Misery Is A Butterfly (studio album)
by Blonde Redhead

Misery Is A Butterfly by Blonde Redhead
Year: 2004
Release date: 2004-03-15
Overall rank: 2,431st   
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 140 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 2004 (37th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (407th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,431st)

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Misery Is A Butterfly rankings

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Overall rank: 2,431st | 2000s rank: 407th | 2004 rank: 37th

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78/100 (from 140 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.

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From 02/12/2021 21:10 | #266237
One of those albums with a stunningly beautiful sound that I wish I liked a bit more.
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Beautiful album. First three tracks are stunning
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From 03/08/2009 07:13 | #2934
For a long time I thought that no album or collection can come near OK computer.
Then came Misery is a butterfly and proved me as being wrong.

The greatest creations usually don’t require additional supportive comparison to shine.
The album is tribute to beauty and every moment in it is a masterpiece.

After I became familiar with Misery I started to suspect that the band’s members are not human being since a human can’t create such beautiful music out of rock/pop.

The first time that I saw Blonde Redhead they were the warm up band for Interpol I was afraid to die from heart attack.

Rani
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