They fail to relocate it [their exuberance] on the follow-up, which if anything, is even drearier. [Sep 2011, p.104]

An album that's--unusually--both disorienting and immensely tedious. [Nov 2012, p.103]

Only Haim's contribution to Red Eye enlivens the tedium. [Aug 2013, p.99]

A risible attempt to recapture long-vanished glories. [Nov 2007, p.137]

It's marooned in novelty. [Apr 2005, p.121]

The only area in which JC tops Justin is cheesy double entendres. [Jun 2004, p.96]

They may still want to party every night, but it would take a Kiss Kasket full of Viagra to animate this limp cock rock. [Dec 2009, p. 116]

Not good. [Oct 2012, p.106]

Give this album a very wide berth. [Feb 2011, p.120]

The title track and Come Out To LA hit home with the impact of a piece of GCSE Social Studies course work. [Apr 2018, p.108]

Most of it already sounds a decade old. [Dec 2003, p.137]

As bland as paint. [May 2005, p.110]

Numbingly tedious, bashed-out-in-an-afternoon grunt-a-longs about, well, numbingly tedious stuff that we may already have come to term with. [Aug 2012, p.109]

The band sound bored. [Dec 2012, p.103]

The problem here isn't sullying Jackson's memory and reputation: he was perfectly capable of doing that himself. The problem is that Michael simply isn't good enough. [Feb. 2011, p. 108]

A numbing montage of half-formed ideas and too-slick production. [Jul 2003, p.100]

They wouldn't be totally awful if Client A could actually sing. [Oct 2003, p.103]

Tough to endure even once. [Aug 2003, p.110]

Alas, they're not very good. [Feb 2005, p.102]

There are no real songs here, only weak gags and unfunny skits. [Jan 2007, p.152]

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]

If that hardly sounds like the greatest thing to happen to hip hop in recent times, it's nothing compared to his fourth LP, which is a litany of lazy beats and even lazier rhymes; "Your mama she gets crazy," he instructs on Krazy. [Dec 2009, p. 120]

This is hollow, pretentious and deeply dull music. [Apr 2007, p.116]

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]

They run a schizophrenic gamut of cinematic moods that bleed into one another jammed together into one disorienting hour that reaches its end without any discernible narrative reward. [Dec 2012, p.104]

Joel and Benji Madden's fifth album of anthemic dumbness. [Dec. 2010, p. 110]

At least Nickelback know how to write a tune. [Jul 2003, p.104]

Musically, it sucks. [Feb 2005, p.98]