Stage Fright (studio album) by The Band

Stage Fright by The Band
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 3,914th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 144 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (70th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (677th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,914th)
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The Band ‎- Stage Fright - 180G LP Vinyl 2009 Capitol Vaults - Sealed Mint
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Stage Fright is ranked 4th best out of 19 albums by The Band on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Band is The Band which is ranked number 252 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,908.

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 144 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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From 03/19/2023 08:48
You should listen this, very good.
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From 10/05/2022 04:25
Solid album, but not much reason to put this one on often over The Band's first two albums or Northern Lights—Southern Cross... it's just a little regular compared to those records. Definitely a couple tracks worth looking out for though, namely The Shape I'm In, The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, and the title track.
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From 12/30/2019 15:45
Very good.
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From 01/25/2017 21:43
After the musically and thematically ambitious The Band, Stage Fright is a much more modest and stripped back effort. The songs are much more personal, with the group telling their own stories rather than America’s stories; the title track is about Robertson’s struggle with stage fright in his career.
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From 06/22/2016 16:32
Not as brilliant or essential as their first two albums, but still a very good record. Easily, their third best album.
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From 03/16/2016 23:29
Not their best record and certainly not their worst. A bit of a let down considering their previous albums.
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From 01/29/2015 20:06
Best Track: Shape I'm In
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From 11/01/2013 06:35
The musical atmosphere has fallen off from the last album.
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70/100
From 11/18/2010 05:26
While not bad in any definition of the word, this is a pale record in comparison with the one preceding it. Shape I'm In and W.S. Walcott Medicine Show stand out.
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