Storms
by Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith bestography
Storms is ranked 8th best out of 23 albums by Nanci Griffith on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nanci Griffith is The Last Of The True Believers which is ranked number 4637 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 302.
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Storms track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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| 12/19/2025 02:56 | LI2023 | 4 | 95/100 | |
| 11/28/2025 21:48 |  Kingturtle | 7,533 | 73/100 | |
| 09/06/2024 09:10 | TonySayers61 | 23,763 | 64/100 | |
| 11/02/2023 09:53 |  MetalMan67 | 5,998 | 71/100 | |
| 05/17/2023 00:36 | BorderFreeAndrew | 14,879 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.4/100, a mean average of 71.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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Storms is Nanci Griffith's seventh studio album and her third for the MCA label. Following the commercial failure of Little Love Affairs, Griffith moved to the pop section of MCA and tried her darndest to make a pop album with a strong folk core.
The material is nice but does not really live up to the content she had produced earlier in the decade. Still, it's a lovely album and a welcome contribution to her catalogue.
Particularly excellent is the title track, written by Griffith's ex-husband Eric Taylor. Taylor was not commercial in any sense of the word, so it's lovely to hear his song performed in such a catchy way.
Three albums into her MCA contract, it must have been frustrating for Griffith to get some traction. "Is anybody out there??" she sings on the final track, and one can only wonder if this is how she felt being tossed around as the record executives tried to figure out how to market such an unorthodox singer and performer.
Also, she sings "Loretta Lynn," not "ritalin" on the track "Listen to the Radio." Misheard lyrics be damned!
Track Pick: Listen to the Radio
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