The Circus (studio album) by Erasure
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The Circus is ranked 3rd best out of 30 albums by Erasure on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Erasure is The Innocents which is ranked number 4777 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 290.
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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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60/100 ![]() | 08/12/2024 07:05 | TonySayers61 | ![]() | 64/100 |
85/100 ![]() | 06/18/2024 16:52 | LittleM1971 | ![]() | 81/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 04/22/2023 15:15 | pinkfreud1981 | ![]() | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.
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This their second album contains their breakthrough chart hits & the first of an amazing twenty-three consecutive top 20 hits in just ten years, they ruled the singles chart from '87-'97. "Sometimes"(2), "The Circus"(6), "Victim of Love"(7) & "It Doesn't Have To Be"(12). No fillers on here, all good pop classics.

Yes, some of the lyrics are very clumsy, but overall the album makes up for it by containing some of Clarke's best songs since Yazoo, as well as establishing Erasure as one of the defining acts of the 80s.
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