Bizarro (studio album) by The Wedding Present

Bizarro by The Wedding Present
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 2,840th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 91 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (37th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (433rd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,840th)
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The Wedding Present bestography

Bizarro is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by The Wedding Present on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Wedding Present is George Best which is ranked number 2528 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 623.

The Wedding Present album bestography « Higher ranked (2,528th) This album (2,840th) Lower ranked (3,518th) »
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Bizarro track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 91 votes)
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02/07/2025 04:59 Proto  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 3,15335/100
 
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Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.

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95/100
From 07/12/2024 22:01
The sound of being a student for me.
Loved it on tape when it came out, loved it on CD when I started to be able to afford them and love it live whenever they play it.
Kennedy is just exceptional. Brassneck, Take Me and Bewitched are within a gnat's crotchet in terms of greatness and the only track I usually skip is What have I said now.
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85/100
From 03/04/2021 20:57
Not one but two of my favorite songs ever: of course Brassneck but also Take Me! This album is suppose to break away a bit from the heavy strung and more towards a heavier guitar sound but Take Me! is the ultimate frantic strum fest and it goes on for more than 9 minutes and I wasn't bored for a second: what a song. And you know what: the whole album is fantastic.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 06/16/2019 21:01
I've been listening to this a bit lately. I picked this up on tape in about 1990 and only really used to play Kennedy and brassneck, probably putting them on a compilation tape. It's only taken 30 years to realise what a gem this is and that the whole album is just as good as those two aforementioned tracks.
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70/100
From 06/09/2014 11:13
TAKE ME!!
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Rating:  
85/100
From 12/14/2012 14:02
Consistently good the whole way through
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80/100
From 06/23/2012 06:07
This is a wonderful album and I prefer it to Seamonsters, but put it slightly behind George Best. I remember seeing the Wedding Present play Dundee in front of about 10 people. They were laughing at me because I had bought Age of Chance's second single and they thought Age of Chance were a bunch of w******.
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From 11/25/2011 06:19
You can never have 'too much apple pie'! ;-)

This is the best album from Leeds Indie Royalty and ex-Brudenell Road residents - each song is a fast paced explosion ... Favourite Tracks are Kennedy,Granadaland and Brassneck
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100/100
From 11/04/2010 21:16
There's not nearly enough love for this, Gedge's finest hour. Less jangly than George Best, less morose than Seamonsters and all the better for it.
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