Midtown 120 Blues
by DJ Sprinkles
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The best album by Terre Thaemlitz is Midtown 120 Blues which is ranked number 8262 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 150.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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| 11/29/2025 04:24 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,296 | 70/100 | |
| 09/27/2025 13:19 | TonySayers61 | 24,162 | 64/100 | |
| 04/19/2025 14:17 |  EyeKanFly | 8,544 | 65/100 | |
| 03/19/2025 16:10 |  Dingerbell | 4,017 | 62/100 | |
| 06/03/2024 01:35 |  colonelchibbers | 2,954 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 22.1.
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The pinnacle of deep house, "Midtown 120 Blues" emphasises the hugely significant and forgotten cultural importance of house in its introductory track along with the hijacking of this queer culture created by people of colour (see: madonna's vogue) in "Ball'r" whilst deftly providing the tunes throughout. These aren't just bangers though, the ten tracks evoke a huge range of deeply felt emotions, and with that I have absolutely no issue in calling this a landmark record.
"The House Nation likes to pretend clubs are an oasis from suffering, but suffering is in here with us. The contexts from which the Deep House sound emerged are forgotten: sexual and gender crises, transgendered sex work, black market hormones, drug and alcohol addiction, loneliness, racism, HIV, ACT-UP, Thompkins Sq. Park, police brutality, queer-bashing, underpayment, unemployment and censorship - all at 120 beats per minute. These are the Midtown 120 Blues."
meruizh 01/10/2015 02:22 | #131198
Good album, it works great as a background techno album. Nice flow. The intro and "Midtown 120 Blues" combo work perfectly together.
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