The New Favourites Of Brinsley Schwarz
by Brinsley Schwarz
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The New Favourites Of Brinsley Schwarz is ranked as the best album by Brinsley Schwarz.
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The New Favourites Of Brinsley Schwarz track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The New Favourites Of Brinsley Schwarz rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 45 Music Albums of 1974 | 36/45 | 1 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 55/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  Taka | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 62/100 | 8 |
| 2024 |  Dankel | Top 26 Music Albums of 1974 | 6/26 | 4 |
| 2023 | Taka | Top 15 Music Albums of 1974 | 5/15 | 4 |
| 2023 | cmoshier | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2020 | Rovers | Top 74 Music Albums of 1973 | 45/74 | - |
| 2020 | caseygow | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2013 | mickmacve | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 25/40 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 24 | |||
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The New Favourites Of Brinsley Schwarz ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/31/2026 09:10 | Olli | 7,739 | 62/100 |
| ! | 02/07/2024 08:52 | TonySayers61 | 25,114 | 64/100 |
| ! | 04/23/2023 06:56 | MadhattanJack | 5,986 | 66/100 |
| ! | 03/07/2022 03:49 | Taka | 1,076 | 80/100 |
| ! | 01/16/2021 14:42 | Dankel | 2,636 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 71.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.
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"New Favourites" may not be the very best Brinsley Schwarz album, but it's certainly one that must taken into account. Most people would probably agree that it is the best produced album (Dave Edmunds) - which moreover also contains the group's only true classic; Nick Lowe's "Peace, Love and Understanding" - pure power pop!!
The group is here is generally more Motown inspired, with tracks like "The Real Thing, " "Trying to Live My Life Without You, " "I Like You, I do not Love You" and "Ever Since You're Gone" as good examples of this. Fine music, without being especially memorable.
You could have wished for more in the direction of "Peace, Love and Understanding" - the closest we come to this is with the fine cover version of the early Hollies song "Now's the Time".
Otherwise, another very memorable song the pretty country ballad "The Look that's in Your Eye" - also written by Nick Lowe.
An odd number is Mersey-beat pastiche "The Ugly Things" - it may be a tongue in cheek thing - but actually a very nice song.
Sad that this should prove to be the last album from the band.
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