Hard Nose The Highway (studio album) by Van Morrison

Hard Nose The Highway by Van Morrison
Year: 1973
Overall rank: 10,237th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 86 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1973 (174th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,478th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,237th)
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Van Morrison bestography

Hard Nose The Highway is ranked 20th best out of 61 albums by Van Morrison on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Van Morrison is Astral Weeks which is ranked number 66 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 16,894.

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Hard Nose The Highway track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 86 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 71.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.

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Better than I expected, given the reputation. The cover is pretty awful, however.
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Even if it is not among his best I feel it is underrated!
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From 06/03/2011 15:12
This outing, while still very good, is a definite step down from the magnificent five-in-a-row stretch that came before it.
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