Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 9 reviews, going back to 2005, each next to the album’s Breakdown.

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Writes for

  • NME 2005–2007 · 9 reviews

What they review

  • Indie & Alternative 44%
  • Rock 44%
  • Metal & Punk 11%

More numbers (how close they land to the other critics, release-week calls) appear once we track 15 of their reviews.

Their favorites

  1. ColdplayX&Y 90 NME
  2. Tom WaitsAlice 80 NME
  3. The DamnedDamned Damned Damned 80 NME
  4. StereophonicsPull the Pin 70 NME
  5. Patti SmithTwelve 70 NME

Artists they keep coming back to

Their scores for each artist, in release order.

Every review

Outlet
StereophonicsPull the PinNME via Wikipedia70 7/10492007
Patti SmithTwelve“Patti Smith is musical Marmite. To devotees, she is the gimlet-eyed North Star for every woman in rock, blazing a radical, intellectual trail for everyone from Courtney to Beth Ditto.…”NME via Wikipedia70 7/10622007
JetShine OnNME via Wikipedia70 7/10552006
SupergrassLife on Other PlanetsNME via Wikipedia70 7/10682005
Tom WaitsAliceNME via Wikipedia80 8/1084
Tom WaitsBlood MoneyNME via Wikipedia70 7/1082
The DamnedDamned Damned DamnedNME via Wikipedia80 8/1085
Bruce SpringsteenThe Rising“Aside from ‘Ghost Of Tom Joad’, the last ten years haven’t been Springsteen‘s best. In an attempt to recall his salad days, when his earthy, working man protest songs had…”NME via Wikipedia70 7/1083
ColdplayX&YNME via Wikipedia90 9/1074

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