Shadowland (The Owen Bradley Sessions) (studio album)
by k.d. lang

Shadowland (The Owen Bradley Sessions) by k.d. lang
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 9,124th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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74/100 (from 57 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (129th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,325th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,124th)

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k.d. lang bestography

Shadowland (The Owen Bradley Sessions) is ranked 2nd best out of 11 albums by k.d. lang on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by k.d. lang is Ingénue which is ranked number 3074 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 488.

k.d. lang album bestography « Higher ranked (3,074th)
Ingénue
This album (9,124th)
Shadowland (The Owen Bradley Sessions)
Lower ranked (21,354th) »
All You Can Eat

(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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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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74/100 (from 57 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.

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From 03/04/2022 06:26
30 odd years on and I still hardly ever listen to this without stopping it at least once to play something over and ask myself "How did she do that?" or "How did she think of that?"
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From 02/21/2022 15:31
This album is so well made and sounds good, so 80/100
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From 02/18/2018 12:30
Avendo io scoperto ed amato "Ingenue" sono poi andato a ritroso alla ricerca di qualche altro suo disco precedente: "Ingenue" rimane inarrivabile, ma questo "Shadowland" si dimostra un signor disco, magari con qualche concessione di troppo ai lustrini…
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From 01/29/2016 13:12
This record blew me away the first time I heard it and I have been a big fan of Ms. Lang's music ever since. From beginning to end not a stinker on here.
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From 08/13/2012 14:57
KD's last remotely country album, before she explored other avenues. Her voice has never sounded better, and she's developing a different approach to her music. Ingenue is better, but this shows her growing as an artist.
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