Préliminaires
by Iggy Pop
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Préliminaires is ranked 11th best out of 36 albums by Iggy Pop on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Iggy Pop is Lust For Life which is ranked number 526 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,298.
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Préliminaires track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Préliminaires ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/12/2025 22:05 | PapaShiz86 | 11,665 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/04/2025 20:59 | Fabien67 | 393 | 77/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2024 20:44 | Olli | 7,849 | 62/100 |
| ! | 06/27/2024 22:43 |  hoyquarlow | 541 | 76/100 |
| ! | 02/16/2023 20:51 |  pedro1976 | 1,504 | 71/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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Sandrof1969 02/20/2018 18:56 | #208956
Inizia il disco e sembra di sentirne uno di Leonard Cohen; più avanti sembra invece di stare ad ascoltare Tom Waits e comunque le atmosfere dell'album sono praticamente tutte rotanti attorno al jazz, al blues più sofisticato, alla musica che evoca locali fumosi e piccole bands. Qualcosa non torna ed infatti a mettere a posto le cose ci pensa la capacità interpretativa e l'istrionismo, seppur incanalato in territori a lui decisamente poco congeniali, del padrone di casa. Iggy Pop il suo marchio lo lascia infatti pure qui, anche se ci vogliono alcuni ascolti per convincersene.
hoyquarlow 11/18/2015 23:41 | #153117
It was a dream come true ; my favorite singer join force with my favorite novelist to make an album about arguably my favorite novel (The possibility of an island, by Michel Houellebecq)
Sad to say it wasn't enough to make a good album... It's a smoother Iggy, like on Avenue-B... it's not much my kind of Iggy. I can resume Preliminaire like that ; A highly interesting album with rather boring songs...
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