When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
by Jens Lekman
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Jens Lekman bestography
When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Jens Lekman on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jens Lekman is Night Falls Over Kortedala which is ranked number 1486 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,140.
(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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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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| 12/18/2025 11:12 | Leginlists | 2,862 | 83/100 | |
| 10/06/2025 22:36 | daCritic | 4,437 | 73/100 | |
| 08/19/2025 08:23 | TonySayers61 | 23,927 | 64/100 | |
| 07/21/2023 18:14 | cicadelic | 12,215 | 73/100 | |
| 05/07/2023 16:35 |  babyBlueSedan | 3,072 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.
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A hopeless romantic, but he manages to get away with it. The vocals remind me so much of Matt Berninger(The National), I've always wondered if I'm alone in that, as I've never heard anyone else draw the same comparison.
babyBlueSedan 07/19/2020 03:27 | #255800
This one took me a few listens to get into as I expected something poppier along the lines of Night Falls Over Kortedala. It's much more intimate and only really bursts open on a couple tracks ("You Are the Light" and the closer), but after a few listens the subtlety of the other tracks started to hit me as well. The crackling backing of "Tram No 7" and the orchestral "You Are the Light" stand in sharp contrast to the a capella "Do You Remember the Riots," but the best songs are somewhere in between. "If You Ever Need a Stranger" is beautiful and foreshadows the lyrical themes Jens would tackle on future albums. The strongest bit of the album is the last three songs, starting with the plaintive and hypnotic "Psychogirl," which segues into the title track, the most touching song on the album. The triumphant closer is the perfect way to wrap that sequence up, with Jens being as cheeky as ever with that opening bit about suffocating while making out and finding God. His cleverness is already apparent here, though I do think this brilliant turns of phrase aren't always quite worked out here and sometimes feel a bit clumsy. The "red in the face as a lobster" line from "Do You Remember the Riots" still feels like a forced rhyme even though I now enjoy the song, and the "I don't think we should reveal her name" bit from "Psychogirl" is just tedious. " I'll forgive "We went home to her place and cooked up some chili, it warmed us from the inside cuz the outside was chilly" because how can you not? Speaking of that track - "The Cold Swedish Winter" - it has the most beautiful line on the album about wanting to kiss someone because of passion and not because of circumstances. Overall this is a great debut but he'd do better; I wouldn't mind cutting "Julia" and "Sylvia" because they're both in the style of "Pyschogirl" and the latter is easily the best of the three. But the rest is all excellent and worth listening to.
Brilliant debut. Jens in his best troubadour shape and probably his most intimate album. I love this gloomy and sensitive period in his career (with the exception of the perfectly joyfull "You are the light"), which is also reflected on the compilation "Oh you're so silent Jens"
flamingyesdept 03/01/2017 15:22 | #186606
Wonderful. I actually prefer it to Night Falls Over Kortedala by a hair.
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