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
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 2,074 out of 4911
-
Mixed: 2,767 out of 4911
-
Negative: 70 out of 4911
4,911
music reviews
-
-
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] -
-
-
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] -
-
-
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]Posted Nov 29, 2012 -
-
-
-
Critic Score 100
Presents Led Zeppelin in all their ragged glory and heavy splendour. [Jul 2003, p.119] -
-
-
Critic Score 100
The bonus material on both albums offer up further evidence that this was the Pumpkins' purple path. [Jan 2012, p.130]Posted Dec 22, 2011 -
-
-
Critic Score 100
A snapshot of one of the most vital, intellectual, breathlessly thrilling bands Britain's ever produced. [Dec. 2011 p. 143]Posted Jan 3, 2012 -
-
-
-
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]Posted Dec 15, 2011 -
-
-
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] -
-
-
Critic Score 100
The vindication of this luxury raw Power is it bestows still greater kudos on Ron's band. [Jun 2010, p.140] -
-
-
Critic Score 100
The best album of 2004 so far, and by some distance. [Jun 2004, p.92] -
-
-
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]Posted Jan 3, 2013 -
-
-
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. -
-
-
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]Posted Aug 3, 2012 -
-
-
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] -
-
-
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] -
-
-
Critic Score 100
Twenty years, five discs, but Nevermind is always more than the sum of its parts. [Oct 2011, p.133]Posted Sep 29, 2011 -
-
-
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] -
-
-
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]Posted May 8, 2012 -
-
-
Critic Score 100
Once again, Radiohead have proven themselves priceless. [Dec 2007, p.107] -
-
-
-
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]Posted May 13, 2013 -
-
-
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] -
-
-
Posted Feb 15, 2011
-
-
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] -
-
-
-
Critic Score 90
Cut, copy and paste this definitive record into your world. [Jul 2005, p.115] -
-
-
Critic Score 90
Such moments of wry genius make a very special record. [Oct 2003, p.104] -