The "Angry" Young Them! (studio album) by Them

The "Angry" Young Them! by Them
Year: 1965
Overall rank: 6,018th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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74/100 (from 81 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1965 (49th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (472nd)
Award Best albums of all time (6,018th)

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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.

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75/100
From 11/19/2022 15:32
Sounds a lot like early Stones.. nice
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From 10/24/2019 16:55
Everything is decent. It's a very unpolished album. The highlights all come from Morrison's vocals. He shows off some of his talent throughout but I think the best moments come in the first two songs.
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From 02/14/2018 16:22
Disco d'esordio dei Them di Van Morrison che contiene un capolavoro, alcune buone canzoni e molti riempitivi i quali, in effetti, oggi suonano molto datati. A cominciare dal capolavoro "Gloria", l'album è un frizzante R&B che all'epoca poteva benissimo stare nella scia dei Rolling Stones insieme a Who, Pretty Things a Animals...
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From 02/27/2016 20:09
This is an interesting observation: What is really interesting here is to discover Morrison's early style, which has nothing to do with his much more soulful solo career. His voice is closer to Jagger's than the one he adopts in Astral Weeks for example.

Also agree it sounds a bit like the Animals, especially I'm Gonna Dress in Black with the organ.

This is just as good as an Early Rolling Stones album. Average early 60s rock n' roll. Gloria obviously is the famous track. I do like the tone of the bass and guitar on I Like It Like That.
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From 01/24/2015 21:48
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria! (and a bunch of other okay tracks)
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From 06/02/2013 14:42
Mmmh. It's a pretty good album, I don't deny it. It's nothing to be really excited about, though. Just nice rock 'n' roll in The Animals' style.

What is really interesting here is to discover Morrison's early style, which has nothing to do with his much more soulful solo career. His voice is closer to Jagger's than the one he adopts in Astral Weeks for example.

Yeah, and Gloria, too. Without Them (lol), Patti Smith could never have covered it to make it ten thousand times better, so I guess I should be glad this album existed anyway.
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From 07/20/2012 15:28
Somehow we've forgotten about Them, while Van Morrison has been remembered. I suppose the place to go is after a compilation, but if you're going to look for an individual album, this is it. Gloria is packed full of energy...
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