Nervous On The Road
by Brinsley Schwarz
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Brinsley Schwarz bestography
Nervous On The Road is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Brinsley Schwarz on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Brinsley Schwarz is The New Favourites Of Brinsley Schwarz which is ranked number 34920 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 23.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Nervous On The Road track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Nervous On The Road rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 49/100 | 3 |
| 2025 |  MadhattanJack | Top 35 Music Albums of 1972 | 24/35 | 2 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 88/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 83/100 | 1 |
| 2020 | Rovers | Top 63 Music Albums of 1972 | 33/63 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 8 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/13/2026 12:57 | TonySayers61 | 25,808 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/06/2025 18:07 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
| ! | 04/23/2023 07:41 | MadhattanJack | 6,029 | 66/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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"Nervous on the Road" is a solid down to earth album by Brinsley Schwarz. The album breaks down genre of roughly equal parts of rock, country, blues and pop. Without quite reaching the heights of its predecessor, "Silver Gun", it is a satisfactory album with several good songs, most of them written by Nick Lowe.
You won't find classics a la "Peace, Love and Understanding", but the title-track "Nervous on the Road" and "Surrender To The Rhythm" are straightforward rockers as the group play them best.
The ballad "Do not Lose your Breath On Love" is among Lowe's best Brinsley Schwarz ballads.
Ian Gomm wrote only one song for the album, the humorous Buddy Holly pastiche "It's Been So Long"
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