Songs By Tom Lehrer
by Tom Lehrer

Songs By Tom Lehrer by Tom Lehrer
Year: 1953
Overall rank: 6,974th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 29 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1953 (7th)
Award Top albums of of the 1950s (208th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,974th)

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Songs By Tom Lehrer rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,974th | 1950s rank: 208th | 1953 rank: 7th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 4 hours ago).

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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 29 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 68.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.


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80/100
This album always impresses me. I don't think anyone in 1953 was writing and performing satire songs about the dirty south, drug dealers, cannibalism, and love beyond death.

This album is true delight for anyone looking for music that is left-of-center and witty and dry.

If this isn't influential I'd be very surprised.

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Tracks: Old Dope Peddler, I Wanna Go Back to Dixie, My Home Town, I Hold Your Hand in Mine
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Your Irish Pub Soundtrack, Slainte!
I rather drink malt!
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This is hilarious! Lonely Island could learn a few things...
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