Learning To Flinch
by Warren Zevon

Learning To Flinch by Warren Zevon
(Live album)
Year: 1993
Overall rank: 27,759th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 17 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1993 (419th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (4,239th)
Award Best albums of all time (27,759th)

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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 1351 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,275.

Warren Zevon album bestography « Higher ranked (22,907th)
The Envoy
This album (27,759th)
Learning To Flinch
Lower ranked (35,206th) »
My Ride's Here

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (7 out of 17 tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 27,759th | 1990s rank: 4,239th | 1993 rank: 419th

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76/100 (from 17 votes)
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10/27/2025 14:01 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  23,02469/100
 
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10/29/2021 20:56 Villain  Ratings distribution  23379/100
 
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04/07/2020 07:27 DetectiveI  Ratings distribution  67495/100
 
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10/08/2019 13:21 sssvnnn  Ratings distribution  8,40667/100
 
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04/09/2019 17:49 UofTBlues  Ratings distribution  3,63671/100

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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 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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From 10/29/2021 21:00 | #275527
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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