Billboard's Scores
- Music
For 1,720 reviews, this publication has graded:
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71% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | The Boxing Mirror | |
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Lowest review score: | Hefty Fine |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,457 out of 1720
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Mixed: 240 out of 1720
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Negative: 23 out of 1720
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In a live setting, Oasis are too often just another band churning out big, bad anthems for the masses.... it remains troubling that a band with so much quality material buried as b-sides or minor album cuts needs to resort to pointless, set-padding covers of Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My," and the Beatles' "Helter Skelter."- Billboard
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Even the few noteworthy moments are lost in the banality of the music. [15 Oct 2005]- Billboard
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The five Brits waste their major talents on midtempo songs like "Everyday" and "Four Letter Word."- Billboard
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His least demanding work ever, steeped in the traditions of pop and rock.- Billboard
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It doesn't always make for an enjoyable listening experience, on or off the dancefloor.- Billboard
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The lyrics seem ripped from a teenager's journal, and his regular-guy vocals can't make them compelling.- Billboard
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While he is certainly an innovative producer, that originality fails to translate on "In My Mind."- Billboard
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Not every album can be a tour de force, but Keenan is normally much better than this even on his worst days.- Billboard
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A baker's dozen's worth of featherlight ditties that range in quality from guilty pleasures to already-dated clunkers.- Billboard
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It is P.O.D.'s lyrics, which are stuck in adolescent neutral, that doom "Testify" to feeling like a relic. [28 Jan 2006]- Billboard
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Tends more toward the "dance" elements of IDM than the "intelligent," reducing UNKLE's trip-hop origins and innovative beats to overdrawn synth wank-fests.- Billboard
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Nearly every cut shoots for maximum radio mileage, and the album's lack of stimulation makes such pandering harder to overlook. [20 May 2006]- Billboard
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If you dug the sweaty rowdiness of Mooney's last records, you'll find that the Matrix scrub-job has removed most of their traces of grit, grime and rock.- Billboard
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Hardly anything here makes an impression after repeated listens. What's worse, even fewer tracks possess the spark or invention for which Phish is revered.- Billboard
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To be sure, Osborne proves again she has a wonderfully rich, sensual, and powerful voice that commands respect. But besides a winning cover of Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love," she chooses to showcase it among mostly flat and/or generic arrangements.- Billboard
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On "Machina," the Pumpkins don't sound creatively bankrupt as much as they sound burned out, uninspired, and not living up to their potential.- Billboard
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[Ashcroft] possesses one of the definitive rock voices and has an undeniable gift for melody, but he pairs those talents here with truly insipid lyrics and uninspired MOR arrangements.- Billboard
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But if t.A.T.u. represents the tippy-top of the marketing universe, it also represents the bottom third of pop songwriting.- Billboard
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The Grammy-garnering producer certainly shows good taste in his selection (favoring 20th-century pieces) and obviously knows his way around a mixing board, but his make-overs are ultimately bloodless, even banal.- Billboard
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Like its predecessor, the equally undercooked "The New Danger," there is a sense that a deadline crawled up before the music was cemented. [13 Jan 2007]- Billboard
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No, kids, it's not that scatological jokes aren't funny, just that these scatological jokes aren't funny.- Billboard
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