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For 5,915 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Magic
Lowest review score: 0 Know Your Enemy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,630 out of 5915
  2. Mixed: 2,245 out of 5915
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5915
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Guilt
    Mims has good taste in beats. But this album seems just . . . superfluous.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Curse Of Blondie
    Too much of The Curse would be blandly anonymous if not for Harry's inimitable coo.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Business Casual
    [Bemberger's] annoyingly wordy yelp carries only a few memorable lines and fewer melodies. [14 Oct 2004, p.98]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In The Flesh
    There's admirable sonic purity to these live recordings, but that only underscores the astonishing lack of verve in the performances.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Flat-Pack Philosophy
    Much of Flat-Pack Philosophy is mired in a muddle. [9 Mar 2006, p.94]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ocean Eyes
    Love songs like "On the Wing"--a ballad with a plush, twinkling electro beat where the singer lies awake dreaming of his beloved-- are serious mush, like an amorous e-mail you'll regret in the morning.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Porcelain
    Rote emo-core, all predictable quiet-loud shifts and overwrought vocal melodies. [5 Aug 2004, p.108]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Paradigm Shift
    "Never Never" is a power ballad, and "Love & Meth" is not as funny as one might hope, though the brilliantly titled "Paranoid and Aroused" is.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Neon
    Jay Sean works his fluttery falsetto alongside Rick Ross on "Mars" and finds a serviceably sexy jam with "All on Your Body," which features Ace Hood, but even at its best, Neon barely flickers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While(1<2)
    For his seventh album, Deadmau5 has turned from an electro-house polymath into the world's most unnecessary Nine Inch Nails tribute act.... However, erase the Reznor fan fiction from this 141-minute behemoth, and there's a solid 64-minute house record hidden in there.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    iSouljaBoyTellem
    The beats on iSouljaBoyTellem--built by Soulja and Mr. Collipark--are beefier. And Soulja Boy's willingness to drill songs into your skull is less charming.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Love?
    The reality of Jennifer Lopez is...blah.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shenanigans
    A compilation that never quite jells.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dancehall
    The coldness of the instrumentals is compounded by the duo’s vocal delivery.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Clear as Day
    His debut--a ho-hum jaunt through an America full of dog-eared Bibles, rugged pickup trucks and girls "hot as July, sweet as sunshine"--works overtime playing up his wide-eyed charm.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Day Without Rain
    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.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Grown & Sexy
    Dragged down by radio-courting melodies and ready-made rhymes, this album's first half is particularly calculated.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A River Ain't Too Much To Love
    Veers close to self-parody.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    On An Island
    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]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One Step Forward
    The gentle French lyrics make these already sleep-inducing neo-soul stylings seem even more bland and polite than you'd imagine. [29 May 2003, p.66]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Drag It Up
    Kind of a drag.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The DeAndre Way
    A shaky stab at Soulja manhood, the third disc from the Crank That cutie finds him hitting drinking age, torn between pup and pit bull.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Welcome Back
    Five years at the pulpit have dimmed his flow. [30 Sep 2004, p.190]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Daylight
    A handful of pleasant, tuneful pop songs guaranteed not to disturb the peace.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Detroit Deli: A Taste of Detroit
    Long on verbosity but short on personality. [19 Aug 2004, p.123]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Time of My Life
    They played slick, heroic neo-grunge for the Clear Channel era, where all regions melted into one long, Nickelback impression. They're still clinging to that anthemic plod a decade later, like an eight year-old who can't bear to throw out a dead hamster.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All At Once
    You root for the good intentions and enjoy the glints of sunlight from singer/viola player Anna Bulbrook. But portentous verses thud like birds against fuselage.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    20 Y.O.
    Almost all of the tunes here (particularly "So Excited") try to replicate Jackson's early work, with diminishing returns.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Educated Guess
    On Educated Guess, which DiFranco wrote, produced, recorded and mixed entirely on her own, this awkward, improbable tendency goes unchecked, as does DiFranco's penchant for jarring arrangements.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Language
    MNEK is a strong singer capable of bracing jumps into his falsetto register. But he seems to have been so immersed in writing for others that he’s lost his own voice.
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