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For 823 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 An End Has A Start
Lowest review score: 0 D12 World
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 823
  2. Mixed: 198 out of 823
  3. Negative: 56 out of 823
823 music reviews
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Rudebox
    His new lyrical equation seems to be rip off someone else's words, add some street slang that would have been out of date five years ago, mention some brand names, say something offensive and then shoe horn it all together.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Escapology
    An unholy brew of overreaching ambition and soul-destroying complacency.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
    This ain’t no classic.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    You can feel how dreadful this record is from the very first bar.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Keys To The World
    Too much is sodden with his overbearing ego.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pressure Chief
    'Pressure Chief' sees the California quartet merge their trademark post modern kitsch with something vaguely approaching proper singing and the results are, by and large, pretty favourable.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Tales Don't Tell Themselves
    As concept albums go, this one wears very thin very quickly.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Others
    An eclectic ragbag of influences coerced into great exciting guitar pop.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Invincible
    It does at least manage to include several of the things we hold dearest about Michael Jackson the singer, and it also steers clear of anything as laugh-out-loud as 'Earth Song'.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brett Anderson
    Dubious lyrics notwithstanding, this is exactly the kind of album that a formerly drug-addled, ludicrously randy, city-dazzled English suburban boy ought to be making when he reaches the onset of middle age.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Snare
    But shorn of the spoken word indulgences and look-what-I've-just-found electronica it's a leaner, hungrier beast, a more focussed, more alluring, more dangerous, but still tender trap.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tical 0: The Prequel
    A weak Meth album produced poorly and without imagination in the main, by an assortment of losers, with each track featuring a guest emcee.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Time Changes Everything
    If this was the work of a new artist it's debatable whether it would even have seen the light of day, and it's certainly unlikely we'd've felt the need to even comment on it.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lions
    'Lions' is a mediocre album.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Winning Days
    As unremarkable and average a comeback as humanly possible.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Brassbound
    This bears the same relationship to pop music that wallpaper paste does to food.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Gemstones
    There's a confidence and a swagger that wasn't there before, Green uncapping the band who can convert his quirky sketches into clever, swinging masterpieces.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stealing Of A Nation
    Their zeal is such that, for the most part, we can overlook their failure to be flawless.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Types Of Wood
    An album of repetitive, insipid riffs: eleven tracks flakier than chippings and more irritating to your facial passages than toxic MDF sawdust.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Other People's Songs
    Startling for all the wrong reasons.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    It's a rather sad indictment that by the end of the album you almost forget its The Stooges gainfully toiling away.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Results May Vary
    This is so so crap.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Hefty Fine
    There are already too many Bloodhound Gang albums in the world. This one should be recalled and recycled. Into something that's not a Bloodhound Gang album, obviously.
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