How Sad, How Lovely
by Connie Converse
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 60 Music Albums of 2009 | 15/60 | 4 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 68 Music Albums of 2009 | 54/68 | 1 |
| 2023 | nilescrane | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 17/40 | 43 |
| 2020 |  Jameth | Top 5 Music Albums of 2009 | 4/5 | 2 |
| 2015 | antisecurity | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 25/100 | 15 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 65 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/11/2025 03:03 |  MadhattanJack | 6,029 | 66/100 |
| ! | 07/22/2025 13:13 | joewooley24 | 2,995 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/10/2025 03:24 | lanadeleswift | 3,791 | 86/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 8.2.
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MadhattanJack 12/11/2025 03:03 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
baystateoftheart 03/08/2020 17:24 in Women's History Month Listening Project (Third Annual) Hayden 11/30/2017 08:44 in Around The World In 80 Or So DaysHow Sad, How Lovely comments
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MadhattanJack 12/11/2025 03:28 | #312089
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Elizabeth "Connie" Converse was a New York City-based folk singer-songwriter active during the 1950s and 60s. She didn't play live, but several of her songs were nevertheless recorded by an acquaintance, Gene Deitch, who was eventually invited to play some of them on WNYC Radio in 2004. Two listeners, Dan Dzula and David Herman, were impressed and began the process of collecting and compiling all the extant Converse recordings they could find into this album. All tracks consist of just Converse singing and accompanying herself on acoustic guitar (nylon-stringed) with no overdubs. Many are just conventional folk songs, including a few that may have been written for children, but there are also flashes of brilliance and incisiveness to be heard if you're paying attention. Anyway... in 1961 Converse moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in 1974, she disappeared from there after writing a "goodbye and don't look for me" letter, and apparently went "off the grid," never to be seen or heard from again. Her fate remains a complete mystery, but my own theory is that she got tired of hearing Iggy and the Stooges (also from Ann Arbor) practicing down the street at all hours of the night and moved to nearby Kalamazoo, since it has a funnier name. (Edited)
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