Spring Hill Fair (studio album) by The Go-Betweens
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Spring Hill Fair is ranked 5th best out of 16 albums by The Go-Betweens on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Go-Betweens is 16 Lovers Lane which is ranked number 955 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,884.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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85/100  | 04/03/2024 23:30 | Skerns | | 79/100 |
55/100 | 09/28/2023 16:00 | fabm0 | | 59/100 |
55/100 | 04/08/2023 07:29 |  MadhattanJack | | 65/100 |
65/100 | 03/14/2023 13:53 |  Igtonumama | | 60/100 |
40/100 | 02/12/2023 15:11 |  MW19704U | | 59/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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The Go-Betweens became a four piece, adding bassist Robert Vickers to the band. With McLennan moving to guitar, the band sound much fuller than before, and Forster’s material is more conventional, forgoing jerky new wave in favour of more conventional pop, although his material is still more fractured than McLennan’s. So conceivably, Spring Hill Fair could have been the album where the Go-Betweens crossed over to the mainstream, spear-headed by the transcendent opener ‘Bachelor Kisses’ (“Don’t believe what you heard/Faithful’s not a bad word”). They didn’t, and never progressed much further than an enthusiastic cult following, but from this point on it gets difficult to see why, beyond Forster and McLennan’s plain singing voices.
One of the most consistently good bands of the 80's. Guess it helps when you have two great songwriters in the band. Oh and this album is way better than the 7th place it currently sits at in the Go-B's discography on this site.
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