Bare Wires (studio album)
by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers bestography
Bare Wires is ranked 5th best out of 45 albums by John Mayall on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by John Mayall is A Hard Road which is ranked number 6824 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 187.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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70/100  | 08/30/2025 16:30 | dukeboxkool | | 72/100 |
75/100 | 07/24/2024 19:48 | LosWochos | | 75/100 |
80/100 | 11/17/2023 00:50 | albumceleste | | 57/100 |
75/100 | 09/21/2023 21:27 | TonySayers61 | | 64/100 |
95/100 | 11/06/2022 23:05 | Mumblebumble67 | | 72/100 |
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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 74.3/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.
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Fabulous. One of Mayall's best albums.
First half is Bare wires suite, a series of bluesy compositions that flow one after another like a dream or a trip.
Second half features a couple of fast paced blues ('killing time' with great sax work, 'She's too young' and the instrumental 'Hartley quits'), and three less beat driven ones -wich are the best of the album-. 'No reply' is a wha guitar driven blues over a percussion background while 'Sandy' take us back to the Delta with dark slide guitar tones. Lastly the star track IMO is 'I'm a Stranger', a slow blues with a very deep performance.
One of the best white blues albums out there. Period.
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