Strange Angels (studio album)
by Laurie Anderson

Strange Angels by Laurie Anderson
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 6,717th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 46 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (92nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (977th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,717th)

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Laurie Anderson bestography

Strange Angels is ranked 4th best out of 12 albums by Laurie Anderson on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Laurie Anderson is Big Science which is ranked number 1053 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,651.

Laurie Anderson album bestography « Higher ranked (5,977th)
United States Live
This album (6,717th)
Strange Angels
Lower ranked (6,717th) »
Strange Angels

(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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Strange Angels track list

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 46 votes)
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10/12/2025 07:03 MadhattanJack  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,19165/100
 
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08/23/2024 23:22 Skerns  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,97480/100
 
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11/01/2023 22:24 MetalMan67  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,90971/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.9/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.

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From 08/20/2019 18:56
A comparably 'tame' album from NYCs resident performance artist extraordinaire - this features Anderson's latent attempt at creating a 'pop' album. Although unwritten in the accompanying booklet what a listener will find here are some of this left field artist's most mainstream work.
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From 02/06/2016 12:19
A solid record from a interesting artist.
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From 06/07/2012 12:21
IMO, "Ramon" is her second best song after "O, Superman". It is Track 4:
http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Angels/dp/B003A9GTGC/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1339072085&sr=1-1-catcorr

Couldn't find the whole song on youtube.
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