Peasant
by Richard Dawson
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Richard Dawson bestography
Peasant is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by Richard Dawson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Richard Dawson is 2020 which is ranked number 3361 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 451.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Peasant track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Peasant rankings
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Peasant ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/07/2026 06:52 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,277 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2026 19:59 |  covecove | 6,661 | 74/100 |
| ! | 02/27/2026 22:52 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2025 16:12 | cicadelic | 13,444 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2025 22:54 | Proto | 4,202 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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I assumed quite early on in listening to this album that I wasn’t going to be on board with its quite rigid folksy deconstruction of medieval British life, dedicating a track each to eleven different members of society. I was quickly shut up by the superbly good songwriting, which reaches a peak in the middle of the album with the oddly maudlin Prostitute and the thumping Scientist.
Kalos 09/30/2018 08:34 | #221876 | TOP COMMENT
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Imagine Captain Beefheart playing medieval folk.
A super-strong album. Much originality, much pleasure, superb songwriting
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