Big Thing (studio album) by Duran Duran

Big Thing by Duran Duran
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 11,578th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 51 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (164th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,660th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,578th)
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Duran Duran bestography

Big Thing is ranked 6th best out of 23 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 572 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,079.

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Big Thing track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 51 votes)
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11/20/2024 00:38 Cherrycolalover  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 12183/100
 
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11/01/2024 01:46 covecove  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,29773/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.8/100, a mean average of 63.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.

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55/100
From 01/29/2016 21:17
This album features three amazing singles
One of them being the hugely underrated and forgotten "Do you believe in shame" = A++
I Dont Want your Love = A
All She wants is = B+
It features a few more very good songs, then some dated filler songs and one unspeakably bad song (Drug)

However if you like DD and the mid/late 80's sound it is definitely worth a listen
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