Nights In France (studio album) by Flash And The Pan
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Nights In France is ranked 3rd best out of 9 albums by Flash And The Pan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Flash And The Pan is Flash And The Pan which is ranked number 9087 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 132.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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All 7 charts that this album appears in:
Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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2024 | imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 97/100 | 0 |
2023 | AlexSVK | Top 10 Music Albums of 1987 | 10/10 | 1 |
2023 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 93/100 | 0 |
2021 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 90/100 | 1 |
2021 | Rovers | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 76/100 | 17 |
2020 | Rovers | Top 26 Music Albums of 1987 | 1/26 | 5 |
2012 | Rovers | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 1/100 | 20 |
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 43 |
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08/17/2023 13:21 | AlexSVK | 1,074 | 62/100 | |
01/08/2023 09:02 | Moondance | 17,540 | 72/100 | |
10/04/2020 11:34 | videoheadcleaner | 11,336 | 85/100 | |
03/01/2017 16:32 | Steppenwolf666 | 9,926 | 89/100 | |
01/25/2017 06:56 | Leonard | 6,129 | 69/100 |
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This unique Australian band more or less was an offshot of the successful 1960's band the Easybeats. The talented songwriting team Harry Vanda and George Vanda continued to write material for other artists like John Paul Young after the split up of the Easybeats; but in the late 1970's they formed "Flash and the Pan", mostly as a studio-working band. They had one big hit with "Waiting For a Train" in 1983 and a couple of minor hits prior to that, but today they more or less seem to have been forgotten. This is really a big shame, because they recorded some excellent albums.
"Nights in France" from 1985 was my first album with the band, and I had not owned the album for long, before I knew I had to check out their other albums. This was not an easy task, because apart from "Early Morning Wake Up Call" they were all very hard to find. Note; this was before I was on the internet, and at a time when I still preferred vinyl albums to CD's. Well, back to "Nights in France"!
The opening track "Money Don't Don't Lie" is one og the catchiest rockers they've ever recorded, but still the song bears most of their trademarks, such as intelligent ( often slightly cynical ) lyrics, exellent songwriting and George Young characteristic vocals, sounding like they sung through a megaphone.
The title song is another of the albums many standouts; Beautiful melody and moving lyrics. The grooving riff-based "Ayla" was one of the singles taken from the album; sounds inspired by traditional African music - a song likely to grow on you.
With "Yesterday's Gone" the group is back to the style of early tracks of "Atlantic Calling" or "Down Among the Dead Men" - another favourite!
Apart from the outstanding "Saviour Man" the second half of the album probably doesn't quite live up to the high standards of the first four tracks, but I'll still rank the album as their strongest along with their sensational debut album.
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