Harry (studio album) by Harry Nilsson
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Harry is ranked 5th best out of 25 albums by Harry Nilsson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Harry Nilsson is Nilsson Schmilsson which is ranked number 1415 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,233.
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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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80/100  | 11/16/2024 03:27 | davidleewrong | | 81/100 |
90/100 | 10/17/2024 00:54 | lanadeleswift | | 87/100 |
80/100 | 04/10/2024 01:07 | PapaShiz86 | | 79/100 |
65/100 | 01/22/2024 21:58 |  paladisiac | | 65/100 |
75/100 | 03/12/2023 08:02 |  Jboy56 | | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.3.
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Mercury 10/19/2017 20:17
This album is pretty glorious. I mean, every melody and every line is so gosh darn carefully chosen and executed. The album just glimmers with pop perfection. Right from the brilliant opening track "The Puppy Song" with its exdellent bassline, its touching and humorous lyrics which any dog lover will love, its spot on vocal delivery, etc. Its a great great opener. This winning streak continues straight through to the end, as this album is just packed with 2-4 minute pop gems, many of which are Nilsson originals and a good chunk are genius covers of peers such as The Beatles and Randy Newman, etc.
Obviously, Nilsson didn't stop with this album, as he released 5 classic albums between 69-71. And the pitch perfect cover of "Simon Smith and the Amazing dancing bear" was a great teaser for the 1970 album of Nilsson's great take on Randy Newman originals. Anyway, I'm just saying things at this point and losing all structured thought. Apologies.
Other brilliant songs along with the opener and closer, are the meloncholic and dreamy "Open Your Window", the definitive version (from what I've yet heard) of the great Jerry Jeff Walker song "Mr. Bojangles", the Beatles cover "Mother Nature's song", "City Life", "Mournin' Glory Song", etc are all great.
This is really great album. I prefer the more all over the place, uninhibited side of Nilsson which he unleashed in about '71. But as far as a stately, nuanced, beautiful, perfectly structured set of singer/songwriter gems, this album is about as good as it gets. For any fans of The Beatles or just nice, dreamy pop, this is a must listen.
Rating: 8.7/10
sssvnnn 08/02/2016 09:14
Lovely songs and good strings arrangements. I think it still sounds good.
A great record by one of the best voices of his generation.
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