Q Magazine's Scores

  • Music
For 4,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 38% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 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
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
4,911 music reviews
    • Metascore: 100
    • Critic Score 100
    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]
    • Metascore: 100
    • Critic Score 100
    What burns from the music is The Clash's defining characteristic: the fact that they were insatiable omnivores. [Oct 2004, p.136]
    • Metascore: 98
    • Critic Score 100
    Blue Lines doesn't need [extras]. It was a classic in the truest sense, and unimprovable template that sound like it was recorded yesterday--or tomorrow. [Dec 2012, p.118]
    • Metascore: 97
    • Critic Score 90
    Nothing short of remarkable. [Jun 2004, p.102]
    • Metascore: 97
    • Critic Score 100
    Presents Led Zeppelin in all their ragged glory and heavy splendour. [Jul 2003, p.119]
    • Metascore: 96
    • Critic Score 100
    The bonus material on both albums offer up further evidence that this was the Pumpkins' purple path. [Jan 2012, p.130]
    • Metascore: 95
    • Critic Score 100
    A snapshot of one of the most vital, intellectual, breathlessly thrilling bands Britain's ever produced. [Dec. 2011 p. 143]
    • Metascore: 93
    • Critic Score 90
    One utterly badass album. [Jul 2004, p.116]
    • Metascore: 93
    • Critic Score 100
    This reissue underlines how much Achtung Baby's high-wire triumph owed to an era in flux and it's as excessive as it needs to be. [Dec. 2011 p. 138]
    • Metascore: 92
    • Critic Score 90
    A record sufficiently impressive to suggest that White Blood Cells caught Jack and Meg using only a fraction of their talents. [Apr 2003, p.98]
    • Metascore: 92
    • Critic Score 100
    The vindication of this luxury raw Power is it bestows still greater kudos on Ron's band. [Jun 2010, p.140]
    • Metascore: 91
    • Critic Score 100
    The best album of 2004 so far, and by some distance. [Jun 2004, p.92]
    • Metascore: 91
    • Critic Score 100
    Throughout, quality doesn't waver; always sensually and intellectually rigorous, her songs touch on degrees of romantic disaffection and beyond with a sometimes uncomfortable gaze, and still sound freshly minted. [Jan 2013, p.119]
    • Metascore: 91
    • Critic Score 100
    It makes the case for some long-forgotten virtues: fast songs, staccato chords, songs about trysts in squalid apartments. You know, the good stuff.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Critic Score 100
    These lavish Deluxe Editions are fat with rare tracks and live performances on accompanying DVDs - they are all the Beat anyone could ever wish for. [Aug 2012, p.112]
    • Metascore: 90
    • Critic Score 90
    It's so out of step with most indie rock it's as if it's been beamed from outer space. [Apr 2005, p.126]
    • Metascore: 89
    • Critic Score 90
    Deep voiced, disquieting and bristling with intelligence, Hobo Sapiens is a reminder of how intoxicating an artist Cale can be. [Nov 2003, p.107]
    • Metascore: 89
    • Critic Score 100
    Twenty years, five discs, but Nevermind is always more than the sum of its parts. [Oct 2011, p.133]
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 100
    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]
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 100
    While 1992-2012 is no substitute for the seamless ebb and flow of dubnobasswith myheadman and Second Toughest In the Infants, there are some glorious moments. [Mar 2012, p.114]
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 100
    Once again, Radiohead have proven themselves priceless. [Dec 2007, p.107]
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 90
    He remains rap's finest storyteller. [Jun 2006, p.115]
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 100
    Daft Punk's best album in a career that's already redefined dance music at least twice. It is, in short, a mind-blower. [Jun 2013, p.88]
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 100
    A magical kingdom of noise that's equal parts Disney's Fantasia and Echo & The Bunnymen's lavish Ocean Rain. [Apr 2007, p.107]
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 100
    They may well have delivered their masterpiece. [Sept. 2010, p. 110]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 100
    Her state-of-the-nation address. Stunning. [Feb. 2011, p. 112]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Not only do the rhythms here sound tighter and more intensely focused, Murphy's presence as a songwriter and frontman is a revelation. [Apr 2007, p.110]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    A leftfield classic. [Oct 2003, p.100]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Cut, copy and paste this definitive record into your world. [Jul 2005, p.115]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Such moments of wry genius make a very special record. [Oct 2003, p.104]