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For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Songbook [Live]
    His ... /bellow is downgraded to a whimper on these live, solo acoustic tracks. The Audioslave songs take the biggest hit; without amp-busting bluster, they're barely there.[Nov. 25, 2011, p. 71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 29, 2011
    • 78 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Take Care
    What Drake needs is a few more punchlines to brighten up his monochromatic therapy sessions. Surely Canada's excellent healthcare system can underwrite that.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Someone To Watch over Me
    She sounds like a showbiz bet marking time. [11 Nov 2011, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 11, 2011
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Here and Now
    Their ambitions may get the best of them on Here and Now, an album that finds frontman Chad Kroeger volunteering to "kick a hole in the sky."
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Under the Mistletoe
    The Biebs' gentle set of gentile carols on Under the Mistletoe isn't coal-lump bad; it's more like a dorky sweater from Nana with a 20 in the pocket.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Mylo Xyloto
    What's missing is the innovation that made Viva La Vida so dynamic.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Sea of Memories
    The Sea adds exactly zero entries to the totally awesome Bush greatest-hits album that doesn't exist yet. [23 Sep 2011, p.79]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 6, 2011
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Clear as Day
    On Clear as Day, American Idol's latest champ sounds like he's 52, and not just because of the Randy Travis baritone coming from his Opie Taylor mouth.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I'm Back! Family & Friends
    There's promise in three new funk workouts toward the end; they suggest it's time for a whole new thing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Gold Cobra
    Oft-delayed, petulant, and hook-devoid "comeback." [1 Jul 2011, p.74]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Aug 10, 2011
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Gems: The Duets Collection
    The soft-rocker belter hooks up with Seal, Rascal Flatts, and others for covers of sure-thing hits like "Fields of Gold" and :You Are So Beautiful." [24 Jun 2011, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Jun 23, 2011
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Sorry for Party Rocking
    It's topped off by truly terrible rapping, which often turns otherwise groan-inspiring instrumentals into jumbled, maddening filler.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
    You'll be safe from falling stuntmen, but the soundtrack to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Broadway's notorious mega-musical poses a more mundane risk: boredom.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Destroyed
    Groovy but tepid. [20 May 2011, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted May 24, 2011
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love?
    Despite the star power she emits on screen, her vocals have always been less than stellar; on LOVE? she often sounds limited and nasal, with a flatness that can feel downright Rebecca Black-esque at its worst.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
    If [only] these epic songs glowed hotter along the way. [6 May 2011, p.74]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 29, 2011
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Return of Mr. Zone 6
    There aren't many hot tracks here. [1 Apr 2011, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 8, 2011
    • 47 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Screaming Bloody Murder
    Murder ultimately drowns in flavorless thrashing. [1 Apr 2011, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 8, 2011
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Awesome As F**k
    Awesome as F---, a live album, doubles as both a high-octane greatest-hits collection and a not-always-flattering portrait of the band's evolution from bratty Northern California punks to stadium-rock juggernaut.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Some Kind of Trouble
    Some Kind of Trouble comes off as inert and oddly hollow; apart from the album's comparatively lively bookends.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Wonders of the Younger
    The idealism is admirable, but after an album of Bambi's worldview via Beach Boys strings, you'll want to put Higgenson down for a nap.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Farmer's Daughter
    If Farmer's Daughter feels like one of the most genuine Idol-contestant debuts yet, it's also one of the dullest, with Bowersox hitting every note exactly the way you expect her to.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Only 1 Flo, Pt. 1
    Unfortunately, Flo Rida seems weirdly reined-in on the rest of this eight-track mini-album Only One Flo (Part 1),
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Strip Me
    Strip Me, her third studio disc, plays like one long, increasingly desperate pep talk. The only breather? "Unexpected Hero," a lovely late-Beatles-style ballad.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Live It Up
    Lee DeWyze's debut album Live It Up suffers from vague production that strips his Adam Duritz-y growl of all humor, anger, and sexuality.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Soulsville
    Huey and his News tackle vintage tracks from the Stax library on this good-natured but unnecessary covers disc. [5 Nov 2010, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 4, 2010
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cardiology
    Cardiology, the pop-punk band's fifth album, struggles to stay relevant.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Incredible Machine
    When having 15,000 fans wave their cell phones in the air goes from a nifty career aftereffect to the very reason for writing songs, it seems like something is amiss.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Am Not a Human Being
    I Am Not a Human Being's angry title track showcases Wayne's ability to at once spit funny similes and tough talk, but its punk-hop guitar riffs barely even compete with the ones on his much-derided 2010 rock album, Rebirth.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    1,000 Years
    Corin Tucker's voice--always so uniquely emotive in the punkier contexts of S-K--looms uncomfortably over songs that sound scrapbooked from other '90s-centric acts (Liz Phair, Pavement) but never take on a form of their own.
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