The "Angry" Young Them!
by Them

The "Angry" Young Them! by Them
Year: 1965
Release date: 1965-06-11
Overall rank: 5,562nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 85 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1965 (44th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (426th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,562nd)

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Overall rank: 5,562nd | 1960s rank: 426th | 1965 rank: 44th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 85 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.


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75/100
From 11/19/2022 15:32 | #291415
Sounds a lot like early Stones.. nice
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60/100
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 | #208183
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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65/100
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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G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria! (and a bunch of other okay tracks)
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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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80/100
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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