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For 8,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 A Hero's Death
Lowest review score: 0 Gemstones
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,112 out of 8545
  2. Mixed: 4,355 out of 8545
  3. Negative: 78 out of 8545
8545 music reviews
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Delirium Cordia
    Wretched. [Dec 2003, p.124]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dead Man Shake
    A moribund collection of ragged but never rugged songs. [Jan 2004, p.114]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Seal IV
    Most of it already sounds a decade old. [Dec 2003, p.137]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Show Me Your Tears
    Suffers from the same faults as previous efforts: limp tunes, pompous guitar solos and an overhwlming sense of "Will this do?" [Sep 2003, p.98]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Amateur Night In The Big Top
    Most disappointing of all... is the drab nature of Ryder's contribution: slurred, incoherent, and largely based around drug stories and lots of swearing. [Aug 2003, p.103]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Client
    They wouldn't be totally awful if Client A could actually sing. [Oct 2003, p.103]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Chapter II
    There are so many idiotically composed adverts between tracks, you wonder if you haven't tuned into a local radio station by accident. [Sep 2003, p.99]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Liz Phair
    Embarrassing. [Dec 2003, p.134]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    14 Shades Of Grey
    Another dollop of rock sludge with a remarkably honest title. [Aug 2003, p.115]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Thankful
    This debut has her trilling like Mariah Carey on fluffy R&B tunes. [Oct 2003, p.103]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fake Songs
    Tough to endure even once. [Aug 2003, p.110]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Faceless
    At least Nickelback know how to write a tune. [Jul 2003, p.104]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Boomkatalog One
    A numbing montage of half-formed ideas and too-slick production. [Jul 2003, p.100]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Other People's Songs
    So ill-conceived and shoddily executed it could well finish them off altogether. [Feb 2003, p.102]
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Testify
    Middle-age is no excuse for such an unforgivably bland collection of over-emoted love songs. [Dec 2002, p.102]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It Had to Be You... The Great American Songbook
    The drab orchestrations offer tepid schmaltz, not romance. [Dec 2002, p.112]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Vapor Transmissions
    Singer Jay Gordon spends much of the record predictably preening his way through third-hand Bowie and third-rate Simon LeBon impressions while the band labour on a set of half-baked electro-metal...
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