Stage Fright
by The Band
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Stage Fright is ranked 4th best out of 19 albums by The Band on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Band is The Band which is ranked number 250 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,428.
(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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Stage Fright track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Stage Fright ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 20 hours ago |  EyeKanFly | 8,419 | 65/100 | |
| 41 hours ago | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 | |
| 02/22/2026 14:15 | Deckard | 43 | 91/100 | |
| 02/13/2026 13:08 | ElstonGunnn | 901 | 82/100 | |
| 01/31/2026 14:23 | Imaybeparanoid | 7,343 | 71/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 75.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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Jboy56 03/19/2023 08:48 | #295177
You should listen this, very good.
Solid album, but not much reason to put this one on often over The Band's first two albums or Northern Lights—Southern Cross... it's just a little regular compared to those records. Definitely a couple tracks worth looking out for though, namely The Shape I'm In, The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, and the title track.
Very good.
After the musically and thematically ambitious The Band, Stage Fright is a much more modest and stripped back effort. The songs are much more personal, with the group telling their own stories rather than America’s stories; the title track is about Robertson’s struggle with stage fright in his career.
Not as brilliant or essential as their first two albums, but still a very good record. Easily, their third best album.
Not their best record and certainly not their worst. A bit of a let down considering their previous albums.
Best Track: Shape I'm In
The musical atmosphere has fallen off from the last album.
Bork 11/18/2010 05:26 | #16445
While not bad in any definition of the word, this is a pale record in comparison with the one preceding it. Shape I'm In and W.S. Walcott Medicine Show stand out.
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