E! Online's Scores
- Music
For 787 reviews, this publication has graded:
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72% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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: | Okonokos [Live] | |
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Lowest review score: | I Get Wet |
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Positive: 643 out of 787
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Mixed: 133 out of 787
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Negative: 11 out of 787
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The band goes a different way now, and it's not necessarily a better one.- E! Online
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The music on the group's debut album... feels as if it was inspired by awkward adolescent feel-up LPs by the likes of Pat Benatar and Cheap Trick.- E! Online
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With Love and Squalor certainly won't change pop music as we know it, but it packs surprisingly huge melodies and shamelessly danceable beats.- E! Online
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Julian Casablancas continues to sing as if roused from a deep sleep, the rhythm section keeps the tunes as puckery tight as the band's trousers and guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. balance melodic strumming with some impressive shredding.- E! Online
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He fails to come up with an album that keeps up the standard set here by a couple of standout tracks such as "Strawberry Wine" and "Nightbirds."- E! Online
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Whether he makes it all work via his musical skills or chameleonic acting ability, we don't know, but it does work.- E! Online
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The most rewarding reworkings (Boards of Canada's "Broken Drum," Octet's "Girl") come from those who avoid novelty and realize that, underneath all the blips and glitches, Beck is just a soul man.- E! Online
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Ultimately, like her manufactured pop rivals Ashlee Simpson and Hilary Duff, Lindsay is a little too superficial to sell us angst.- E! Online
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The lyrics seem clumsy, and some of the melodies feel warmed over, and the Carlos Santana-appearing "Illegal" is a total buzzkill. But it's not all a loss.- E! Online
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The joyful "I Love the '80s"-style disc fans have been yearning for since she took up yoga.- E! Online
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The band turns each song up to 11 and lets its rabid hometown fans provide thousand-strong backing vocals. It'll make you want to yell "Woooh!" too.- E! Online
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The songs don't always match the brouhaha surrounding their arrival, but there's no denying the exquisite craft on display.- E! Online
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It's stripped down (and we're not just talking about the jumpsuits), simple and the songwriter's best work in ages.- E! Online
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Chesney sticks with what he knows best: drinking ("Beer in Mexico"), driving ("Somebody Take Me Home") and raising his glass to everyday heroes ("Who You'd Be Today").- E! Online
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Not only is Depeche Mode virtually indestructible, the pioneering British synth-pop group also keeps getting better.- E! Online
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The pop hooks are there, but we can't shake the feeling that the sentiments come off as phony.- E! Online
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Most the songs feel like they should have come out around the same time Clinton moved into the White House.- E! Online
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There's a bit an identity crisis going on here, but fans of this stuff ought to fall under the Numbers' spell pretty darn fast.- E! Online
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Her voice has grown huskier with age, the songs are barely there, and hip-hop producer Mike Elizondo doesn't have the delicate hand that's required to bring them to life.- E! Online
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Most tracks have a commercial sheen that makes the songs sound like they were custom-made to be played in the background of pivotal scenes on The O.C.- E! Online
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C&C's music factory comes across as a unique, modern perspective of both rock's past and present.- E! Online
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[Gray has] stepped up his own game with richer production, bigger arrangements and a renewed sense of purpose that makes songs like "Alibi" and "Disappearing World" sound like his most epic work yet.- E! Online
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Even though he didn't use Godrich's elegant landscaping to its full advantage, we'll still listen to what this man has to say.- E! Online
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