Alternative Press' Scores

  • Music
For 3,071 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Major/Minor
Lowest review score: 0 Results May Vary
Score distribution:
3071 music reviews
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Man, this thing sucks. [Oct 2004, p.146]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The lyrics on Folker make the tripe in Westerberg's early solo material... read like T.S. Eliot. [Oct 2004, p.144]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Disastrous. [Oct 2004, p.144]
    • Alternative Press
    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Plays out like a tepid, second-rate version of Iowa, which pretty much makes it a third-rate anything else. [Jul 2004, p.142]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    There's not much left for the Vines' frontman other than his music, which on Winning Days seems more like an afterthought--if not the work of an unbearably bad Oasis record. [Apr 2004, p.98]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Patton's latest fantasy-headache is a one-song, 55-minute conceptual misfire that careens from acid-casualty chamber music to high-velocity cartoon metal. [Feb 2004, p.82]
    • Alternative Press
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Forgettable to anybody with a soul. [Jan 2004, p.103]
    • Alternative Press
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Sounds like a teenage Faith No More at their first practice. [Sep 2003, p.116]
    • Alternative Press
    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Nauseatingly upbeat. [Oct 2003, p.138]
    • Alternative Press
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tricky without edges and paranoia is freakin' dull. [Sep 2003, p.118]
    • Alternative Press
    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The guitars are processed into high-tech oblivion, and every song is eight minutes long when it should be five. [Aug 2003, p.100]
    • Alternative Press
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Painfully pretentious, plodding, self-indulgent drivel. [Jun 2003, p.97]
    • Alternative Press
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Since when is pairing Jewel's poetry outtakes with modern-rock riffs groundbreaking? [Aug 2003, p.102]
    • Alternative Press
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Half this record sounds like a field recording from a daycare play room. [Mar 2002, p.84]
    • Alternative Press
    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    In one word: lackluster. In two words: dead boring. [Aug 2001, p.90]
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