Song Cycle (studio album) by Van Dyke Parks
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Song Cycle is ranked as the best album by Van Dyke Parks.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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85/100  | 03/17/2024 19:35 |  djnizzi | | 80/100 |
80/100 | 03/05/2024 19:02 | matterhornrider | | 82/100 |
80/100 | 02/12/2024 22:55 | thepardunk | | 73/100 |
40/100 | 01/19/2024 04:46 | albumceleste | | 57/100 |
85/100 | 11/08/2023 15:44 | replacementlevel | | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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Jboy56 08/28/2022 06:32
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mdbaxter 08/28/2020 14:23
Everything about this record is incredibly well thought out. It's so dense that it's hard for me to understand how one person could have command of the vast amount of knowledge that it takes to produce something like this. It is an abject departure from the newly dominating styles of the time but loses none of their excitement and compounds upon their inventiveness. A masterpiece.
Boltzmann 09/03/2018 19:44
this is not really baroque pop. In baroque pop the pop is made first and then given a classical production. The songwriting doesn’t really sound like pop, rather it seems to come from a musical. But the most annoying thing is how the music seems to follow the singing so literally. He probably tried to hard indeed, but the biggest problem is that his approach is completely wrong. “Direction is more important than speed”.
Definitely a heady record, but it's definitively a work of genius. Took the baroque revival of the 60's to another level
It's weird. It sounds like a Looney Tunes episode. I like it.
SuedeSwede 06/18/2016 13:57
lol I had this at 60 a week ago. fuck me.
Kingturtle 03/30/2016 18:01
tries much too hard.
This is an overlooked masterpiece, it's just incredible.
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