Q Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 5,083 reviews, this publication has graded:
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38% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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60% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 64
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Positive: 2,144 out of 5083
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Mixed: 2,867 out of 5083
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Negative: 72 out of 5083
5,083
music reviews
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Pretty much everything a second album needs to be, it's like Is This It but more emotional, more colourful, slightly better. [Nov 2003, p.102] -
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It makes the case for some long-forgotten virtues: fast songs, staccato chords, songs about trysts in squalid apartments. You know, the good stuff. -
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Presents Led Zeppelin in all their ragged glory and heavy splendour. [Jul 2003, p.119] -
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No moment of Discovery is left unfilled with an idea, a sonic joke, a spark of brilliance.... a towering, persuasive tour de force which ultimately transcends the dance label. -
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It's a landmark album for REM and the fans who stayed faithful, a shot in the arm for music in 2001 and - unless they're too foolish to accept it - a long-awaited treat for all the listeners who bailed out after Monster. -
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The best album of 2004 so far, and by some distance. [Jun 2004, p.92] -
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What burns from the music is The Clash's defining characteristic: the fact that they were insatiable omnivores. [Oct 2004, p.136] -
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The finest alt-country album this side of Gram Parsons. [Jan 2005, p.129] -
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A substantially more visceral and emotionally rewarding experience than both its predecessors. [Jul 2005, p.106] -
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A work of dazzling scope and grandeur... It is impossible to imagine any other band making music quite like this. [Aug 2006, p.106] -
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In its progress from raw ambition to actual intent, this mirrors U2's great leap forward from Boy and October to War. [Aug 2006, p.108] -
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A magical kingdom of noise that's equal parts Disney's Fantasia and Echo & The Bunnymen's lavish Ocean Rain. [Apr 2007, p.107] -
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It's not just the songs that have improved, but also their delivery. [May 2007, p.115] -
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No two tracks are the same, none could be anyone else. This is one irresistible party: the joy Adebimpe was looking for is right here. A great, great record. [Oct 2008, p.154] -
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Simply, what this amounts to is the best U2 album since "Achtung Baby. [Apr 2009, p.94] -
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So let any indie bands planning a trip to the keyboard shop take note: this is how it's done, with a desire to surprise and be surprised. [May 2009, p.104] -
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By breathing life into Richey Edwards's own last words, his friends have crafted not a memorial but a celebration. [Jun 2009, p.120] -
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There was nothing like "Demon Days" before and there's been nothing like it since. Until now.[...] Plastic Beach picks up several steps on from where its predecessor left off. [Apr 2010, p.104] -
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With the exception of Bob Dylan, there isn't a single artist, living or dead, who has managed a record this audacious 30-plus-years into a career. Wake Up The Nation is that good. [May 2010, p.114] -
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The vindication of this luxury raw Power is it bestows still greater kudos on Ron's band. [Jun 2010, p.140] -
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Stick to the main text: until they invent time travel, there's no better way to inhale the decadent air of the early '70s. [Jun 210, p.137] -
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The Hunter represents them at both their most concise and their thrilling best. [Nov. 2011, p. 135]Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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Twenty years, five discs, but Nevermind is always more than the sum of its parts. [Oct 2011, p.133]Posted Sep 29, 2011