Spin's Scores
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For 4,254 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 2.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
| Highest review score: | To Pimp A Butterfly | |
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| Lowest review score: | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned |
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Positive: 3,052 out of 4254
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Mixed: 1,147 out of 4254
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Negative: 55 out of 4254
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You've heard these overheated tales of wild girls and outlaw boys many times before. [Mar 2007, p.97]- Spin
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A tepid effort that bogs down their previously rugged and introspective rock with power-ballad vibrato, lurid over-orchestration, and petulantly vague lyrics. [Feb 2007, p.83]- Spin
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Greenspan turns the pathos of 2004's Last Exit into nearly intolerable bathos, with the beats now noticeably dragging. [Oct 2006, p.98]- Spin
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X's overlong albums have always been exhausting, and this time he sounds bored and fatigued. [Sep 2006, p.100]- Spin
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He tries hepcat jazz-piano bop and balladry with pitiful results. [May 2006, p.91]- Spin
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Listening to this disc sorta gives new meaning to the phrase virgin sacrifice. [Oct 2005, p.142]- Spin
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They make each shimmer of postnatal whimsy seem like an eternal gulag of the spotless mind. [Sep 2005, p.109]- Spin
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People from New York trying to sound like people from England trying to imagine what Neil Young would sound like if he were in Coldplay. [Oct 2005, p.137]- Spin
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While Transplants' self-titled debut caught the trio at that moment when the third-beer buzz kicks in... the new record seems to have picked up several pints and bong hits later, when shit starts to get grisly. [Aug 2005, p.96]- Spin
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Doesn't build much on the Buffett ease and placeless island rhythms of Johnson's previous albums, but hey, ambition is for the ambitious. [Apr 2005, p.102]- Spin
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[The Datsuns] now sound unfit to carry the Donnas' jockstraps. [Oct 2004, p.120]- Spin
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These hammerheads still sound like the touring company of Grunge-a-Mania. [Jan 2004, p.100]- Spin
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The music, such as it is, is a river of fat-free, dirt-free, melody-free jazz Olestra. [Feb 2002, p.112]- Spin
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Apparently, this American movie is the story of the predatory woman who comes to your house, whaps the crap out of you, and makes you play the same song over and over again. [2/2001, p.107]- Spin
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Buying the latests CD from a novelty act is like sitting on the same whoopee cushion twice. [Oct 2000, p.180]- Spin
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By the time one gets to the final track, a head-scratching take on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here," the overall effect is a decidedly uncomfortable numbness.- Spin
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But it's not Eve 6's purely commercial aspirations that makes them so horrid...- Spin
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For such a propulsive controversy-magnet, her new album is awfully toothless and indistinct.- Spin
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The Moon and Antarctica does show Modest Mouse willing to change. Too bad it wasn't for the better.... Mistaking subject for style, Modest Mouse has chosen to accentuate on a tendency to drift rather than an ability to write emotionally effective songs.- Spin
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