Bang Goes The Knighthood
by The Divine Comedy
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Bang Goes The Knighthood is ranked 9th best out of 16 albums by The Divine Comedy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Divine Comedy is Casanova which is ranked number 2606 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 602.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 08/02/2025 11:04 |  Igtonumama | 10,790 | 63/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2025 15:08 | Invader666 | 2,623 | 65/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2024 19:28 |  dihansse | 6,234 | 75/100 |
| ! | 02/23/2023 15:14 | Shalvey | 745 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/24/2022 06:06 |  MadhattanJack | 5,488 | 65/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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Like most albums from The Divine Comedy "Bang Goes the Knighthood" contains both earnest and jest. Generally the music is a logical extension of the previous two albums "Absent Friends" and "Victory for the Common Muse" which means that there is a good mixture of well-written songs with intelligent lyrics, with a fairly large variation in arragements - you meet both the pretty simple and the more grandiose which Hannon through most of his career has shown a penchant for.
The immediately most catchy song of the album is the single "At the Indie Disco" which somehow never managed to be a real new hit; this is also a song that could easily be mistaken for a Kinks / Ray Davies recording.
The album opens with two great songs; "Down in the Streets Below", is a fine example of Hannon's ability to more complex songwriting, while "The Complete Banker" is another example of music with much in common with the aforementioned Ray Davies. In the finest end I would also put songs like "The Lost Art of Conversation" and "Assume the Perpendicular". Among the lighter and very catchy songs you’ll find "Neapolitan Girl" and "I Like". There are no actual "throwaways" albeit I find "Can You Stand Upon One Leg" just a bit too silly.
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andy_hunter 05/18/2018 22:25 | #215162
Such an underrated album! Hannon's eccentric personality shines through from start to finish.
While previous Divine Comedy albums have used a cultivated persona to great effect, its refreshing to hear an immensely intelligent and witty man loosen up and be himself.
I don't know if its the influence of Duckworth Lewis stuff, or the move to self-release, or just the headspace of Hannon in Dublin vis-a-vis London but it feels like a much more like a direct communication between Hannon and his listeners.
Its like catching up with an old friend or something.
Although not the best of his albums, not sure why this is still rated lower than FFTCM, an album which even Neil Hannon does not like really
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