The Magazine
by Rickie Lee Jones

The Magazine by Rickie Lee Jones
Year: 1984
Release date: 1984-09-12
Overall rank: 8,366th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 36 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (121st)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (1,188th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,366th)

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Rickie Lee Jones bestography

The Magazine is ranked 3rd best out of 21 albums by Rickie Lee Jones on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Rickie Lee Jones is Pirates which is ranked number 2543 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 624.

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The Magazine
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The Magazine rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,366th | 1980s rank: 1,188th | 1984 rank: 121st  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 36 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.


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Rickie Lee Jones 3rd studio album is one of her best. Gravity, It Must Be Love and Runaround are all brilliant songs , the final tracks are a mini suite - Rorschachs/Theme For The Pope - The Unsigned Painting/The Weird Beast and is a haunting end to the album.
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"Runaround" is one of the very best tracks of the 80s
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