds P-Funk with Shirley Bassey, TSOP soul with Caribbean reggae, and Chic disco with Moby-esque blues riffing.- MTV.com
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A real piece of art, with an unmistakably original sound and incisive storytelling.- MTV.com
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The collection of songs on Horrorscope is a rollicking batch of hooky tunes- MTV.com
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Nearly an instant classic...one of the most convincing and refreshing debuts in recent memory.- MTV.com
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An absolutely amazing album....more riff-heavy and directly engaging than his former band's work...- MTV.com
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The slick strings and piano emphasized later in the album aren't as moving as the cascading guitar and Enigk's vulnerable-boy vanity.- MTV.com
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At their worst, Deftones can sound almost like a parody of themselves. But at their best, the band fashions a heavy, claustrophobic atmosphere in which Moreno spins his dark, personal tales of misery and heartbreak against a backdrop of music that careens from the ugly to the beautiful. Most of the time, White Pony finds Deftones at their best.- MTV.com
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Faith and Courage shows a songwriter still in command of her talents.- MTV.com
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But unlike the band's overbearing forays into trip-hop and dub before, a new level of soul and texture emerge from Saint Etienne's neo-modernist stylings.- MTV.com
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