- Artist
- Elton John
- Album
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Early reviews. Based on 3 critics so far. The Breakdown will settle as more outlets weigh in.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Slant | 4.5/5 | 90 | “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is such an epic, varied display of emotional depth and soul that it should be classified as some sort of operetta.” |
| Record Collector | 4/5 | 80 | “An unassailable high watermark in Elton’s lengthy career, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is a concept album of sorts. Packed with motifs and allusions to” |
| PopMatters | 5/10 | 50 | “I can recall Sliders more fondly now probably because I hadn't immersed myself in the early '90s TV show's mythology as I did X-Files or (as I did later that” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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