Upstairs At Eric's (studio album)
by Yazoo
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Upstairs At Eric's is ranked as the best album by Yazoo.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 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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| ! | 11/13/2025 16:04 | markl73 | 496 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:24 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 06/18/2025 19:12 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2025 12:39 |  Tamthebam | 22,899 | 69/100 |
| ! | 02/14/2025 05:58 | stangetzaway | 2,133 | 85/100 |
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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 74.5/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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A nearly perfect album, with the exception of "I Before E Except After C", which is... well, let's just ignore that. Pretend it never happened. Also, the North American replacement of "Tuesday" (which is still a good song) with "Situation" (a great song) is an improvement that again, makes this near perfection. Just leave that 1 track off your playlist, you know the one.
TheDude85 06/27/2019 15:09 | #238456
A tremendous debut for synth-pop duo Yaz featuring Vince Clarke (formerly of Depeche Mode) and soulful singer Alison Moyet. "Don't Go" "Situation" and "Only You" are still dancefloor classics, heard in numerous re-mixes long into the 2010s. Moyet's vocals proved to be the human element needed to breathe life into Clarke's mechanical musical textures. He found a perfect vocal male sound alike in his next project Erasure.
ExTeaSea 05/31/2019 04:15 | #236936
This album is a spectacular synth pop 80s album. Hell of a voice!
OK, maybe it was my more up-beat sensibility at the time (which hasn't really changed that much in the thirty-odd years since - a killer riff in an upbeat pop song is still irresistible), but I think this album is a classic and one of my all-time favourites. Basic synth pop of its time but the bare Vince & Allison combo I found to be enchanting and every track lives with me to this day!
Its definetely better Depeche Mode than Depeche Mode in 1982.
timtooky 03/31/2014 21:19 | #108213
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paladisiac 11/06/2013 17:52 | #90963
Good synthpop, but nothing spectacular. My rating is reflective of the cersion without "i before e" but including "the other side of love" (65) and "situation" (75).
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