Learning To Flinch
by Warren Zevon
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Warren Zevon bestography
Learning To Flinch is ranked 10th best out of 20 albums by Warren Zevon on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Warren Zevon is Excitable Boy which is ranked number 1365 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,264.
(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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Learning To Flinch track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (7 out of 17 tracks have been rated).
Learning To Flinch rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1993 | 50/50 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 1993 | 68/90 | 1 |
| 2025 |  sssvnnn | Top 80 Music Albums of 1993 | 75/80 | 0 |
| 2022 | gloveside | Top 49 Music Albums of the 1990s | 10/49 | 16 |
| 2016 | ecwashere | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 28/100 | 15 |
| 2011 | reneerox | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 43/50 | - |
| 2010 | funkydan | Top 24 Greatest Music Albums | 24/24 | - |
| 2010 | nathan | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 3/10 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 33 | |||
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Learning To Flinch ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/03/2026 16:19 | Pluto11 | 12,259 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/27/2025 14:01 | Tamthebam | 23,243 | 69/100 |
| ! | 10/29/2021 20:56 | Villain | 233 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2020 07:27 | DetectiveI | 674 | 95/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2019 13:21 | sssvnnn | 8,437 | 67/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.
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A live album of stripped down songs Learning to Flinch showcases Warren Zevon's songs at their most simple. Zevon performs all the songs by himself generally on piano or acoustic guitar. My biggest issue with the album is the sound. Hearing Zevon's voice can be an issue at times, mostly during the songs where he's playing guitar. The whole album feels a bit like an audience bootleg. The set does feature most of his trademark songs and a few new ones that would be recorded for his next album Mutineer.
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