The Big Area
by Then Jerico
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The Big Area track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Big Area rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | markl73 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 72/100 | 26 |
| 2024 | Junomoogmello | Top 15 Music Albums of 1989 | 5/15 | 4 |
| 2024 | Junomoogmello | 100 Best Music of the Eighties | 43/100 | - |
| 2023 |  nocturnaldelight | Top 99 Greatest Music Albums | 3/99 | 70 |
| 2022 |  craola | Top 20 Music Albums of 1989 | 14/20 | 2 |
| 2022 | nocturnaldelight | Top 52 Music Albums of the 1980s | 2/52 | 20 |
| 2021 |  IanFrance | Top 43 Music Albums of the 1980s | 31/43 | 6 |
| 2020 |  StefanR10 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2019 | nocturnaldelight | My Audio Quality Reference Collection | 8/51 | - |
| 2019 | nocturnaldelight | My All Time Top Tracks | 22/31 | - |
| 2014 |  Secondsoul | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 50/50 | 0 |
| 1989 | Musikexpress.de | The 50 Best Albums of 1989 | 48/49 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 128 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/06/2024 11:13 | markl73 | 619 | 78/100 |
| ! | 11/02/2023 09:09 |  MetalMan67 | 6,150 | 71/100 |
| ! | 03/11/2023 12:55 | TonySayers61 | 25,015 | 64/100 |
| ! | 01/09/2023 03:20 | Moondance | 20,654 | 72/100 |
| ! | 09/10/2022 17:59 | LosWochos | 47,302 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.8/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 7.2.
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nocturnaldelight 10/18/2022 22:06 | #290590 | TOP COMMENT
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Totally underrated pop album from the end of the wave era. Great songwriting with almost no "filler" tracks. And the recording quality is excellent.
Favorite tracks: "Darkest Hour", "Reeling" & "Sugar Box"
I used to own this on tape until some little shite burgled my car in a Yorkshire hotel car park many many years ago! I was so happy to come across an excellent condition vinyl in my local vinyl store recently. Brought back many happy memories (prior to losing my entire tape collection in one night!). For those of you who remember, tapes could be played in cars before CD's! Sweeping the nostalgia to one side, a great eighties synth pop/rock album. Like Silent Running, sits somewhere between U2 and Simple Minds.
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