The Circus
by Erasure
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The Circus is ranked 3rd best out of 31 albums by Erasure on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Erasure is The Innocents which is ranked number 5065 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 276.
(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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The Circus track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Circus rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/12/2024 07:05 | TonySayers61 | 25,347 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/18/2024 16:52 | LittleM1971 | 5,990 | 81/100 |
| ! | 04/22/2023 15:15 | pinkfreud1981 | 643 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2023 20:32 |  Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2023 06:33 |  zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.5/100, 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.
johnner 10/31/2012 20:45 | #53807
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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