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For 3,119 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Who Kill
Lowest review score: 0 Fireflies
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,689 out of 3119
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3119
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3119
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I Dreamed A Dream
    Because the songs are so riddled with cliches and are largely too familiar, and because the music is so tepid and tasteful to a fault, the album simply isn't able to overcome that lack of depth.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Baptized
    It sounds like Daughtry's been listening to a lot of Train and EDM, or at least the band's manager has, because the tempos are a bit peppier than the normal plodding 80bpm post-grunge yawning we're used to, and all of it is slathered with super-slick, edge-sanding modern-pop production, including the surprisingly liberal use of Auto-Tune.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
    The results are disastrous.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Slipway Fires
    The rest of the band, a soulless cooperative between Sweden and the U.K., does their best to back him up, issuing rote, lifeless rock tracks that build appropriately to fist-pumping peaks, but it's Borrell's vocals that press this album past mediocrity into embarrassing territory.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Sounds from Nowheresville
    It all amounts to a great deal of bluster for bluster's sake and becomes tiresome almost instantly.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Incredible Machine
    Though its style alone makes it a sure bet to be hailed as progressive by those who only like country music that doesn't sound a damn thing like country music, and just as sure to be reviled by country music purists, the real problems with the album are with its failures of execution and its inexplicable aesthetic choices.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Teenage Dream
    The remainder of Teenage Dream is a raunchy pop nightmare, with A-list producers lining up to churn out some of the worst work of their careers.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Pick Of Destiny OST
    Whereas [debut album] Tenacious D was a brilliant parody of the blood-and-thunder metal genre, functioning as a cohesive, hilarious whole, The Pick Of Destiny is mere bong resin.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Listen
    Not only is none of this fresh, its fast-food vacuity is presented as proud branding.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Songs From Black Mountain
    It's sad to see a once-promising band reduced to dribbling out a mewling, half-baked effort such as this, an album with no redeeming value beyond soundtracking your next visit to Supercuts.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Shock Value II
    Justin Timberlake and Drake both offer admirable turns, but are forced to operate with unenviably tepid production. The overall laziness of that facet is even more inexcusable coming from one of the most renowned producers of the last decade.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    #willpower
    Undoubtedly crafted to be an easy listen, the overstuffed, lumbering, and joyless #willpower is quite the opposite.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Cattle Callin
    Hank 3 may be one of the most creative recording artists in music today, but Cattle Callin proves that not all of his ideas are good ones.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Skins
    Many of the album’s nine songs feel unfinished, with only half managing to crack the two-minute mark.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Imperial Blaze
    Some singles may work their way loose, but as a whole the album will is too long and monotonous; the affected style of Paul's voice, fine for the occasional single, becomes a grating trial over 21 songs.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    God Did
    God Did lacks an organized artistic vision, or at least a sense of purpose beyond engaging in purely attention-grabbing theatrics.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Rebirth Of Venus
    Were the central conceit not so half-assed and Lee's lyrics not so shallow, Venus might qualify as actively misogynist in a way that could be interesting to engage and dissect. As is, the album is simple to an annoying, tiresome degree.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Graffiti
    Sadly, the only compelling thing about the incoherent Graffiti is the material (both external and internal) that makes it even less palatable than a simply below-average collection of paint-by-numbers R&B beats.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Slick Dogs And Ponies
    Though more adventurous than 2005's "The Best Little Secrets Are Kept," the band's sophomore LP, Slick Dogs and Ponies, still rings soulless at its core.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rebirth
    The result is not a rock record as much as a total misperception of what makes a rock record. The base elements are all here (the sex and sleaze and guitar solos), but they're delivered in such a flat, awkward way that they feel interpreted by an alien.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Playing With Fire
    This disc is just as disposable and dumb as you'd expect.
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