Bizarro
by The Wedding Present

Bizarro by The Wedding Present
Year: 1989
Release date: 1989-10-23
Overall rank: 3,072nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 98 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (38th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (455th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,072nd)

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The Wedding Present bestography

Bizarro is ranked 2nd best out of 19 albums by The Wedding Present on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Wedding Present is George Best which is ranked number 2710 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 583.

The Wedding Present album bestography « Higher ranked (2,710th)
George Best
This album (3,072nd)
Bizarro
Lower ranked (3,701st) »
Seamonsters

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Bizarro track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Bizarro rankings

Bizarro rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,072nd | 1980s rank: 455th | 1989 rank: 38th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).
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2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 198920/1004
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 69 Music Albums of 198951/691
2026SumbodyTop 41 Music Albums of the 1980s33/414
2026 MadhattanJackTop 74 Music Albums of 198938/743
2026LittleM1971Top 100 Greatest Music Albums87/10014
2026TastyandTemptinTop 47 Music Albums of 19893/475
2026 Patman360Top 86 Music Albums of 19899/865
2026 HaydenTop 50 Music Albums of 198940/501
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of 198925/1004
2026 paladisiacTop 100 Music Albums of 198997/1000
2026 dihansseTop 60 Music Albums of 19895/605
2026LittleM1971Top 88 Music Albums of 19894/885
2026TastyandTemptinTop 100 Greatest Music Albums91/10010
2025JohnnyoIndie of the year 1989 by Radio X20/20 -
2025 dihansseTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s40/10012
2025 IgtonumamaTop 100 Music Albums of 198942/1003
2025 RepoTop 100 Music Albums of 198917/1004
2025 paladisiactop 60r albums (59), #0101-0200*5/96 -
2025WeepingguitarmanTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s20/10016
2025LittleM1971Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s27/10015
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 92
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 499
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 98 votes)
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07/16/2026 08:48 ChrisHead  Ratings distribution  3100/100
 
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07/12/2026 19:08 ShenBapiro  Ratings distribution  36580/100
 
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05/23/2026 19:43 covecove  Ratings distribution  6,66474/100
 
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03/03/2026 15:22 mgreg50  Ratings distribution  19893/100
 
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01/22/2026 10:31 BrianBoehm  Ratings distribution  8794/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.8/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.


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95/100
From 07/12/2024 22:01 | #304303
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
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
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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Rating:  
70/100
From 06/09/2014 11:13 | #114089
TAKE ME!!
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Rating:  
85/100
From 12/14/2012 14:02 | #57883
Consistently good the whole way through
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Rating:  
80/100
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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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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Rating:  
100/100
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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