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For 2,071 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1
Lowest review score: 0 Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,594 out of 2071
  2. Mixed: 442 out of 2071
  3. Negative: 35 out of 2071
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Struggle
    Between the hooks, he's as earnest as ever, but now he's dressed to party.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Idiot
    Green Day trumps any pretension with melody and sheer fervor.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sweat
    These are easily Nelly's best albums so far.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In The World Of Him
    The music surrounds the sustained emotion of her voice with a pensive, hallucinatory overlay.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suit
    In his world, being grown and sexy doesn't mean being complacent - it means being curious, maybe even brave.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Funeral
    One of the year's best indie-rock albums. [3 Oct 2004]
    • The New York Times
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wet From Birth
    The Faint is never less than snappy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What I Do
    He often starts with a familiar scenario or sentiment, then finds a way to wriggle free of predictability without giving up on the initial idea.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Getting Away With Murder
    The new songs are thrashing hard rock that always pays attention to melody.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Medulla
    While the album might seem to be a conceptual stunt, it finds gorgeous and startling new ways to extend Bjork's longtime mission: merging the earthy and the ethereal. [29 Aug 2004]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Straight Outta Ca$hville
    This album isn't revelatory, but it is convincing, and although Young Buck's subject matter never surprises, the tracks sometimes do. [30 Aug 2004]
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Happy People / U Saved Me
    There's something rather unambitious about this set.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Welcome Back
    A surprisingly tepid collection that might have benefited from a bit more preaching, or at least a bit more passion. [30 Aug 2004]
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Revolution Starts Now
    Merges twang, orneriness and compassion. [6 Sep 2004]
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Live Like You Were Dying
    McGraw uses references to death and suffering to camouflage rather ordinary songs, and rather ordinary singing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More Adventurous
    Each song on "More Adventurous" sounds rich and well plotted. [16 Aug 2004]
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All City
    It can be rough going, especially when the three rappers fall back on stilted clichés. [30 Aug 2004]
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Homesongs
    He uses a roomful of instruments and toys to turn the album into a homemade pop symphony.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    One Plus One Is One
    Typically hit or miss.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Autobiography
    The album is a thoroughly calculated package, aiming for the same audience that embraces Avril Lavigne and Pink. [26 Jul 2004]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blueberry Boat
    It's deeply ambitious, but to listen to it you'd think making music like this was as easy for them as falling off a log. [18 Jul 2004]
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Back To Basics
    Like many dancehall reggae albums, this one often cries out to be sampled more than listened to. [19 Jul 2004]
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stone Love
    Stone Love... spreads it thick with bells, harps, string sections and expert evocations of grooviness. These affectations are starting to swallow up her talent.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    To The 5 Boroughs
    The tracks crackle and swing with a wit that the lyrics rarely match.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Uh Huh Her
    It is a short disc (41 minutes), and not an entirely satisfying one: instead of stories and characters, we get a series of gestures, a few false starts, pockets full of poses. This is an album of shards, then. But they're sharp. [7 June 2004]
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Com
    The embarrassingly specific lyrics about her personal life… give the album the feel of a nocturnal diary with the immediacy of a Web log.[16 May 2004]
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Under My Skin
    There's little subtlety on "Under My Skin," and... absolutely no fear of clichés. But on the emotionally fraught battleground that is high-school romance, perhaps those would be frills. [16 May 2004]
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Baptism
    There are some sturdy tunes and hooks, but not much more: the songwriting is often bland, the singing generally charmless.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    So-Called Chaos
    The music rings proudly, but the narcissism is suffocating.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Faded Seaside Glamour
    You can't tell a word Greg Gilbert is saying... and you won't care; his soaring falsetto is that beautiful.
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