Neumu.net's Scores
- Music
For 474 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
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20
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 362 out of 474
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Mixed: 100 out of 474
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Negative: 12 out of 474
474
music reviews
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Critic Score 35
Part of the fun of the Beastie Boys is knowing that they're fucking with the rhymes and you; another part is knowing that they give a fuck about what's happening in the world. Those two things don't always work well together, though, especially when they say something watered down and deliver it as though they don't buy it either. -
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Critic Score 35
Guitars riff, drums pound, the bass plods, and the singer yowls -- but nothing gels. -
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Critic Score 35
It's the sound of someone crashing and burning in a heap of misguided, grandiose intentions. -
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Critic Score 30
Rain on Lens isn't awful, but boy, is it a long way from The Doctor Came at Dawn. -
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Critic Score 30
Just like an album of guitar solos, an album of battling fancy-fingered trick-pony turntablism is an utterly artless endeavor. -
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Critic Score 30
Left to his own devices here, Marr has penned vague lyrics and delivered them in a monotone, coupled with uninspired melodies that only underline the singer's limitations. -
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Critic Score 30
Lyrically, I suspect that part of the problem is rust, while part of the problem is age — a song about bumping into an ex-girlfriend, then coming home to tell the wife about it ("Jane Allen") just doesn't stick to the ribs, while the more overtly political numbers feel heavy-handed and preachy. -
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Critic Score 20
Even the non-Matricized songs are full of useless keyboard riffs, tacked-on guitar solos and loads and loads of overdubbed Lizclone background singers. Never before has so much work been put into making somebody sound so ordinary. -