Billboard.com's Scores
- Music
For 825 reviews, this publication has graded:
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81% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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16% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | The Complete Matrix Tapes [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Jackie |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 750 out of 825
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Mixed: 75 out of 825
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Negative: 0 out of 825
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 19, 2012
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 17, 2012
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Those who have witnessed the group's floor-shaking live shows might be a bit disarmed by the deliberately dense and lo-fi production of "Boys & Girls."- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 16, 2012
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We come to "A Wasteland Companion" with certain expectations. Happily, Ward meets them.- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 16, 2012
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Blunderbuss isn't just (arguably) the best album of the year so far, it opens up a whole new world for him.- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 13, 2012
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 5, 2012
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Producer Greg Wells (Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Adele) dresses all that [emotional complexity and angst] up with greater sonic sophistication, guiding the All-American Rejects toward a more bombastic brand of pop.- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 4, 2012
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An album that could've easily come from other Mississippi River stops where horns and funk pump through the bloodstreams-Chicago, Memphis or St. Louis.- Billboard.com
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It's indeed better the second time around, no matter who's running her down.- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 2, 2012
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While Jourgensen seems re-engaged with his music, he's also more disinterested than ever in the wider pop culture.- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 2, 2012
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Rich organ swells and muscular horn charts mark many of the 10 tracks, with a live, off-the-floor groove that levitates.- Billboard.com
- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Mar 28, 2012
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As comeback albums go, though, this one feels unusually natural.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 23, 2012
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How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?, is a slap-upside-the-head reminder, a collection of heartfelt confessionals, evocative insights and provocative position statements.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 22, 2012
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Many of the dozen songs achieve the kind of meatiness that the group approached tentatively on The Fray.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 16, 2012
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 6, 2012
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A playful effort that comes from an ease with pop hooks and power-pop chords, a knowledge of how to employ a steady beat.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 2, 2012
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The sparse production recalls Cohen's 1988 release, "I'm Your Man," by throwing the Canadian balladeer's ever-deepening voice and his mix of poetic flair and pitch-black humor into satisfyingly stark relief.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Jan 27, 2012
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Frontman Randy Blythe still growls his guts out while his bandmates hammer away at economy-sized grooves that suggest an extreme-sports version of Southern rock.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jan 23, 2012
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Dec 1, 2011
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You can hear the result of all those showbiz connections in the radio-ready economy of high-sheen hook bombs.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 29, 2011
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 23, 2011
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Based on David Lynch's reputation, one can expect his first album to be either weird or cinematic. He delivers on both counts on Crazy Clown Time.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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It all sounds sturdy and fits comfortably down the middle, more dependable than daring.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 10, 2011
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Cee Lo Green's pre-"Fuck You" presence on the soundtrack to "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" last year seemed to signal an expansion of the series' indie-dominated musical brand. That opening-up continues here with tunes by hipster-rap MC Theophilus London and Green's pal Bruno Mars.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 9, 2011
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 2, 2011
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Ambition nods to Ross' cartoon grandiosity in "Miami Nights," where Wale details his collection of luxury goods over a jubilant horn riff. Characteristically, though, the album heads in plenty of other directions as well.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 1, 2011
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- Billboard.com
- Posted Oct 31, 2011
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