Free And Easy
by Helen Reddy
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Helen Reddy bestography
Free And Easy is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Helen Reddy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Helen Reddy is Helen Reddy's Greatest Hits which is ranked number 35661 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 22.
(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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Free And Easy track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (6 out of 10 tracks have been rated).
Free And Easy rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Squonk007 | Top 17 Music Albums of 1974 | 9/17 | 3 |
| 2025 | Moondance | Top 99 Music Albums of 1974 | 96/99 | 0 |
| 2023 |  TheDude85 | Top 57 Music Albums of 1974 | 39/57 | 2 |
| 2021 |  Listmeister | Top 61 Music Albums of 1974 | 35/61 | 2 |
| 2016 | iancrockert141 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2014 |  philbutrin | Top 55 Music Albums of 1974 | 13/55 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 6 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 14 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/14/2024 11:04 | RemainInLight | 3,573 | 35/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2023 16:57 | Squonk007 | 749 | 24/100 |
| ! | 01/02/2023 20:26 | Moondance | 20,657 | 72/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2021 19:53 | TheDude85 | 9,536 | 83/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2020 18:31 | LosWochos | 47,314 | 75/100 |
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Lead track "Angie Baby" was the third of three #1 Pop hits for Reddy in the US. It's a pretty good tune. And it's the closest thing to "cool" she ever sounded. But all good will is immediately lost with the abomination that follows it. Helen Reddy is one of those very very very whitebread singers who should never, ever, under any circumstances, attempt to rock. Just don't do it, Helen. Nothing good could possibly result.
But attempt it she does. And her version of the then recent Elvis hit, "Raised on Rock" is so unintentionally hilarious, it brings to mind the horror that was Pat Boone's neutering of "Tutti Frutti". Just listen to the way she sings the word "rock". It is humanly impossible to rock any less than that. Helen, you were clearly raised on Broadway show tunes and TV commercial jingles, NOT rock. So don't even try to front.
After that debacle, the album never recovers. The title track, "Free and Easy", literally sounds like a TV jingle hawking paper towels or shampoo or something. "Emotion" rises slightly above the pack, so it's no surprise it was the album's second single (#22 US). But the rest just sounds like leftovers from whatever album Barbra Streisand had out at the time.
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