Bleecker And MacDougal
by Fred Neil
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Fred Neil bestography
Bleecker And MacDougal is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by Fred Neil on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Fred Neil is Fred Neil which is ranked number 4071 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 360.
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Bleecker And MacDougal track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Bleecker And MacDougal rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 97/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | mostlymor | Top 40 Music Albums of 1965 | 25/40 | 2 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 47 Music Albums of 1965 | 5/47 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 99 Music Albums of 1965 | 19/99 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1965 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1965 | 7/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 50/100 | 10 |
| 2025 | Rivera | C&W | 88/95 | - |
| 2025 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1965 | 35/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 34 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 79 | |||
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Bleecker And MacDougal ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/15/2026 14:49 | Juneof44 | 2,632 | 69/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2026 10:36 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,175 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/31/2025 17:06 |  EyeKanFly | 8,986 | 65/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.5/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.9.
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Bleecker And MacDougal forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/06/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5365): By amirmishali
Mercury 10/06/2017 23:30 in What album are you listening to right now?Bleecker And MacDougal comments
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Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/19/2017 20:40 | #199818
Right from the jump on this album its clear this is a different, a completely unique take, on the folk singer/songwriter movement which was flourishing in '65. Neil had a strangely beautiful, deep, sonorous voice, which he never uses (here) to overtly emote. He always sounds detached, mildly amused even by the most deeply blues-soaked, depressed songs lyrically.
On songs like the absolutely superb "Blues On The Ceiling" every single aspect of the song just sounds sublime, cool, and yet very off-puttingly dark. The audio indicates the message in the most subtle and gorgeous way, but the lyrics really get to the root and the real existential insanity of deep deep blues. (reminds me a lot of another classic from '65 by Jackson C. Frank...the difference is that musically Frank's "Blues Run The Game" is all on a vector to express the depression just as much as the lyrical content. Its the strange dichotomy of this song which makes it better in my opinion....anyway, way way overlong parenthetical aside ends..... now).
The album is consistently beautiful and nuanced and varied and unique. Songs like "Candy Man", "Other Side to This Life", the title track, etc, are rightfully now regarded as classics of the genre.
Grade: 8.4/10
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