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For 764 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Naked Truth
Lowest review score: 10 God Says No
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 517 out of 764
  2. Mixed: 199 out of 764
  3. Negative: 48 out of 764
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    22 Dreams
    22 Dreams, Weller's ninth solo effort, is complete bollocks.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dark Horse
    Their latest is ridiculously brazen, comically outsized, and defiantly Bruckheimer-esque.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tha Carter IV
    This is a bad rap album, and one that needed the shock of Internet promotion that the Jay-Z diss on "It's Good" gave it when C4 leaked.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
    On the whole, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water feels like an interminable groan, a harried hustle toward obsolescence. Rather than creating a cathartic requiem for, say, the impending dotcom depression, this turgid non-effort doesn't even live up to the mookish reputation refuted with such salacious fervor on "Take a Look Around."
    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    By The Way
    Kiedis's lyrics are absolutely baffling.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Brother Is To Son
    The first few minutes sound like very early David Bowie without Mick Ronson, electricity, or songs. The rest is so annoying that after 15 minutes you'll fondly remember grade-school sing-alongs and eating paste during arts-and-crafts.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    St. Anger
    Songs like "Frantic," "Dirty Window," and even the balladesque "Sweet Amber" stop and start, cut to pieces by groove-robbing edits that replace the guitar harmonies on which Metallica built an industry.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn
    Once they could juggle being both captivating and grating. Today, they're just the latter.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    God Says No
    The new Monster Magnet album is kinda crappy, and they'd better check themselves before they quite irrevocably wreck themselves.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Lost And Found
    The lamest album that'll be released this year.
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