Nail (studio album)
by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

Nail by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 2,443rd   
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74/100 (from 137 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (31st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (367th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,443rd)

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Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel bestography

The best album by J. G. Thirlwell is Nail which is ranked number 2443 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 649.

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Nail track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Nail rankings

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Overall rank: 2,443rd | 1980s rank: 367th | 1985 rank: 31st

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74/100 (from 137 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.7.

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James Thirlwell, better known as Foetus, became a protagonist of both the London and the New York counterculture, and, ultimately, one of the most significant musicians of the decade, wedding the punk aesthetics to theatrical and classical-music ambitions. 'Nail', his masterpiece of reckless nihilism and 'trash' as a form of art, is the album that best personifies this approach. Thirwell's musical journey is a tortured vision of hell on earth - a nightmare from which its participant appears unable to awake from.
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