Shoot Out The Lights (studio album) by Richard & Linda Thompson
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Richard & Linda Thompson bestography
Shoot Out The Lights is ranked 2nd best out of 8 albums by Richard & Linda Thompson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Richard & Linda Thompson is I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight which is ranked number 1069 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,655.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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03/07/2024 08:51 | Jboy56 | 4,093 | 78/100 | |
12/17/2023 01:39 | MetaKoopa99 | 602 | 90/100 | |
12/05/2023 10:59 | ElstonGunnn | 798 | 82/100 | |
10/04/2023 16:01 | DommeDamian | 6,277 | 49/100 | |
09/28/2023 14:03 | fabm0 | 5,977 | 59/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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Surely one of the top singer-songwriter albums of the '80s. A beautifully put-together record between two humans at their wit's end with each other; Richard and Linda were going through a divorce at the time of recording. The mix between Linda's tender, thoughtful ballads and Richard's upbeat rockers, all tied together with the same wistful themes of their deteriorating relationship is excellent. Perhaps Richard doesn't get enough credit for being a top-tier songwriter, and a guitar player at that. Many highlights to pick from here, most notably Wall of Death, Man in Need, Walking on a Wire, and the masterful title track. Definitely a record worth a listen every now and then.
Perhaps the best folk rock album of the 80's. Even better; getting through the album while their marriage was breaking down. The songs reflect have they were feeling during that time.
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Supremely well-written and terrific guitar playing from Richard, amazing melodies delivered so well by Linda. A generally joyous album, but their relationship problems manage to appear underneath the whole thing. Terrific.
Maybe it just stands out in contrast to the never-ending slog of The Fall that I had been listening to before this, but I ended up liking this quite a bit.
Good songs as always with Thompson, but I find the production way too slick. If it was recorded more like their seventies albums it would have been so much better. Still, a very good break up record with, walking on a wire, don't renege on our love, and, just the motion, the highlights. Great songs, but just a bit too polished for me.
Way back in the 90s, there was an Internet service called Firefly which asked you to rate a bunch of albums. In return, it would give you a recommendation.
Firefly gave me this, and I was none too happy. It didn't seem like something I would like, but boy did I!
I believe Amazon bought Firefly and used it as the basis for its recommendation engine. I would never have picked up this album. I l still listen to it and still love it.
Not really feeling this. Think I'll come back to it some time.
Very good album - Richard Thompson is a very underrated guitarist and everything on this album sounds fresh and new, which is not always the case with folk. But for me it is lacking the emotional impact that I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight has.
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