Easy Pieces
by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

Easy Pieces by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Year: 1985
Release date: 1985-11-22
Overall rank: 6,311th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 65 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (78th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (908th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,311th)

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Lloyd Cole And The Commotions bestography

Easy Pieces is ranked 3rd best out of 7 albums by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions is Rattlesnakes which is ranked number 957 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,818.

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions album bestography « Higher ranked (5,386th)
Mainstream
This album (6,311th)
Easy Pieces
Lower ranked (60,143rd) »
1984-1989

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,311th | 1980s rank: 908th | 1985 rank: 78th

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Easy Pieces ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 65 votes)
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70/100
From 11/04/2023 17:26 | #299797 | TOP COMMENT
Although it’s never made me jump up and down with excitement, the album has an uncanny ability to express that slightly below par melancholy sadness.

So 38 years later it still gets a spin when we’ve had a couple of days drizzle and the mood is right. Or more accurately, slightly wrong.
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From 07/02/2016 17:51 | #170336
My favorite songs : Cut me down....Grace....James....Lost weekend....Rich
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From 11/11/2015 21:56 | #152816 | TOP COMMENT
Good second album but not up to the standard of Rattlesnakes. All good tracks apart from James (which is alright) - when I consider the quality of the B-sides I can't believe this made an album! Rich and Pretty Gone should have been released as singles ahead of Cut Me Down...
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