The Trouble With Normal (studio album)
by Bruce Cockburn

The Trouble With Normal by Bruce Cockburn
Year: 1983
Overall rank: 19,121st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 15 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (248th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,545th)
Award Best albums of all time (19,121st)
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Bruce Cockburn bestography

The Trouble With Normal is ranked 7th best out of 34 albums by Bruce Cockburn on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bruce Cockburn is Stealing Fire which is ranked number 8073 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 154.

Bruce Cockburn album bestography « Higher ranked (17,625th)
Big Circumstance
This album (19,121st)
The Trouble With Normal
Lower ranked (22,063rd) »
Nothing But A Burning Light

(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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The Trouble With Normal track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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68/100 (from 15 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.3/100, a mean average of 65.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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From 01/28/2015 03:59
Bruce Cockburn should have been noticed outside of Canada. Same ilk as Steve Earle (different sound).
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