Word Gets Around (studio album)
by Stereophonics
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Word Gets Around is ranked as the best album by Stereophonics.
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Word Gets Around track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | mutant | 1,634 | 55/100 |
| ! | 10/09/2025 19:58 | 95rosem | 161 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/11/2025 18:08 | daCritic | 4,382 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2025 20:56 | dukeboxkool | 1,982 | 72/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2025 03:39 | dhbarrett | 8,222 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.
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A massively underrated album. I feel it’s probably been dismissed by the critics because of the poor standard of the majority of other Stereophonics albums. I absolutely loved it when it came and it’s stood the test of time.
Top songs -
A Thousand Trees
Local Boy in the Photograph
Traffic
Too Many Sandwiches
Billy Davey’s Daughter
A promising debut, A Thousand Trees and Local Boy In the Photograph are awesome. The rest of the album has lots of interesting lyrics but I find a lot of the tracks quite samey. A pleasant listen though but the best was yet to come.
Goliath 03/17/2018 14:15 | #211116
One of my favourite albums, Local Boy in the Photograph is the best track.
Another classic Stereophonics these guys know how its done 'Too Many Sandwiches,Traffic,Local Boy In The Photograph best here.
Cymro2011 04/27/2013 17:50 | #74578
Great debut album, the town these guys come from is a 10 minute drive my house.
Great debut album, the only Stereophonics album I listen to these days.
Local Boy In The Photograph and Too Many Sandwiches are great. Very unusual lyrics on this one. Not in an "avant garde" way but more of a "umm... okay" sort of way. And that BURN A THOUSAND TREEEEEEES part is great to. Listened to this a lot when I went on work experience in year 10.
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