Across A Crowded Room (studio album) by Richard Thompson

Across A Crowded Room by Richard Thompson
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 27,008th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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Award Top albums of 1985 (305th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (3,516th)
Award Best albums of all time (27,008th)
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Richard Thompson bestography

Across A Crowded Room is ranked 14th best out of 38 albums by Richard Thompson on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Richard Thompson is Mirror Blue which is ranked number 4174 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 339.

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“Across a Crowded Room” from 1985 is the third solo album by Richard Thompson. The album consists of ten original rock songs written by Thompson himself, and his musicians include old friends from the Fairport Convention in Simon Nicol's guitar and Dave Mattacks' drums.
Thompson's guitar playing is, as always, pleasing to the ear, both his effective rhythm playing and his virtuoso solos. The album starts off strongly with two really solid rockers in "When the Spell is Broken" and "You Don't Say". My favorite, however, is "Shine on Love", which is actually listed as an "extra track". This song is one of the most melodic and has a folkish feel to it. Some of the songs may not be particularly memorable in themselves, but there is a nice homogeneity in the album which is mainly due to Thompson's strong guitar playing.

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