Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
by John Cale
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John Cale bestography
Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood is ranked 13th best out of 42 albums by John Cale on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by John Cale is Paris 1919 which is ranked number 765 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,261.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 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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| ! | 07/23/2026 14:31 | TroutMaskGreg | 1,810 | 69/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2025 03:55 | PapaShiz86 | 11,660 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/27/2023 17:12 | LosWochos | 47,424 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/29/2023 14:38 |  phantom1305 | 2,812 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/27/2023 18:34 |  Tamthebam | 23,186 | 69/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.0/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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Crumpet 03/30/2018 23:03 | #212023
Not quite classic Cale, but I do think this album is an interesting experiment and is worth listening to if your a fan of John’s. The opening track is the best, really great, but after that there’s a little run of tracks that really aren’t too good before we get to the (almost) title track ‘Nookie Wood’ which is musically ok, but lyrically very interesting. After that we get some nice tracks, the best of which are ‘Mary’ and ‘Midnight Feast’ with the only lowpoint being ‘December Rain’, before ending on another interesting track, ‘Sandman’.
This album does have one major flaw however, one that ruins some tracks, and that flaw is the scourge on music that is autotune. Autotune is a tool that can be used to a musicians advantage, but Cale uses it in a rather unfortunate manner, dating the album more than his work from decades ago. Shame too, there is an amazing album in here somewhere.
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