Across A Crowded Room (studio album)
by Richard Thompson
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Richard Thompson bestography
Across A Crowded Room is ranked 12th best out of 42 albums by Richard Thompson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Richard Thompson is Mirror Blue which is ranked number 4659 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 300.
(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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Across A Crowded Room track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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65/100  | 07/25/2025 11:08 | JamesMowbray | | 70/100 |
10/100 | 03/17/2025 15:08 | RemainInLight | | 36/100 |
60/100 | 07/07/2024 16:23 | TonySayers61 | | 64/100 |
85/100 | 05/16/2024 12:56 | cicadelic | | 73/100 |
80/100 | 03/14/2024 22:37 | PapaShiz86 | | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.8/100, a mean average of 67.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 22.2.
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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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