DJ Booth's Scores
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For 155 reviews, this publication has graded:
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74% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Good Kid, M.A.A.D City | |
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Lowest review score: | Paula |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 132 out of 155
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Mixed: 23 out of 155
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Negative: 0 out of 155
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How Do You Do is a great listen, but...there's just no getting around the fact that Mayer Hawthorne isn't an especially strong singer.- DJ Booth
- Posted Oct 7, 2011
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That leaves us with a placeholder project while Dream sorts out some contractual "issues" with Def Jam over his delayed fourth album Diary of a Madman, and frankly I'll take this placeholder over 90% of R&B's official projects.- DJ Booth
- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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Cole World is full of evidence that when Cole sits down to write a hit, he mysteriously loses that intangible quality that first earned him these weighty expectations.- DJ Booth
- Posted Sep 22, 2011
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Maybe he's burnt out, maybe he just doesn't care as much anymore, but whatever the reason, Tha Carter IV just doesn't feel like one of the biggest albums of the year – at all.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 30, 2011
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To play the devil's advocate to the devil's advocate I just played, Thursday does shown a sonic growth from House of Balloons. It even dares – gasp – to up the tempo, bringing in a rapid fire hi-hat to propel the hook of Life of the Party and giving Heaven or Las Vegas a multi-instrument, layered sound we hadn't heard from them before.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 29, 2011
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There's no doubt about it, there's greatness lurking in Game, and in R.E.D. Album. Let's just hope that from here on out he'll find the consistency he needs to truly claim that greatness.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 23, 2011
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The truth is that while far from perfect, this is a more complex and well executed album than the vast majority of anything we'll get this year. Or put more simply, who's really challenging Kanye West and Jay-Z for hip-hop's throne. Seriously. Who?- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 9, 2011
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Listeners may be able to follow Rock home and live vicariously through him, but for thousands that is their home. There's no leaving, and those are the people who Follow Me Home was truly made for.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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There's just no contemporary precedent for music like this. And that might just be the best sign of all.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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While Rowland continues to define her own sound, it still feels like she's giving us who she thinks we want to hear, not who she is.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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King of Hearts, his fourth studio album, is strictly for the grown and sexy. It may not be a new school classic (it's not) but this is a damn good album.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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There's a fine line between consistency and monotony, so while The Cool Kids' style can, over the course of a project, begin to feel like a drone, these bursts of change keep When Fish Ride feeling fresh.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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We'll simply have to look at I'm Gay as a sign that B might not prove to be the flash in the pan that so many haters hope he is.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Section80 may not be a sacred text but I've got the feeling that in five years it may just prove to be prophetic.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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If every album from here on sounds like Planet Pit the public will begin to forget just what made him so special in the first place, but right here, right now, it's Pitbull's world and we're just living partying in it.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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If you consider dressing up putting on clean socks, if you know what the streets smell like at four in the morning, if you consider Shook Ones Pt. II the perfect track to kick back to, you'll have Random Axe on repeat for weeks.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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If you've ever found yourself pouring over the lyrics to a Eminem or Royce song, trying to break down each metaphor and punchline, you'll eat Hell up.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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6's & 7's is a hard album to deliver a final verdict. It's an album that was made for a very specific group, everyone else be damned, and so while I honestly can't say I'm a full fledged Techaholic, I do have to acknowledge that for many this album will be nothing short of epic.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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While Tinie's obviously talented, I honestly can't hear what all the excitement is over. Sure something will get lost in translation, but even on mega hit Written in the Stars I'm just not catching any lyricism that stands out. Then again, maybe that's what makes Tinie so popular.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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If he was hoping to prime his artists for individual success, he's got a long way to go. But if he was simply looking to keep Maybach's name on everyone mind via a loosely defined collection of bangers, well then it looks like Rick Ross still can't do wrong.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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While other artists have struggled to contain both their lofty ambitions and animal instincts on the same album (see also, David Banner), and while it does have its low points and high points, Pl3dge sounds remarkably cohesive.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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At first listen, you'll think this album is a disappointment and didn't live up to the hype. And maybe it didn't, but this isn't Bastard--it's an album with a much deeper theme and message, with just enough blood-thirsty lines and misogyny to hold the kids over.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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You may not love this album, and I'm not sure I do, but you do have to respect it.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Thankfully we finally have some more new Quik in our lives in the form of his eighth solo album, The Book of David, an album that finds the legendary DJ going back to his roots, and creating some nice music in the process.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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W.A.R. is only his third project in over ten years. If you're going to pursue quality over quantity you better deliver quality, and thankfully W.A.R. is nothing but quality.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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After Rolling Papers Wiz' fan base should expand significantly, as should the number of rap purists angry about his lack of rhyme skills, but complaining about his "rap" skills completely misses the point.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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This album is about keeping Brown relevant and making the musical man child marketable again, and on that level it's a moderate success. He's still got a long way to go before he regains his previous stature.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Whatever, the point is that instead of snare hits and cymbal crashes Barker's real contribution came from behind the boards--he's got a production credit on every one of the album's tracks. By the same token he's often paired with other producers, and when it works, like on the RZA influenced Carry It, it really works. Unfortunately, when it doesn't work, it really doesn't.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Lupe seems to have accepted that Lasers is not the masterpiece he originally set out to make and is prepared to move on. Maybe we should follow his lead.- DJ Booth
- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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