Open Your Heart
by The Men

Open Your Heart by The Men
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-03-06
Overall rank: 5,055th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 113 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2012 (95th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (914th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,055th)

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 5,055th | 2010s rank: 914th | 2012 rank: 95th  Overall chart history
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Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 86
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 276
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 113 votes)
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07/12/2026 01:31 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,15070/100
 
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03/05/2023 15:51 Cyrax  Ratings distribution  1,85561/100

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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 74.1/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.


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75/100
Hardcore that takes time to take in Krautrock, Shoegaze and Americana. If ever there were to be a raging soundtrack to a break up, this album does it. Cos that's exactly what's happening here.
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From 11/16/2013 18:28 | #92943
Some serious skills here. I agree, Candy is the best song.
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I only ever put this on for 'Turn It Around'. When I do listen to the rest I find myself enjoying it... don't remember it a week later. All the guitars and mess should be appealing to me. Perhaps I should check out different albums by them?
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Rating:  
80/100
This album really impressed me. The Men have a very interesting sound to them. The first track on the album made me think “Oh, ok, these guys are kind of a new punk band." Then, every track was different. One minute these guys are blasting at you, knocking you down, and the next they’re picking you back up just to knock you down again. There are loud rock songs, and lengthy instrumentals, just a little bit of everything. They’re loud but not too loud, they blast their music but it’s not the kind that you lose the instruments in. They are very talented musicians, very proficient on their instruments. This isn’t an album that you’re going to be singing along to, but it’s one you’ll enjoy.
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From 03/31/2013 05:10 | #70750
Great find! Opening track is so catchy
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Rating:  
85/100
From 11/26/2012 22:11 | #55962
It's hard and i like it.
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100/100
From 11/11/2012 20:03 | #54791
Rocks so hard. One of the best albums in years.
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60/100
From 10/22/2012 19:48 | #53162
The first half of the album (5 songs) is not interesting. Sounds like Ramones and Sex Pistols or kinda. Not interesting. Instrumental tracks have interesting idea: feels like "hypnotizing punk". But they are boring.
"Open your heart" is good. But it's very like Buzzcocks-Ever Fallen in Love. But this song is very good.
The next one "Candy" has charisma-bass, sounds like 70-s ballad (Kiss "Beth") with Bob Dylan's vocals. Good.
Album is very mediocre and a bit late to time.
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Rating:  
75/100
Good, if they were around 15 years ago they would have easily been classified as post-rock (a la Trans Am).
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90/100
Powerfull. Along with Attack on Memory, best alt/punk music of this year.
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