...And A Time To Dance
by Los Lobos
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...And A Time To Dance is ranked 14th best out of 21 albums by Los Lobos on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Los Lobos is Kiko which is ranked number 4143 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 352.
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...And A Time To Dance track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (2 out of 7 tracks have been rated).
...And A Time To Dance rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 4 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 69 Music Albums of 1983 | 21/69 | 4 |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1983 | 17/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | Johnnyo | Rough Trade | 15/33 | - |
| 2018 | rkm | Produced by T-Bone Burnett | 4/100 | - |
| 2015 | Rovers | Top 43 Music Albums of 1983 | 43/43 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 8 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/12/2021 13:08 | Vinyl | 522 | 80/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2021 01:59 | Brooklynreis | 75 | 60/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2019 16:53 |  UofTBlues | 3,636 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/03/2019 20:52 | Pluto11 | 12,260 | 72/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2018 03:21 | dhbarrett | 8,604 | 65/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.4/100, a mean average of 65.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.
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"And a Time Time to Dance" from 1983 was the first Los Lobos album two feature songs in English. In fact, it's really a seven tracks EP, containing two traditional songs in Spanish, a cover of Ritchie Valens' "Come On, Let's Go" and four originals written by Los Lobos bandmembers.
The track "Anselma" earned a Grammy for best Mexican / American performance, but it's probably their cover of "Come On, Let's Go" which would be most crucial for the future career of the group as it led them to record more Valens songs for the highly succesful soundtrack for the big movie "La Bamba".
On this mini-album, the group plays a mix of latin inspired music blended with elements of both r & b and early rock and roll. The three Hidalgo / Perez originals actually sound as if they were written fifties, and the style is quite different from that which gave the group's their big breakthrough with albums like "Will the Wolf Survive," "By the Light of the Moon" and especially the "La Bamba "soundtrack.
For me it is only "Come on, Let's Go", which really sounds like the Los Lobos, I fell for.
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