Big Night Music (studio album)
by Shriekback

Big Night Music by Shriekback
Year: 1986
Overall rank: 41,255th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 11 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (508th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (4,995th)
Award Best albums of all time (41,255th)

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Shriekback bestography

Big Night Music is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by Shriekback on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Shriekback is Oil And Gold which is ranked number 9073 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 133.

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Big Night Music
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Big Night Music rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 41,255th | 1980s rank: 4,995th | 1986 rank: 508th

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75/100 (from 11 votes)
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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 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.

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From 03/08/2022 05:59 | #282498
Another "not my kind of music" album that has entrenched itself on my shelves and isn't going anywhere. "Cradle Song" was a favorite sign off song for my radio days...
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Best Albums of 1986
1. The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
2. Master Of Puppets by Metallica
3. Graceland by Paul Simon
4. So by Peter Gabriel
5. Skylarking by XTC
6. The Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk
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