Billboard.com's Scores
- Music
For 825 reviews, this publication has graded:
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81% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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16% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | The Complete Matrix Tapes [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Jackie |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 750 out of 825
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Mixed: 75 out of 825
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Negative: 0 out of 825
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Finally, a deluxe version of their 1971 masterpiece Sticky Fingers that includes a bounty of concurrent outtakes and live material, along with a companion DVD/CD release of a live-for-TV performance.... [Sticky Fingers itself] is indisputably one of the greatest albums of 1970s, if not the entire the rock era. The end.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 25, 2015
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At the very least, listening to The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 should send you scurrying back to the official versions of those three classic Bob Dylan albums. It’s his story, and it’s history, reconsidered one more time.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 6, 2015
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To Pimp a Butterfly defies easy listening, but it's deeply rewarding.- Billboard.com
- Posted Mar 16, 2015
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Spanning the years 1968-75, this exquisitely designed four-disc boxed set gathers a treasure trove of rare gems.- Billboard.com
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The SMiLE Sessions captures Wilson, session musicians and the Beach Boys in moments that are chaotic, loopy and remarkably in synch. It's a consistently brilliant album.- Billboard.com
- Posted Oct 28, 2011
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Needless to say, West has proved once again that he is most on point in the face of adversity.- Billboard.com
- Posted Dec 7, 2010
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This Reading appearance-released for the first time on the CD/DVD package "Live at Reading"-captured the trio's skill at turning simple power chords into some of the most memorable rock anthems of the '90s.- Billboard.com
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Perhaps that's a story for another set, however, and newcomers and fans alike will find this one remarkably satisfying- Billboard.com
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No matter what Ocean's mood is on the album, the songs sound fantastic.... it's one of the best albums of the year.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 18, 2012
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Bowie is back, and thanks to better technology, these special editions of "Raw Power" sound right on the money. But the story here is the extras.- Billboard.com
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Manipulating her voice as much as she does her sound, Monáe widens the cast of characters and pushes along the self-explorative narrative. The ArchAndroid could be the stuff of stage or screen, 3-D without the annoying glasses.- Billboard.com
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Ork was a scoundrel and eventually a jailbird, but no one chronicled the undercard at CBGB better.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 11, 2015
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Big Boi delivers an inventive, high-spirited set full of synth-funk signifiers, talk-box flair and snares.- Billboard.com
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The music is spacious, paranoid and sultry; the lyrics are suggestive and knotted.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2015
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The result is an album that was absolutely worth the seven-year wait, not to mention the mountain of hype atop which Apple has sat since her big comeback at SXSW in March.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 19, 2012
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Ali and Toumani is spontaneous and deeply spiritual, depicting two outstanding musicians who are governed by nothing but their love for their nation.- Billboard.com
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Sale el Sol manages to bridge the divide between the old and new Shakira with a spark that keeps you listening to the very end.- Billboard.com
- Posted Oct 25, 2010
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The casual nature of the sessions-Dylan coughs during "Blowin' in the Wind" and stops "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" to correct a lyric, for instance-only enriches the experience.- Billboard.com
- Posted Dec 20, 2010
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The box's liner notes are a bit scant, but it's full of treats even for aficionados.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2015
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Art Angels is a marvel of meticulous, even obsessive home-studio recording, uncompromised by bandmates or collaborators.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 9, 2015
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What marks "No Devolucion" as an improvement over 2006's "A City by the Light Divided" and 2009's "Common Existence" is that frontman Geoff Rickly and his bandmates have finally written a batch of songs worthy of those complicated arrangements.- Billboard.com
- Posted Apr 19, 2011
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The diversity and focus has paid off, as Cadillactica is K.R.I.T.'s best and most cohesive work to date.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 10, 2014
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Blackstar is its own strange, perverse thing, the latest move in a boundlessly unpredictable career.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jan 7, 2016
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The achingly good Something More Than Free, captures the mix of excitement and fear that comes when the sun rises on a new day.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 24, 2015
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It's an album that seemingly could have come out in 1996 just as easily as today. Even the song titles feel familiar: "Only Tomorrow," "Is This and Yes," "Nothing Is." Having said that, it's lovely.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 6, 2013
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- Posted Mar 11, 2014
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- Posted Jun 24, 2015
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- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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If there's a funnier, stranger and more touchingly bizarre album released this year, it will be a very good year indeed.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 9, 2015
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Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have made an analog album that's less of a "throwback" and more of a salute to the idols that would now do anything to hop on the duo's full-length.- Billboard.com
- Posted May 14, 2013
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