This Is Normal
by GusGus

Album
This Is Normal by GusGus
Year: 1999
Overall rank: 10,447th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 17 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1999 (157th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,659th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,447th)

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This Is Normal track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Ladyshave
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Teenage Sensation
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Starlovers
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Superhuman
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Very Important People
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Bambi
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Snoozer
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Love Vs. Hate
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This Is Normal rankings

This Is Normal rankings summary
Overall rank: 10,447th | 1990s rank: 1,659th | 1999 rank: 157th  Overall chart history
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This Is Normal ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 17 votes)
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 !		12/04/2025 00:05 mostlymor  Ratings distribution  7,07879/100
 
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 !		03/23/2025 16:10 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  26,15464/100
 
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 !		08/12/2022 21:26 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  6,06666/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 71.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.


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Trip hop suits these moody technicians perfectly. Other than that, the album opens with some synthpop, and on the third track they flaunt their house skills, on "Superhuman" a jazzy bass pattern forms the basis of a track that can only be described by "electronica"; it seems that they have abandoned their hardcore (not the genre) techno roots. But they were always more than just techno.

The overly evangelical themes are back as if they never left, though.
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