Midnight Memories

One Direction - Midnight Memories
Critic Score
Based on 15 reviews
2013 Ratings: #1029 / 1115
User Score
Based on 349 ratings
2013 Rank: #504
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CRITIC REVIEWS

85
Billboard
The band certainly improved its balladry this time around, though they chose to go out doing what they do best.
80
AllMusic

Midnight Memories ends up as another satisfying album that does everything a One D album should do and then some.

80
The Telegraph

One Direction's new album, Midnight Memories, is cheeky, swaggeringly confident pop rock from the boys who know they're onto a winner.

67
A.V. Club
There’s enough personality, charm, and dramatic solos to satisfy fans, and enough incremental moves toward artistic credibility to at least give the band a chance at an enduring career.
67
Entertainment Weekly

Midnight Memories, which peaks with the pop-rock winners ”Best Song Ever” and ”Diana,” will sell. And yet the fans, assertive as they are online, won’t see their lives reflected in it — beyond picturing themselves in the embraces teased throughout.

60
SPIN

As long as Midnight Memories offers chorus after chorus of Gary Glitter-style fodderstompf, it sounds like the best boy-band album since No Strings Attached.

60
Slant Magazine
One Direction’s third album is their ’roidy bid to graduate from boy-bandom.
60
The Observer
A lack of democracy and asset-sharing has sunk many a band, never mind a boy band. This album does the job, in more ways than one.
60
The Sydney Morning Herald

Midnight Memories uses guitars for texture and punctuation, much as 2012's Take Me Home nodded to club music, and it makes for an eclectic, confident album that doesn't skimp on the choruses.

60
The Arts Desk

Midnight Memories is a passable, if slightly sanitised, stab at the kind of territory that bands like Fountains of Wayne occupied some years back.

60
Evening Standard
After three albums, it’s reasonably safe to declare that the global phenomenon that is One Direction have finally shed their X Factor/boy-band baggage.
50
Rolling Stone
Like The Supreme Court, One Direction want you to believe that corporations are people, too.
40
Time Out London
One Direction haven’t gone totally off-piste, it’s just that they’re heading that tiny bit closer to adulthood – and that’s no fun at all.
40
The Independent
The boy band's third album is a fumbling transition from pop to rock.
20
NOW Magazine
On their third album, One Direction’s gone from pop-pop to pop-rock. But they didn’t get there on their own. There’s borrowing in pop music and there’s blatant, unashamed ripping off. Here, 1-D are too close to the latter from the get-go.
aristocat
85

Best Song Ever - 100
Story of My Life - 100
Diana - 100
Midnight Memories - 100
You & I - 100
Don't Forget Where You Belong - 100
Strong - 100
Happily - 100
Right Now - 80
Little Black Dress - 70
Through the Dark - 90
Something Great - 80
Little White Lies - 80
Better Than Words - 70
Why Don't We Go There - 60
Does He Know? - 70
Alive - 70
Half a Heart - 70

Tr3yway
64

One Direction Went the Other Direction Part 1.3

They have a song called Best Song Ever. It better be the best song ever.

1. Best Song Ever- Great (I feel scammed. This is not the best song ever. It's the 2nd best song on the album! I WANT MY 3 MINUTES BACK)
2. Story Of My Life- Great (One of their best singles)
3. Diana- Good (Diana would leave =D)
4. Midnight Memories- Good (It's aight)
5. You & I- Good (Not bad)
6. Don't Forget Where You Belong- Great (I'll give them this one)
7. ... read more

LukasLima
76

* Best Song Ever (10/10)
* Story Of My Life (9/10)
* Diana (7/10)
* Midnight Memories (10/10)
* You and I (8.5/10)
* Don't Forget Where You Belong (6.5/10)
* Strong (7/10)
* Happily (7.5/10)
* Right Now (6.5/10)
* Little Black Dress (8/10)
* Throught The Dark (7/10)
* Something Great (6/10)
* Little White Lies (7/10)
* Better Than Words (7/10)
* Why Don't We Go There (7.5/10)
* Does He Know? (7/10)
* Alive (6.5/10)
* Half a Heart (8.5/10)
* One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) (8/10)

Nota Final: ... read more

Tr3yway
64

One Direction Went the Other Direction Part 1.3

They have a song called Best Song Ever. It better be the best song ever.

1. Best Song Ever- Great (I feel scammed. This is not the best song ever. It's the 2nd best song on the album! I WANT MY 3 MINUTES BACK)
2. Story Of My Life- Great (One of their best singles)
3. Diana- Good (Diana would leave =D)
4. Midnight Memories- Good (It's aight)
5. You & I- Good (Not bad)
6. Don't Forget Where You Belong- Great (I'll give them this one)
7. ... read more

73

Eles tinham a fórmula, tinham fãs, tinham carisma e tinham músicas boas, eu vivi isso...

karendroit
66

en este album louis tiene los mejores solos.

favoritas: something great, half a heart, dont forget where you belong, through the dark

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Added on: November 25, 2013