E! Online's Scores
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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 |
Score distribution:
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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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Ed Kowalczyk and crew burden their sound with angry guitars, pseudoraps and needless swearing torn straight outta the Fred Durst book of lyric writing.- E! Online
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But by not lyrically responding to the originals--like Liz Phair did for Exile in Guyville, for instance--Tori stops short of high concept and more than once slips from being revolutionary to simply pretentious.- E! Online
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Casual fans of modern rock may drown here (and probably won't get it), but admirers of like-minded artists such as the Flaming Lips and Built to Spill will certainly get Rev-ved up.- E! Online
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This hand-clapping, disco-ball-driven journey sounds like all the other stuff in [Jay Kay's] catalog.- E! Online
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The Bed-Stuy boy musters up enough of his own charisma, charm and wit to build another solid release.- E! Online
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She throws so much sparkle, shine and, yes, glitter at us that even tracks about her friend's suicide and her recent breakup are as glossy as her latest publicity shot.- E! Online
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Where the debut sometimes resembled a psycho-ward jam session, System serve up some surprising melodies on "Chop Suey!" "Forest" and the haunting "Aerials."- E! Online
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Unlike previous albums, The Altogether doesn't really take the listener on some mind-altering trip. It simply throws together some half-baked novelties, some wasted and underwhelming guest appearances and a bunch of rhythmic ideas that would have sounded infinitely better a decade ago.- E! Online
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Anchored in the surreal goofball art rock, club beats and bubblegum punk that made anomaly hits like 1996's "Pepper" so cool, frontman Gibby Haines and gang sugarcoat their standardized tales of decay and hallucinogens but keep some delicious bitterness intact.- E! Online
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Is a welcoming entrance for new fans as much as it is another fine chapter for the diehards.- E! Online
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Injecting the album with plenty of soul, gospel and throwbacks to that old-school Motown sound, producers like the Neptunes, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and guests like Eve help round out what's possibly the best R&B album this year.- E! Online
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Björk's latest is as delightfully eccentric as her choice in outfits, blending scratchy electronic programming with tinkling music boxes and squeezing her formidable voice into ancient-sounding harmonies or futuristic whispers.- E! Online
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After too many calls for the end of humanity and playing the Satan card a few times, all the yelling becomes little more than a humorless joke.- E! Online
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The odd combination of Coomes' rinky-dink keyboards and Weiss' booming beat is scrappy, stripped-down and still charmingly unlike anything else out there.- E! Online
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Krauss is blessed with one of the most coolly beautiful voices on record, and she's often better than her material, which is once again the case here.- E! Online
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Maxwell's latest finds the steady and seductive soul-provider drawing more from the class of Marvin Gaye than the trash of R. Kelly--with a touch of spirituality thrown in.- E! Online
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But even a busload of heavyweight producers and guests (P. Diddy, Jermaine Dupri, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the Neptunes and more) can't help this Babyface prodigy from playing it too same-y here.- E! Online
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It's still the group's own thumping concoctions--"Ready for Action" and "Blowout," for instance--that ring the loudest.- E! Online
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A less produced, totally honest and much more sparse collection than what fans were dancing to with Omnipop.- E! Online
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'N Sync reminds us why boy bands were put on this earth in the first place: to have a good time.- E! Online
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It's mostly funny, but it also gets kind of same-y as these average Joes embrace their marching-band backgrounds and revel in self-deprecating humor.- E! Online
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His backing band's heavy-metal veering leans toward the generic. Only the Igster's sometimes fierce (but fading) yowl adds enough soul--and insanity--to make them at least momentarily credible.- E! Online
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Oddly enough, he not only makes it work, he makes it a whopping success.- E! Online
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It delivers the ultimate knockout--sticky R&B grooves and a heavenly falsetto that point to greats like Marvin Gaye ("Soul Sista") and Stevie Wonder ("Queen Sanity").- E! Online
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Though not as immediate as some of her past mainstream work, Aaliyah's latest has the smoky temptress slowly working her way through R&B, hip-hop and even slightly techno beats...- E! Online
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The overall psychedelic mood works wonders for any self-respecting fan of the Beach Boys and David Bowie.- E! Online
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Armed with a summer anthem and all ("Lucy Doesn't Love You"), it shouldn't be long before Ivy's popularity grows.- E! Online
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With their intensely layered harmonies, pounding rhythms and Martsch's own nasal drawl, songs like "Alarmed" and "You Are" are sublimely hummable pop gems.- E! Online
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