Give The People What They Want
by Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings
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Give The People What They Want is ranked as the best album by Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings.
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Give The People What They Want track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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| ! | 04/24/2026 22:42 | Moondance | 20,787 | 72/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2025 03:46 | martintho | 4,735 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/18/2025 15:10 |  RockyRaccoon | 7,172 | 84/100 |
| ! | 05/20/2024 02:25 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,708 | 74/100 |
| ! | 03/05/2023 22:22 |  Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.0/100, a mean average of 71.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.
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buzzdainer 05/18/2019 18:06 | #236423 | TOP COMMENT
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Sharon Jones was probably born ten years too late, and a thousand miles too far south, to have been full appreciated for her talents as a funk and soul singer, as she would have fit in perfectly to the Motown scene of the late sixties and early seventies. Nevertheless, she carved out an important niche in the southern soul scene between 2001 and her too-early death from pancreatic cancer in 2016. Give the People What They Want is an aptly named collection of sassy, brass-powered soul tunes that pick up an important thread of soul music and carry it confidently, maybe even a little defiantly, into the twenty-first century.
zdwyatt 01/09/2015 17:12 | #131142 | TOP COMMENT
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I became an instant fan of Sharon Jones after catching a live show a few years ago. She is producing soul and funk that is straight out of the late 60s/early 70s. It does not hurt that she is backed by an impressive group of musicians; they also backed Amy Winehouse on her breakthrough album Back to Black. But where that album was a blend of old sounds with more modern sensibilities, this is old school through and through.
maybe that track number ten is a bonus. guess not. proper placing. rather boring finish to a very old fashioned, yet melody-strong string of hits.
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