Bleecker And MacDougal (studio album) by Fred Neil
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Bleecker And MacDougal is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by Fred Neil on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Fred Neil is Fred Neil which is ranked number 3463 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 425.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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04/15/2023 10:56 | Tamthebam | 21,419 | 69/100 | |
03/25/2023 22:30 | Raddi27 | 1,454 | 85/100 | |
12/29/2022 04:50 | Moondance | 17,470 | 72/100 | |
12/15/2022 14:12 | Jboy56 | 4,051 | 78/100 | |
10/31/2022 13:11 | jonny5244 | 8,335 | 63/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.3.
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Right from the jump on this album its clear this is a different, a completely unique take, on the folk singer/songwriter movement which was flourishing in '65. Neil had a strangely beautiful, deep, sonorous voice, which he never uses (here) to overtly emote. He always sounds detached, mildly amused even by the most deeply blues-soaked, depressed songs lyrically.
On songs like the absolutely superb "Blues On The Ceiling" every single aspect of the song just sounds sublime, cool, and yet very off-puttingly dark. The audio indicates the message in the most subtle and gorgeous way, but the lyrics really get to the root and the real existential insanity of deep deep blues. (reminds me a lot of another classic from '65 by Jackson C. Frank...the difference is that musically Frank's "Blues Run The Game" is all on a vector to express the depression just as much as the lyrical content. Its the strange dichotomy of this song which makes it better in my opinion....anyway, way way overlong parenthetical aside ends..... now).
The album is consistently beautiful and nuanced and varied and unique. Songs like "Candy Man", "Other Side to This Life", the title track, etc, are rightfully now regarded as classics of the genre.
Grade: 8.4/10
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