The New York Times' Scores

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For 2,072 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1
Lowest review score: 0 Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,594 out of 2072
  2. Mixed: 443 out of 2072
  3. Negative: 35 out of 2072
2072 music reviews
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Monkey Business
    Perhaps it was inevitable that a group like this would eventually emerge, peddling an energetic but inoffensive variant of hip-hop. But did we have any way of knowing that the results would be so unpleasant? [6 Jun 2005]
    • The New York Times
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Good Morning Revival
    A mystifyingly inept CD that includes some of the worst lyrics you will — or, with any luck, won’t — hear all year. [26 Mar 2007]
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Rebirth
    The songs might have been better as parodies than as imitations, although “Knockout” — a Coldplay homage backing a raunchy lyric — comes close to being both.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    All The Right Reasons
    For hard-rock ridiculousness, Nickelback is tough to beat. [3 Oct 2005]
    • The New York Times
    • 49 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album
    Could we not? Signed, the Grinch.
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