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Q (6/00, p.70) - Ranked #49 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...A good UK soul record....Melding reggae, hip hop and soul, CLUB CLASSICS unveiled that since-oft-imitated laid-back bassline, strewn with sweeping strings, flutes, and melodic vocals..."Muzik (6/99, p.85) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...The singles...remain their lasting testament - a statement of British black musical intent that is now bearing fruit everywhere....Club classics indeed."12.66389
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Q (8/02, p.134) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Hooray for fey-free folk..."Magnet (10/02, p.110) - "...It's a cultural tangle, to be sure, and one Yorkston shows he's capable of pulling off..."Mojo (Publisher) (7/02, p.96) - "...A lovely lilting album..."NME (Magazine) (6/1/02, p.38) - 8 out of 10 - "...James Yorkston is a folk musician from Scotland. Realistically this suggests that the only way he'd make it into the pages of NME was if he smacked one of the Strokes over the head with a banjo. But his debut album, sweetly but firmly demolishes your preconceptions..."Uncut (magazine) (p.99) - "Yorkston's finest moments come when he indulges his sentimental side: '6:30 Is Just Way Too Early' is a thing of beauty; a whisky dream of romantic regret."9.854063
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Rolling Stone (3/2/00, p.99) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...metal with a capital 'm', brutally intense and totally...scary....Amid the riffage...there are strands of melody....But when Corey Taylor roars into the microphone...Slipknot really get their ya-yas out..."Q (7/01, p.90) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time" - "...Pure, bug-eyed heaviness....Giddily meshing the crunch of thrash metal with samples and turntables....a terrifying racket..."Alternative Press (12/99, p.116) - 4 out of 5 - "...achieves crushing lows as well as piercing highs - they've taken shaky concepts, merged them and amended them....through inventive sampling, creative guitar work and an absolute percussive overload..."CMJ (1/10/00, p.4) - Ranked #12 in CMJ's "Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999] - "...brutally relentless....bruising, down-tuned pummeling....the debut metal album of the year."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.51) - "Raw and wholly uncompromising, each track delivered a powerful blow to the senses..."9.852008
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Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.73) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."Rolling Stone (8/25/94, p.88) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Nas' no-nonsense urban tales pair ILL's every beautiful moment with its harsh antithesis..."Spin (8/94, p.84) - Highly Recommended - "...ILLMATIC pays serious mind to uncertain sources, to abstract anxiety, spiritual and otherwise....These are powerfully stressed-out images, but Nas hints that he's after something more personally revealing..."Q (5/97, p.142) - "...the musical backdrops are razor sharp; hard bears but with melodic hooks and loops, atmospheric background piano, strings or muted trumpet, and samples...A potent treat."Vibe (6/02, p.108) - Ranked #4 in Vibe's "Top 10 rap albums" - "...As perfect as 39 hip hop minutes get..."The Source (4/94, p.73) - 5 Mics - Classic - "...I must maintain that this is one of the best hip-hop albums I have ever heard...No cliched metaphors, no gimmicks...Never too abstract, never superficial. Even the skit-intros are meaningful..."The Source (4/94, p.73) - 5 Stars - Classic - "...I must maintain that this is one of the best hip-hop albums I have ever heard...No cliched metaphors, no gimmicks...Never too abstract, never superficial. Even the skit-intros are meaningful..."Musician (8/94, p.95) - "...ILLMATIC could be one of the finest conventional hip-hop albums ever made...Nas is a dark, compelling lyricist who enunciates cleanly and quickly, leaving the listener able to hear everything he says, but racing to follow the meaning..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.103) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Concise, focused and lyrically dazzling, ILLMATIC remains one of hip hop's must-buys..."NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.23) - Ranked #33 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'NME (Magazine) (7/9/94, p.44) - 9 - Excellent Plus - "...Nas' upbringing oozes from every pore of the music. This is the true voice of where Nas comes from, set to 40 minutes of rhythmic perfection. A stunner..."9.842725
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Entertainment Weekly (12/22/95, p.68) - "...successfully...combines textured vocals, aggressive guitar, and solid songwriting..." - Rating: B+Vibe (3/96, p.133) - "...while the music is a keen fusion of rock, soul, and bits of rap, JESUS FREAK'S themes are as timeless as the faith DC Talk reshape for a generation bombarded by grunge and gangsta grooves..."9.84158
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Rolling Stone (3/5/98, p.68) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...The gruff-voiced Banton blazes a wider--and far more colorful--social and stylistic path on INNA HEIGHTS....goes a long way toward further establishing Banton as a ghetto messenger of peace and social justice..."Blender (Magazine) (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e doesn't so much vocalize as emote, radiating intensity with every syllable."9.841435
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Rolling Stone (9/28/00, pp.53-4) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Follows the same trajectory of their 1st album [going from] tranquil emotional tenderness into fuzzed-out, white-knuckle anger....with banging beats..."Alternative Press (5/00, pp.84-5) - 4 out of 5 - "...A resuscitating jolt of unwholesome tweaked soundage....This satisfying slab is just anthem after anthem of maximum decibels that -miraculously - never gets samey..."CMJ (1/08/01, p.26) - Included in CMJ's "Best Loud Rock Albums" of 2000.CMJ (3/27/00, p.28) - "...catchy, addictive, and ultimately forward-thinking...leaving a permanent impression..."Melody Maker (7/4/00, p.65) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Rather entertaining in a turn-off-brain cheap-thrills kinda way....Absolute unreasoning misanthropy of a frankly adolescent nature."9.302848
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Kerrang (Magazine) (p.53) - "Packed with infectious melodies and sing-along anthems..."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.51) - "[Y]ou can hear them finding their spark, mixing huge choruses with irrepressibly upbeat, spiky pop-punk riffs to irresistible effect."8.612357
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Rolling Stone (1/03/02, p.119) - Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001".Rolling Stone (1/18/01, pp.56-7) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A collection of folk, bluegrass, gospel and hobo country so true to the music's down-home, egalitarian roots that it's hard to distinguish the old tracks from the new and the folk heroes from screen actors..."Rolling Stone (1/03/02, p.119) - Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001".Rolling Stone (1/18/01, pp.56-7) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A collection of folk, bluegrass, gospel and hobo country so true to the music's down-home, egalitarian roots that it's hard to distinguish the old tracks from the new and the folk heroes from screen actors..."Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.38) - Ranked #56 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An unlikely hillbilly smash making 1930s-style string-band music the 1st trend of the 21st-century..."Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.38) - Ranked #56 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An unlikely hillbilly smash making 1930s-style string-band music the 1st trend of the 21st-century..."Q (12/00, p.139) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too..."Q (12/00, p.139) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too..."No Depression (1-2/01, p.90) - "...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album..."No Depression (1-2/01, p.90) - "...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album..."Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.68) - Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks".Mojo (Publisher) (1/02, p.70) - Ranked #3 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001".Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.68) - Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks".Mojo (Publisher) (1/02, p.70) - Ranked #3 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001".Uncut (magazine) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some superb country-blues fiddling from John Hartford and a couple of breezy, close-harmony stunners from the Cox Family."7.402187
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Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.112) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.104) - Ranked #4 in Rolling Stone's list of 2002's "10 Best Debuts"Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The loudest and funniest metal you've heard in ages....tossing in Axl, Slash, Queen, Aldo Nova, early Falco, late Gino Vanelli and the Village People into his own private meat grinder..."Entertainment Weekly (3/22/02, pp.107-8) - "...An unapologetic barrage of WWF-ready headbangers filtered through hedonistic hair metal...music that marks the advent of 2nd-generation '80s power metal..." - Rating: B+Q (12/01, p.128) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Bracing, cynical, state-of-the-art fun in the spirit of Little Richard, Van Halen and The Damned..."Alternative Press (4/02, p.65) - 8 out of 10 - "...[Andrew W.K.] smashes up pop melodies, metal riffs and industrial beats with a hammer, creating something that teeters on parody yet heralds an enthusiastic return to the days when hair metal knew how to get the crowds loaded..."CMJ (4/1/2002, p.5) - "...I GET WET is a slick collection of party anthems built on towering power chords, big drums, tasty new-wave synth licks and admonitions to 'Party 'Til You Puke'....it's joyful, liberating, vital..."Mojo (Publisher) (12/01, p.112) - "...Thrilling brutality..."NME (Magazine) (12/29/01, p.59) - Ranked #9 in NME's "Albums Of The Year 2001"NME (Magazine) (11/3/01, p.32) - 8 out of 10 - "...An amazing experience...it's for people who like the smell of hot crack in the morning....It's entirely one-dimensional, but - hey, what a dimension...His sound is furious, muscular and relentless..."7.390267
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Q (7/01, p.87) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time".Q (10/01, p.94) - Ranked #10 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"Q (5/97, p.139) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...the tone of the album is by turns bleak, angry and resigned, marked by [Richey] Edwards's confessional Sylvia Plath-isms...Moving, but not easy, listening."Uncut (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Richey dominates lyrically, combining insectoid self-loathing and snarling self-respect with rare intellectual intensity."Mojo (Publisher) (p.57) - Ranked #81 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[L]o-fi recording ethics, lyrics of terrifying self-evisceration, driven by savage skeletal meta-punk."Mojo (Publisher) (2/02, p.84) - "...Their masterpiece..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "With the passing of time, THE HOLY BIBLE makes even more sense..."7.383252
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Kerrang (Magazine) (p.53) - "Packed with infectious melodies and sing-along anthems..."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.51) - "[Y]ou can hear them finding their spark, mixing huge choruses with irrepressibly upbeat, spiky pop-punk riffs to irresistible effect."7.382426
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Spin (9/98, pp.191-192) - 8 out of 10 - "...Gomez...has...steeped itself in retro-Americana: the Band, Little Feat, the Grateful Dead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Captain Beefheart....Ultimately, BRING IT ON works, because, to hell with quote marks, it's a damn beautiful record."Entertainment Weekly (9/11/98, p.132) - "...While their retro pastiche of swampy guitar, Vedderesque vocals, and goofy lyrics is initally bewildering, it slowly grows into sonic shapes that are as dense and oddly beautiful as wild kudzu." - Rating: B+Q (12/99, p.100) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."Mojo (Publisher) (p.119) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Adding '90s electronica swirls and echoes, they ended up in a rackety groove combining good times and primal terror, sweetness and severe damage."NME (Magazine) (3/23/02, p.36) - 9 out of 10 - "...To say that Gomez are fake is to say the same about the fledgling Stones banging around the Richmond Tavern high on Bo Diddley. It's fantasy, man. Chill out..."7.382426
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"...Lopez performs with sizzling stage presence..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...Pleasant to watch....The movie's concert sequences have a fluency and bounce that match the music..."New York Times "...Played with verve, heart, and a great deal of grace by [Lopez]..."Entertainment Weekly "...SELENA makes full use of Lopez's charisma..."Los Angeles Times "...SELENA succeeds, through Lopez's performance, in evoking the magic of a sweet and talented young woman..."Chicago Sun-Times7.379754
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"...The year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy....Burton is a true movie visionary with uncommon insights into hearts in torment..." Rolling Stone "...Eye-catching, ingenious..." Sight and Sound "...The whole film has a tender underlining and a marvelous fun-house look and pace....Gentleness is a nice quality to have back in movies. Along with some fairy-tale pain, longing and hilarity, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS has it..." Los Angeles Times "...A fairytale with an edge....Just as affecting a decade on..." Total Film "Depp's oddball hero transforms cute, quirky sentimentality into emotional palatability..." Total Film "[T]he best part of Tim Burton's sweet-tempered fantasy is that the hero is played by the ever-surprising Johnny Depp..."Wall Street Journal6.457285
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"...A feather-light romantic comedy....[Hanks and Ryan] are terrifically attractive..." New York Times "...The hippest, frankest and funniest date movie around..." Rolling Stone "...Charming SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE manages to be dateless - as in timeless - as it pays homage to date movies of yore..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...[The film] delivers ample warmth and some explosively funny moments....There are some extremely amusing explorations of dating mores..." Variety "...The actors are well-suited to this material....Meg Ryan, who is one of the most likable actresses around and has a certain ineffable Doris Day innocence, is able to convince us of the magical quality of her sudden love..." Chicago Sun-Times6.457285
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"...Genuinely smart and funny..." Sight and Sound "...SLACKER without the slackness, intentionally commercial and breezily entertaining....A spectacular cast..." New York Times "...Tenderly funny..." -- Rating: A Entertainment Weekly "...A romantic comedy that is cheerful, edgy and alive..." Los Angeles Times "REALITY BITES is a touchstone for anyone just out of college and stuck with more ideals than job prospects..." Rolling Stone6.457285
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Dirty Linen (p.87) - "[With] fine ensemble playing....Certainly worth re-exploring."6.457285
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