Most Messed Up
by Old 97's
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Old 97's bestography
Most Messed Up is ranked 5th best out of 16 albums by Old 97's on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Old 97's is Too Far To Care which is ranked number 4462 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 322.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Most Messed Up track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Most Messed Up rankings
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Most Messed Up ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/22/2026 22:51 | traistboar | 1,762 | 79/100 |
| ! | 10/23/2024 07:01 | cicadelic | 13,629 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/26/2023 19:42 |  paladisiac | 7,319 | 65/100 |
| ! | 03/13/2023 05:20 | Moondance | 20,791 | 72/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2021 21:11 | scottklus | 747 | 55/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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buzzdainer 10/26/2019 21:27 | #244149
Even a below-average Old 97's album is going to be a well above-average album by the standards of most any other artist. They are among the pioneers of the nineties alt-country movement, and their lead singer and songwriter, Rhett Miller, is among the most articulate defenders of independent, creative, non-corporate music making in the whole industry. I think it's important to the remember that, even in their heyday, the Old 97's were never really about brilliant songwriting, but rather the raucous joy of music making and performing. In that way Most Messed Up sounds a bit like a comeback, especially on "Guadalajara," the tale of a businessman tempted by a woman losing her bikini top. Not exactly heady, reflective stuff, but still a hell of a lot of fun.
paladisiac 12/30/2014 22:40 | #130467
This is my favorite old 97's since "blame it on gravity" made 2008's top 10. It's an alt-country-inflected rocker that's a lot of fun as a result of being messed up. A lot of these songs are about drinking (whiskey, malt liquor, whatever), getting laid and simply letting loose, which are subjects that come natural to these guys as these songs are a lot of fun to rock to.
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