Real
by Lydia Loveless
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Lydia Loveless bestography
Real is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Lydia Loveless on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lydia Loveless is Somewhere Else which is ranked number 8582 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 145.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 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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| ! | 01/15/2025 10:01 |  DommeDamian | 7,809 | 48/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2023 15:55 | zomg101 | 2,227 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2022 23:17 | henrygreen0203 | 873 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.6/100, a mean average of 67.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.
Real forum mentions
neilgee 10/28/2025 14:00 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
baystateoftheart 03/21/2019 01:37 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
RoundTheBend 12/17/2016 03:42 in You must listen to the album below you.Real comments
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The Ohio singer's follow-up to Somewhere Else. The songs are a little less rife with angst, but still very reflective on life and love. She struggles a little bit with the production on this record. Still decent. Love turns into lust and milk turns into clumps...love it.
Track Pick: Clumps
cestuneblague TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/16/2016 01:17 | #176962 | TOP COMMENT
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Lydia goes through some growing pains as her sound (and production budget) gets bigger, as the more slicker production sometimes mutes the rawer potency of her presentation & songwriting rather than augmenting them. Her best moments still show the one-of-a-kind talent Loveless is, but Real doesn't always get the details right.
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