Black And White (studio album) by The Stranglers
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Black And White is ranked 3rd best out of 28 albums by The Stranglers on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Stranglers is Stranglers IV (Rattus Norvegicus) which is ranked number 1532 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,139.
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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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60/100  | 03/22/2023 13:16 |  MW19704U | | 59/100 |
55/100 | 03/17/2023 10:20 | TradeShark | | 49/100 |
65/100 | 02/01/2023 18:05 | Rovers | | 76/100 |
20/100 | 01/26/2023 07:29 |  AlexSVK | | 62/100 |
75/100 | 01/24/2023 22:04 |  Igtonumama | | 60/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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"Black and White", the third Stanglers album, has the distinctive characteristics from the first two albums; the special organ-playing from Dave Greenfield, the heavy and often melodic bass lines from Jean-Jacques Burnel and, of course, Hugh Cornwell’s easily recognizable vocals.
What "Black and White" probably lacks In comparison to its predecessors, are the really good and memorable numbers. Most people will probably remember the single "Nice" n 'Sleazy ", but apart from this there probably are not many songs that could not be left out on a retrospective collection. I would probably also include "Tank" for the fine keyboard line and the pretty catchy "Death and Night and Blood".
All in all, a slightly disappointing album.
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Graeme2 06/18/2022 21:02
Wasn't over fussed on this when I picked it up in my punk fascination faze as a teenager but now I think it's just about as good as anything they did. I definitely like it now better than Heroes album. It's a little challenging, punk, post punk & kind of proggy in a way all mixed together. Still with their wonderful sense of melody. As my appreciation of their other albums fades slightly, this only grows.
Not nearly as good as their first two albums but still decent.
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