North (studio album)
by Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello bestography
North is ranked 20th best out of 37 albums by Elvis Costello on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Elvis Costello is This Year's Model which is ranked number 319 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,316.
(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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North track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 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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| ! | 03/18/2025 19:07 | BoxFL | 2,581 | 51/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2023 19:39 |  spigelwii | 570 | 85/100 |
| ! | 02/12/2023 01:35 | Moondance | 19,759 | 72/100 |
| ! | 05/07/2022 07:53 | LosWochos | 46,611 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2022 08:24 | lanadeleswift | 3,498 | 87/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 70.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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indieshins 05/03/2018 23:25 | #214129
I love this album. I think it's his strongest in a good while. Gorgeously atmospheric, paired with some of the best vocals of his career. A late night album that is sorely underrated in his catalogue.
dihansse 12/10/2015 21:16 | #154299
This one of my top 100 albums for which you can check out my comments.
Elvis Costello has issued many good albums and I suppose the best way to get to know him is to listen to "Girls! Girls! Girls!" a 47 song compilation which features a number of my absolutely favorite songs like "I Want You" and "Shipbuilding".
But still I like this album more which Comes in the latter part of his career mainly because I think it is completely underrated. It is a very soft and jazzy album but the songs on it are absolutely gorgeous. The most fantastic ones are "Still" and "Someone Took the Words Away".
this might just be his greatest piece of work
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