Beat Songs (studio album)
by The Blue Aeroplanes

Beat Songs by The Blue Aeroplanes
Year: 1991
Overall rank: 15,962nd   
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 19 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1991 (215th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (2,541st)
Award Best albums of all time (15,962nd)

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The Blue Aeroplanes bestography

Beat Songs is ranked 3rd best out of 14 albums by The Blue Aeroplanes on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Blue Aeroplanes is Swagger which is ranked number 7114 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 178.

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Beat Songs rankings

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Overall rank: 15,962nd | 1990s rank: 2,541st | 1991 rank: 215th

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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.6/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.6.

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From 01/21/2023 13:58 | #293133
”Beatsongs” was The Blue Aeroplanes’ follow-up to their much acclaimed ”Swagger” album. The album was recorded in the U.S. and produced by Elvis Costello and Larry Hirsch. It was their second album on a major label (Ensign) and their highest charting, reaching no. 33 in the UK Albums Chart.
It has the trademarks of ”Swagger”, great guitar-lines, spoken lyrics and some great harmony-vocals on several; actually an overall sound not unlike Australia’s Midnight Oil.

”Beatsongs” is very consistent, containing no weak songs, with at least a handful very good songs. My two favourites are ”Angelwords”, ”Colour Me”, both some great melodic guitar-lines, and ”Yr Own World” which also have the nice harmony vocals. Also a great cover-version of Paul Simon’s ”The Boy in the Bubble”.

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From 11/18/2016 04:53 | #178627
Truly lovely album featuring beautifully composed songs with great inde style guitar and keyboards. The vocals are particularly interesting being delivered half sung half spoken. There is no filler, but faves include: My Hurricane; Aeroplane Blue (which I heard back in 1991 on a great BBC Radio London rock programme); Colour Me, and the magnificent closer, Sixth Continent.
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