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For 787 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Okonokos [Live]
Lowest review score: 0 I Get Wet
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 643 out of 787
  2. Mixed: 133 out of 787
  3. Negative: 11 out of 787
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Down With Wilco
    Neither as experimental as Yankee Hotel Foxtrot nor as accessible as McCaughey's various forays, nothing on the album really makes an impression other than a couple of throwaway lyrics and the abrupt shift between McCaughey's pinched vocal styling and Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy's coarse whisper.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Art Of Losing
    Once again, it's a batch of arena-ready, metal-friendly, upbeat punk rock that often sounds like Sum 41 doing its best Bay City Rollers impression.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    She Has No Strings Apollo
    A darkly shimmering, intensely brooding and exquisitely melancholy trip.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Feast of Wire
    Conjures up an exotic, enchanting world populated with slide guitars, maracas, accordions, brass bands and late-night country crooning.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Datsuns
    Retro rawk doesn't come much ballsier than this--or get much better.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    You Are Free
    Melodically exquisite, this is a triumph of minimalism.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Nocturama
    Often funeral-march slow, but there are also flashes of passionate energy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
    Unless you are the president of the NRA or addicted to Cops-type tales, 50 Cent's debut is strictly small change.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Boomslang
    The lyrics aren't "How Soon Is Now?"-type genius, but they go down easily enough.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Mary Star of the Sea
    Even the geeky ballads will put a smile on your face and a Bic lighter in your hand.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Airs Above Your Station
    All droning guitars, snail-paced rhythms and bombastic arrangements, songs like "Schedule for Using Pillows & Beanbags" and "Your Lights Are (Out or) Burning Badly" will either raise the hairs on the back of your neck or put you to straight to sleep.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Holopaw
    A lesson in subtlety, 10 songs of abstract musical impressions that foil today's connect-the-dots pop.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hate
    A soaring, orchestral pop masterpiece.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    One Bedroom
    Singer Sam Prekop sounds as delightfully laid-back as ever and John McEntire's production remains inventive, however, the combined effect is more limp than limber.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Lovebox
    Lovebox brings together [their] disparate elements in a convenient package, highlighting the knob-twiddlers' many talents.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Illumination
    Interesting variations on classic pop music, delivered with fire and wisdom.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Just Whitney
    She doesn't quite act her age on teen beat-driven single "Whatchulookinat," but she makes up for it with a series of R&B standards and diva-worthy ballads that hit most of the right notes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss
    Snoop sounds as cool as ever with his velvety voice and nodding head keeping the laid-back party going.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Phrenology
    With Phrenology, the cool Philly troupe remain head and shoulders above the rest by sticking to their well-defined course of smoky live beats, serious lyrics, stunning guests... and not one ounce of production from the Neptunes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Does This Look Infected?
    This disc has a clutch of songs that mix chord-y abandon with raging rock riffs--and a heck of a lot of good times.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Steal This Album
    As leftovers go, this Album is refreshingly tasty.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Brainwashed
    The songs don't exactly have the stripped-down demo feel Harrison intended--but mercifully aren't as over-glossed as those on his last solo album, 1987's Cloud Nine.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Whip It On
    With dashes of Nick Cave darkness, surf-guitar twang, ugly '60s pop and Velvet Underground-y noise, the Raveonettes offer more variations on the dense tuned-down sound that's overtaking America.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Last Temptation
    The tough stuff works. But Temptation is really tempting when Rule drops all pretense of authenticity and lets the good vibes flow on the bouncy "Mesmerize," silky sex-jam "Murder Me" and the horn-infused title track.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Audioslave
    While a bit of this debut sounds like Cornell doing his best over Rage-ified staccato riffs, these guys are at the top of their game when they reverse the formula and make way for Cornell's masterful wail and poetic imagery.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Riot Act
    The frequently acoustic guitars and the frontman's mumbled ramblings on death, politics and love make this a fairly quiet, and deep, Riot.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Under Construction
    Even with all the drama, Construction is Elliott's sturdiest creation yet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    3D
    features several career-defining turns by superstar producers such as the Neptunes ("In My Arms Tonight"), Babyface ("Hands Up"), Missy Elliott and Timbaland ("Dirty"), with all the group's playfulness and silky-smooth funk intact.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    American IV: The Man Comes Around
    Often thrilling, sometimes just interesting.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Justified
    Michael Jackson's probably thinking, "Man, this is the album I should've made last year!"
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