Stage Fright (studio album) by The Band
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Stage Fright is ranked 5th best out of 19 albums by The Band on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Band is The Band which is ranked number 251 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,249.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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80/100 ![]() | 03/19/2023 08:48 | ![]() | ![]() | 79/100 |
65/100 ![]() | 03/15/2023 13:30 | replacementlevel | ![]() | 71/100 |
60/100 ![]() | 03/10/2023 19:58 | ![]() | ![]() | 60/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 01/22/2023 16:44 | conallmalone | ![]() | 74/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 01/21/2023 02:02 | dhbarrett | ![]() | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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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.

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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