Beat Songs
by The Blue Aeroplanes
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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 6906 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 188.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 01/15/2026 16:32 | Leschoses | 88 | 85/100 | |
| 10/17/2025 20:03 | LittleM1971 | 5,947 | 81/100 | |
| 11/11/2024 21:32 | TonySayers61 | 24,433 | 64/100 | |
| 11/02/2024 18:31 | cicadelic | 12,692 | 73/100 | |
| 03/17/2023 22:55 |  Igtonumama | 10,789 | 63/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.6.
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”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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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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