Bring The Family (studio album) by John Hiatt

Bring The Family by John Hiatt
Year: 1987
Overall rank: 4,229th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 102 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1987 (56th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (627th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,229th)
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Bring The Family is ranked as the best album by John Hiatt.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 102 votes)
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02/06/2025 09:32 cicadelic  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 8,94373/100
 
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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 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.

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95/100
From 05/12/2019 18:57
I agree with MEZ - John Hiatt is criminally underrated as an artist. This album features some of his finest work, and there isn't a throwaway track on here. Highly recommended!
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From 05/19/2015 22:48
Most of John Hiatts stuff is solid to very good. This album being very good. Very underrated artist imo. MEZ
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From 06/18/2012 21:56
Great CD. Getting Ry Cooder to play along was genius. Hard to single out songs 'cuz the whole record is strong. But I think "Memphis" and "Lipstick" are faves.
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90/100
From 01/03/2012 00:49
If not one of the best, certainly one of the most underappreciated and underrated songwriters of all time.
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