The Modern Dance (studio album) by Pere Ubu
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 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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80/100  | 4 days ago |  souplipton | | 70/100 |
80/100 | 06/12/2022 15:19 |  LedZep | | 79/100 |
75/100 | 06/07/2022 18:23 | Guigou | | 74/100 |
70/100 | 05/18/2022 16:42 |  teague | | 80/100 |
95/100 | 04/27/2022 17:36 |  sageamagoo | | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.4/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.5.
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I love The Modern Dance. I find it positively accessible compared to some of his more recent stuff.
Jboy56 12/27/2021 14:18
Not for me, I think that I settle for little less challenging albums...
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StefanR10 06/20/2020 10:38
Good album a little bit average but ok. I give it a good 85 for interesting noise rock and punk rock like the Sex Pistols.
planetneutral 01/13/2018 05:16
This album was surprisingly fun to listen to, although I found the last ten minutes or so more of a trial than I typically like.
One of my all time favorites. Brilliant! A masterpiece.
I first heard this masterpiece in 1980 at universty, and although it sounds relatively tame in 2017, in 1978 'The Modern Dance' was a radical revolutionary new kind of music, birthed in punk - soaked in experimentation and sophistication.
It has dated well, an exceptional work.
A great post punk album. Similar in attitude and presentation with Joy Division's, unknown pleasures. The modern dance, is a fantastic record of alienation, frustration, and anger, and delivered with a swagger. There is no point in picking out individual tracks, it all needs to be listened together in one sitting, like most great albums. A classic late seventies LP.
A challenging album, not to everyone taste. If the listener pays attention it's capable of creating a soundscape environment unlike anything you've heard before. Highly recommended.
calsper 03/25/2015 00:31
I was so excited about this on the first listen and on many more to come!
Not quite a masterpiece to me yet, but I could see it growing on me more.
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