Fred Neil (studio album)
by Fred Neil
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Fred Neil is ranked as the best album by Fred Neil.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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75/100  | 10/13/2025 15:17 | Skerns | | 80/100 |
10/100 | 09/14/2025 15:16 | Proto | | 33/100 |
75/100 | 04/07/2025 04:44 | HotZappsBoogaloo | | 84/100 |
75/100 | 03/16/2025 14:27 | TastyandTemptin | | 72/100 |
85/100 | 11/18/2024 00:46 | davidleewrong | | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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pretty good c and w - pop mixture
mdbaxter 12/12/2019 15:45
Great songwriting, vocals and guitar-playing. This is a very clean album with high quality original songs on it. "Dolphins", "Faretheewell" and "Everybody's Talkin'" are fantastic. The honesty that Fred is able to convey is remarkable, especially on the previously mentioned tracks and especially especially on "Dolphins". I love how that song basically embodies his whole being while remaining sop simple. Every song is enjoyable. A clear influence on Tim Buckley.
planetneutral 01/11/2018 00:20
I liked this much more than I anticipated. Quality songwriting.
Mercury 10/19/2017 20:32
Listening to this was an interesting experience. The whole dreamy vibe, with the strange echoey production especially on the classic opener "The Dolphins" sounded so unique. Also it does sound like it had a slight influence on Buckley. Fred Neil's vocals here are the usual unaffected cool, velvety excellence. And the themes are consistently fascinating.
It is interesting to see how far he went in the more dreamy experimentalism with this album compared to his previous album "Bleecker and MacDougal". While I personally feel like the songwriting and the actual songs on his previous album are more engaging and fun, the production and general flow of this album makes it ascend slightly over his excellent debut.
Also that last song, the 8 minute weird psychedelic instrumental, is cool as hell.
Grade: 8.7/10
jazzylover 09/03/2013 22:17
Magnificient folk album. A must have.
'Everybody's talking', 'Dolphins', here are the originals!
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