Reception
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Initial critical response to The Rising was overwhelmingly positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 82, based on 21 reviews. In their 5-star review, Rolling Stone said of the album: "With his new album, The Rising, Springsteen wades into the wreckage and pain of that horrendous event and emerges bearing fifteen songs that genuflect with enormous grace before the sorrows that drift in its wake." Rolling Stone also ranked "The Rising" #15 on its list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade. Uncut called the album: "A brave and beautiful album of humanity, hurt and hope from the songwriter best qualified to speak to and for his country.... A towering achievement." On the other hand, Village Voice had a very mixed response to the album, saying: "September 11 affected us all in different ways, and the way it affected Bruce Springsteen was this—as the second tower toppled from the sky, he was plunged into a world of eternal vagueness."
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