Q Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 8,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
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42% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | A Hero's Death | |
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| Lowest review score: | Gemstones |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4,112 out of 8545
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Mixed: 4,355 out of 8545
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Negative: 78 out of 8545
8545
music
reviews
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The studio out-takes are where the real action is: a strummy Julia sounds like it could have been on Rubber Soul, the Take 17 version of Helter Skelter is thrillingly raw and there's a spectral early take of While My Guitar... he Beatles were clearly having a ball here. [Dec 2018, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Familiarity hasn't taken all the shine off Led Zeppelin IV, because once you get past the aforementioned over-exposed "hits," there's still the frantic Four Sticks and When The Levee Break's big lumbering blues to knock you off your feet again. [Nov 2014, p.125]- Q Magazine
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28 [demos] are included in all their fascinating what-if promise, some heralds of later solo recording. ... This collection catches the band at their peak of their powers, the space between the tension and the tenderness still full of revelation. [Jan 2020, p.116]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2019 -
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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]- Q Magazine
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This remaster makes it glisten like the first time you heard it, while three unreleased tracks show that their vision didn't properly take shape until well into recording. [Aug 2017, p.113]- Q Magazine
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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]- Q Magazine
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George Martin's son Giles's work here is superb. It helps you hear an album you know inside-out as if for the first time. [Jul 2017, p.116]- Q Magazine
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It still sounds fabulous and relevant too, though this Super Deluxe Edition with lots of superfluous add-ons and a super £50-plus price tag to match is surely for completists only. [Aug 2011, p.133]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 9, 2011 -
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The world's finest rock'n'roll combo. [Jul 2015, p.119]- Q Magazine
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This six-disc "Super Deluxe" edition rescues the treasure, including alternative mixes, a complete live concert and nearly two discs' worth of unheard brilliance. [Jan 2020, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2019 -
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Doolittle was a breakthrough.... The Peel Sessions and B-sides aren't essential, but the previously unreleased demos are fascinating. [Jan 2015, p.134]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 8, 2014 -
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The sheer variety of music is astounding. [Jan 2013, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Beery, teary, rootsy and rollicking: it's singalong genius at play. [Dec 2014, p.122]- Q Magazine
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Everything you love about the band is here, along with anything you don't. ... The demos drive home just how beautifully The Smiths played together. [Nov 2017, p.116]- Q Magazine
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The record's sexual frankness unfairly overshadowed the intricate songwriting idiosyncrasies or Phair's deadpan articulation of relationship dynamics. ... [The Girly-Sound tapes] provide a fascinating roadmap to her debut. [Jun 2018, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Abbey Road showed The Beatles at the very peak of their collective powers. ... It's certainly not the sound of a band who were sick of the sight of one another. This is something echoed in the unreleased takes and demos included here. [Nov 2019, p.119]- Q Magazine
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This willfully obscure yet eerily beautiful music sounds all the more absorbing in remastered form. [May 2014, p.124]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2014 -
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One of the best yet: a sprawling 19-track min-movie, which takes in obscure left-field rock, creepy children's choirs, bucolic ambient and sombre Celtic poetry. [Dec 2016, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 17, 2016 -
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Reissued with a raft of extras, it remains a masterpiece of uneasy listening. [Dec 2016, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2016 -
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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]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2012 -
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Upgrading previous remasterings, Page's personal touch brings out even more detail.... Each album's companion disc supplies both pleasure and an education. [Jul 2014, p.120]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2014 -
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Led Zeepelin would get bigger, louder and very imperious very soon. But they'd rarely sound like they were having as much fun as they do here. [Nov 2014, p.125]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2014 -
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Sound System gives the full, eclectic picture. [Oct 2013, p.116]- Q Magazine
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The real revelation of this new Smile is its melodic depth, even if lyricist Van Dyke Parks's oblique ruminations seem unnecessarily flowery. [Nov 2004, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Upgrading previous remasterings, Page's personal touch brings out even more detail.... Each album's companion disc supplies both pleasure and an education. [Jul 2014, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Presents Led Zeppelin in all their ragged glory and heavy splendour. [Jul 2003, p.119]- Q Magazine
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It's a challenging, ambitious combination of words and music that becomes increasingly absorbing over time. [Jun 2015, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Posted Oct 22, 2019 -
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This exemplary boxset tells the whole, rather sorry saga of how a band who seemingly had everything going for them ended up with precisely nothing. [Oct 2009, p.122]- Q Magazine