Pure Comedy
by Father John Misty
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Father John Misty bestography
Pure Comedy is ranked 2nd best out of 15 albums by Father John Misty on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Father John Misty is I Love You, Honeybear which is ranked number 328 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,076.
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Pure Comedy track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 07/12/2026 18:44 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2026 20:25 | matterhornrider | 5,130 | 81/100 |
| ! | 06/12/2026 18:59 |  covecove | 6,677 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2026 21:06 | Vasco | 746 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2026 01:42 | oilnoilnoilnoil | 272 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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Some very nice singing, instrumentation and production. The lyrics are thoughtful, but the melodic progressions are very underdeveloped and each song is a little too similar to be a truly great album. The album is also too long. If tracks 7, 9, 10, and 11 were cut, the album would be the better for it. It is still very good, though. 8.5/10! (Edited)
very underrated by so many people. personally I loved it.
VictorVale 06/16/2019 17:46 | #237644
Fortíssimo entre melodias lindas e letras cínicas.
I don't want to be mean, but if you call the writing on this album bad you might need your head checked. Political commentary hasn't been this good since TPAB.
It's funny, cutting, self-aware, and postmodern. What more could you want from FJM?
Pretentious seems like a based criticism, but he's always self-aware, negating that argument.
Smoochie and Two Wildly Different Perspectives don't belong here, but the rest is a high water mark in 2010's folk ambition and execution.
This'll be a stone-cold classic in about 15 years.
This has to be the most depressing album I ever heard. I was just miserable listening to this album and wanted to cry. Yet, I love this album.
luigybetis 06/03/2018 12:07 | #216080
When a 70+ minute album doesn't get you bored/tired/anxious, it means the artist did a great job. Congrats, Padre Juan Brumoso. 8/10.
Well written cynicism mixes with standard piano play to make a strange combination of interesting and dull.
I'm a big fan of Father John Misty and I Love You, Honeybear is one of my favourite albums from the 2010s. The issue with this album is its inconsistency: the title track is great, as is Total Entertainment Forever (along with a few others), but there are so many songs which are uninteresting and boring to me. I'm really interested to hear what FJM has to say next though, he is a very talented musician.
I came back to this album recently after initially being incredibly turned off by the last three-quarters of it. The first four tracks are all great, prime FJM. But god do I hate Birdie and Leaving LA. I think it's the combination of the soft, drawn-out feel of the songs and FJM's always-wailing vocal delivery that really grinds me. However, the tracks after that are all alright. The lyrics are pretty good (insightful and pretentious), and the music is pleasant enough.
Best Tracks: Ballad Of The Dying Man, Total Entertainment Forever, Pure Comedy
Came for the melodies, stayed for the surprisingly self-aware social commentary. 9/10
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