For 5,918 reviews, this publication has graded:
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34% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 67
| Highest review score: | Magic | |
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| Lowest review score: | Know Your Enemy |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,633 out of 5918
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Mixed: 2,245 out of 5918
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Negative: 40 out of 5918
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[Alex] Ebert's voice is the most polarizing set of pipes this side of the Darkness' Justin Hawkins, and most listeners won't be able to get past it.- Rolling Stone
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Enjoy the band's extraterrestrial makeover; it's far more amusing than the music.- Rolling Stone
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Ho-hum singer-songwriterly tunes packed with sentimental poetry. [1 May 2003, p.56]- Rolling Stone
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Long on verbosity but short on personality. [19 Aug 2004, p.123]- Rolling Stone
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With On and On, this Hawaiian surfer's croon evokes the mellow-yellow moan of Donovan but without the weirdness that made that psychedelic folkie compelling.- Rolling Stone
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Espinoza's melodies evaporate in a way Smith's never did. [9 Dec 2004, p.180]- Rolling Stone
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City is so drab that the cameos from the Libertines' frontmen get lost in the darkness.- Rolling Stone
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Overbaked synth funk...Golden Greats cries out for a hotshot guitarist to take charge of the music -- somebody like John Squire.- Rolling Stone
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The album equivalent of a Civil War reenactment. [30 Sep 2004, p.190]- Rolling Stone
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Would've been far more compelling had he been limited to forty minutes max. [5 Aug 2004, p.109]- Rolling Stone
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Ultimately, the inspirational message... gets lost in uninspired rhymes.- Rolling Stone
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Much of the time it sounds like Clinic are just playing around with their noisemakers and not having much fun. [2 Sep 2004, p.141]- Rolling Stone
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If Enya were a Pokemon, she'd be Jigglypuff, the little pink monster who renders her opponents powerless by singing them to sleep.... The Irish multi-instrumentalist-singer-composer's skill at ephemeral sonic watercolors has grown wearisome, like a relative who tells the same stories every holiday.- Rolling Stone
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For people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America's Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon.- Rolling Stone
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Punky but sloppy, as if the band were denied rehearsal time before the tape started rolling.- Rolling Stone
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[Bemberger's] annoyingly wordy yelp carries only a few memorable lines and fewer melodies. [14 Oct 2004, p.98]- Rolling Stone
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The tempos and melodies drag throughout; it's as though we've heard Mann sing these songs before, only here her understated passion comes off more like overstated indifference.- Rolling Stone
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Third Eye Blind are as earnest and energetic as ever but sadly uncatchy.- Rolling Stone
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Pryor delivers wounded-boy bromides that are so shopworn, they sound indifferent.- Rolling Stone
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The sludge is so overbearing that anyone born during the Eighties will wonder what once made them special. [28 Oct 2004, p.103]- Rolling Stone
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When Stacy Jones moans, "I've been getting by on nothing" halfway through The Art of Losing, he achieves the album's one honest moment.- Rolling Stone
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This album could easily have been released in the mid-Nineties, when Size and his V Records crew pointed the way forward. Ten years later, it is just a skittery nostalgia trip.- Rolling Stone
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Folklore is a Whoa, Nelly! redux, without a single as good as "I'm Like a Bird."- Rolling Stone
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Chingy is charming in presence and in singsong flow, but not particularly engaging. [25 Nov 2004, p.91]- Rolling Stone
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Though Carlton's a better lyricist than faded contemporaries such as Michelle Branch, that fussy piano tends to muscle her out of her own songs.- Rolling Stone
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Ondrasik's self-pitying ballads overflow with dewy-eyed dreaminess, as his vocals swoon and swoop - think of a more annoying Chris Martin.- Rolling Stone
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Too much of Welcome to the North sounds like emo on Ecstasy -- all hot and bothered without much to say.- Rolling Stone
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Rote emo-core, all predictable quiet-loud shifts and overwrought vocal melodies. [5 Aug 2004, p.108]- Rolling Stone
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Despite a handful of strong cuts, Destiny Fulfilled sounds like the kind of album you make when you're saving your best material for your next solo album.- Rolling Stone
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Dull missteps such as "Sickalicious" and "Into You" show a lack of creative vision that stunts him when the hot beats run dry.- Rolling Stone
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They falter by attempting to stray from the formula they've mastered. [28 Oct 2004, p.100]- Rolling Stone
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Cry remains contrived, an album of crocodile tears from an entertainer who can sing anything but often means nothing.- Rolling Stone
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Only a handful of tracks -- including "No Phone" and the surprisingly sweet "She'll Hang the Baskets" -- push pleasure buttons like they ought to.- Rolling Stone
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Be As You Are is plenty pretty, but aside from the mildly Caribbean-flavored "Guitars and Tiki Bars," it sounds like Chesney's drummer never got back from fetching the Coronas.- Rolling Stone
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Room Noises has some encouraging, lovely moments, but Eisley have yet to prove that they're anything more than a killer talent-show entry.- Rolling Stone
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While Garnier's trickling melodies and spare snares hint at mystery, mostly they leave you longing for a beat.- Rolling Stone
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Awake has the occasional spiffy tune... but it's padded with pop-rock toss-offs and an unlistenable, ten-minute instrumental noise jam.- Rolling Stone
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For all their songcraft, Robbers haven't yet filched enough ideas to fill an album. [10 Mar 2005, p.115]- Rolling Stone
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His nice-guy-with-a-retrograde-flow shtick is fast running out of steam.- Rolling Stone
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They sound like a marginally smarter American modern-rock act, screaming their pain over raw-boned riffs that could sure use some technicolor pizazz.- Rolling Stone
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Syncopated sludge that will connect only with aging burnouts and the angriest of young 'uns.- Rolling Stone
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The most downbeat record he's ever made, with none of his usual humor. [19 May 2005, p.81]- Rolling Stone
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Flaccid beats mean that his solo debut -- despite guest spots from Eminem and Big Boi -- too often falls flat.- Rolling Stone
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Despite a few arresting moments, such as the big-muscled title track, the band never stumbles on much that's recognizably its own.- Rolling Stone
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Made In China soon disintegrates into demo-quality slackness. [8 Sep 2005, p.116]- Rolling Stone
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It's when Staind crank down the sludge and slacken the tempos that things get heavy in a bad way. [11 Aug 2005, p.72]- Rolling Stone
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Dragged down by radio-courting melodies and ready-made rhymes, this album's first half is particularly calculated.- Rolling Stone
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Instead of seeming angry or inspired, 311 just end up sounding like the pop world has passed them by.- Rolling Stone
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A mediocre follow-up with nothing as great as "Redneck Woman" or "Here for the Party."- Rolling Stone
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On Somebody's Miracle, she goes for a folksy, acoustic style, but she still oversings, holding notes too long and tackling pop choruses she doesn't have half the voice for.- Rolling Stone
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Although spunky cuties Julia Volkova and Lena Katina have improved their English-pronunciation skills, the hooks they're handed this second time around are decidedly duller.- Rolling Stone
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All the Right Reasons is so depressing, you're almost glad Kurt's not around to hear it.- Rolling Stone
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A CD of biblical rap would have been vastly more interesting than just tepid updates of the Run-DMC sound. [3 Nov 2005, p.96]- Rolling Stone
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The album de-emphasizes the (very) guilty pop pleasures of her 2004 debut in favor of leaden I-hate-you-Daddy laments.- Rolling Stone
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A largely vocals-free mishmash of brittle beats, buzzy sound effects and hipster ambience that sounds great when Dizzee Rascal is rhyming over it but cold and tinny on its own.- Rolling Stone
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In trying to wrest profundity from simplicity, Keys to the World is only profoundly disappointing.- Rolling Stone
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The most notable aspect of Testify, in fact, is how little P.O.D., or their guitars, have to say.- Rolling Stone
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There are a couple of decent Brit-pop numbers... but the rest is utterly forgettable, shoddily produced retro rock that at its worst sounds like a Brighton-accented version of the Spin Doctors, minus the hit songs and amusing facial hair.- Rolling Stone
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Much of Flat-Pack Philosophy is mired in a muddle. [9 Mar 2006, p.94]- Rolling Stone
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Gilmour sounds like his own man here, but you wish he had someone--anyone--to push him beyond these new adventures in tedium. [9 Mar 2006, p.92]- Rolling Stone
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The real problem with coffeehouse stuff like "We Could Go and Start Again" isn't that it's corny--it's just tofu-bland. [6 Apr 2006, p.69]- Rolling Stone
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An absence of memorable narratives, punch lines and wordplay makes the songs pass without distinction.- Rolling Stone
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A handful of songs... work up some palatable L.A. pop, but those moments are surrounded by singer-songwriter cliches and painfully precious asides. [4 May 2006, p.59]- Rolling Stone
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The middling tempos of plodding tracks like "Halo the Harpoons" and "It Takes Time" underscore the new lineup's shortcomings.- Rolling Stone
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In the end... The Big Bang feels as hollow as a CGI-fueled Hollywood blockbuster.- Rolling Stone
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Kowalczyk is revisiting themes he's been mining for years. The band's signature sound of slowly rising choruses punctuated by Kowalczyk's rumbling wail has also grown quite stale.- Rolling Stone
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The tight arrangements are impressive in their guitar-bass-drums spareness, but the overall feel still falls somewhere between sterile and silly. [7 Sep 2006, p.107]- Rolling Stone
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Second Round is wholly lacking in the playfulness that made his debut, Cheers, a varied delight. [21 Sep 2006, p.88]- Rolling Stone
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Almost all of the tunes here (particularly "So Excited") try to replicate Jackson's early work, with diminishing returns.- Rolling Stone
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On Sam's Town they seem like they're trying to make a big statement, except they have nothing to say.- Rolling Stone
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Seemingly every track... contains nothing but raw bile toward those who have wronged Alexakis. [21 Sep 2006, p.88]- Rolling Stone
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Unfortunately, Blood Brothers don't actually make you scared, which any good noise band should.- Rolling Stone
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For the most part, the old magical feeling sure ain't coming back. [2 Nov 2006, p.78]- Rolling Stone
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She's doing the same thing she did last time, except it's not as much fun.- Rolling Stone
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