Wonderful Life (studio album) by Black

Wonderful Life by Black
Year: 1987
Overall rank: 14,846th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 34 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1987 (201st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,041st)
Award Best albums of all time (14,846th)
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Wonderful Life track list

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 34 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.8/100, a mean average of 71.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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70/100
From 07/07/2022 20:01
I always considered this a melancholy album. I still have the original tape which was very much played through the late eighties. So sad this guy died young following serious injuries from a car accident.
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From 10/09/2019 06:21
Front loaded with "the good stuff". Tails off a bit towards the end of the album but a decent album overall.
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From 01/14/2019 08:10
Two excellent singles, a great voice and overall good songs. However, most of the album is a bland 80s soup of sound, especially the lesser tracks. An extra track on the version I heard called Revel in the Rain should have been what they went for sound wise on some of the tracks, jazzy. Good track too.
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From 11/04/2015 12:07
Black aka Colin Vearncombe released this album in 1987 after the world wide success of the song Wonderful Life. That song and the closing song Sweetest Smile are the "slow" songs on this album and the biggest hits but the rest of the album is good with songs full of irony and melancholy.
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