Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
by Japandroids
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Japandroids bestography
Near To The Wild Heart Of Life is ranked 3rd best out of 8 albums by Japandroids on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Japandroids is Celebration Rock which is ranked number 1364 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,251.
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Near To The Wild Heart Of Life track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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| ! | 07/09/2025 22:44 | asimpkins | 2,897 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/01/2024 16:08 | Banner | 4,906 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2023 16:25 | zomg101 | 2,228 | 69/100 |
| ! | 08/13/2023 17:58 | PapaShiz86 | 10,980 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2023 10:50 |  videoheadcleaner | 12,227 | 85/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.3/100, a mean average of 66.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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Arc of Bar and the opener are great, but not good enough to overcome the blandness of the rest of the album. There's no evidence of their supposed Talking Heads influence on here though. Just generic rock sounds through and through.
Brad1770 07/03/2018 04:14 | #217670
2012's rather excellent 'Celebration Rock' was my Japandroids entry point and it would go on to be one my favourites for that year
And so 5 years on 'Near To The Wild Heart Of Life' arrives, a rather long wait IMO for 8 tracks and 38 minutes of new material , and it's quite the mixed bag
The Excellent ?: The nearly 8 minute "Arc of Bar" is the albums pillar and clearly best moment followed by track 3 "True Love and a Free Life ..."
The Good?: "North East South West" , the surprising love song "I'm Sorry .." and "No Known Drink or Drug" are all ok and get a pass mark
The Bad?: and this is where the album lets itself down ...the title track , "Midnight to Morning"and "In A Body Like A Grave" all don't work all and unfortunately subtract from the album over all
So we end up with 2 great tracks, 3 really poor tracks and 3 OK tracks & my score will reflect this
On my 2017 best albums list , but ONLY barely just ..and low down
55 Liquorice All-Sorts Out Of 100
Komorebi-D 02/01/2017 06:21 | #184700
I had high hopes for this project. Now I wasn't disappointed but I keep feeling that it could've been better. Then again, it was never going to top 2012's "Celebration Rock".
Okay record, gets very samey after a while. The title track is a cracker though.
awesomness425 01/23/2017 04:04 | #183960
Pretty average...few songs brought this grade down for being quite awful. There was solid tracks though, but not good enough to likely revisit
On COS.net they talk about the album being 8 songs because they believe it to be the standard template for a great rock n roll album, and then mention The Stooges, Television, Led Zeppelin, Patti Smith, Black Sabbath and Talking Heads amongst others. Nice sentiments but this is rock by numbers in comparison. Nothing awful (apart from maybe track 4), but ordinary (apart from Arc of Bar) in my view and I'm not falling for that 'spiel' and buying it!
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