Queen Of Denmark
by John Grant

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Queen Of Denmark by John Grant
Year: 2010
Release date: 2010-04-19
Overall rank: 1,491st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 158 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2010 (23rd)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (233rd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,491st)

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Queen Of Denmark is ranked as the best album by John Grant.

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Overall rank: 1,491st | 2010s rank: 233rd | 2010 rank: 23rd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 158 votes)
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From 04/13/2013 14:49 | #72817 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
1976 and heartbroken. Classic songwriting of the sort not seen since Rufus Wainwright's 'Want', the quality here is so good that John Grant's debut would be critically acclaimed in any decade since the 1960s. Love is hell, other people are hell, and over and over again. Massaging a bruise until it is a rhapsody in purple, red, and blue. Is this album excellent? Yes.
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From 09/20/2018 13:51 | #221341 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Funny, tuneful and brutally-honest-at-times indie folk, John Grant is like Father John Misty if Misty wasn't so damn lyrically obscure and musically all-over-the-place. I also hear an ear for Pink Floyd now-and-then with his cinematic instrumental touches on a fine debut album backed by Midlake.
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From 01/23/2013 13:09 | #62611 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Really strong songwriting with lots of emotion and plenty of wit. My biggest worry when listening to this album is how much I like Chicken Bones but at the same time think it sounds very similar to Nickelback's Rockstar but lines like "I feel just like Sigourney Weaver when she had to kill those aliens and one guy tried to get them back to the earth and she couldn't believe her ears" and "You tell me that my life is based upon a lie, I casually mentioned that I pissed in your coffee" soon blow those worries away.
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From 06/18/2016 13:25 | #169058 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
John Grant's debut solo album is one of the best albums of the last ten years. Queen of Denmark, is typical Grant, great music and some fantastically hilarious lyrics, especially the line about Winona Ryder not getting the accent right. A superb album from an artist who still has a lot to offer.
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From 08/08/2020 09:55 | #256813 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Top record beauty and pain throughout with moments of humour. Dreams go to die is luscious, Sigourney weaver just wonderful. ' I think I am on Jupiter, the one that looks like rainbow sherbet'
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