Buy (studio album) by James Chance & The Contortions
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Buy is ranked as the best album by James Chance & The Contortions.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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  | 11/05/2024 15:04 | BorderFreeAndrew | | 75/100 |
55/100 | 10/06/2024 23:30 |  EyeKanFly | | 66/100 |
80/100 | 06/20/2024 00:52 |  AlvaroIesus | | 73/100 |
80/100 | 06/19/2024 13:03 | LosWochos | | 75/100 |
80/100 | 06/04/2024 08:29 | juanr1096 | | 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 75.9/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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Very frenetic punk with a discordant sax wailing in free form
Combining the cocophonous syncopations of Beefheart, the free-form spastic rhythms of Albert Ayler and the funky dance beats of James Brown, Chance creates a new form of destructured dissonant music for the new wave generation every bit as daring and innovative as the Pop Group and Rip Rig And Panic.
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