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Alabama
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.7083
Alabama Album Rankings
1
RCA/Legacy's 2005 double-disc releaseEssential Alabamashould not be confused with RCA's 1998 single-disc releaseThe Essential Alabama, which may have had the same title but boasted a different track l
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Highlighted by the perennial "Christmas in Dixie,"Alabama Christmasis a collection of holiday tunes counting among one of Alabama's strongest records, seasonal or otherwise; although at times the mate
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3
On Alabama's second album,Feels So Right, you can hear the band becoming comfortable with their sound and finding their niche.
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4
This is their best effort. The group hadn't quite fallen into any formulas, and as a result, they cover the stylistic gamut pretty well.
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5
A sizeable chunk of the album contains what is by far some of the best material this group has done in ages.
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6
The title track and "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" make this entertaining but slightly formulaic album worth pursuing.
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7
Most of Alabama's albums are best rated on the strength of their singles.
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8
Even though the title should be taken with a grain of salt -- an enormous number of these 44 songs did reach number one, but a handful only peaked at two or three -- there's no denying that For the R
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9
There's some pleasant uptempo stuff here ("She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl," "Say I"), but only one really great song: "It Works" takes a first line filled with foreboding ("He rattles his glass/She get
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11
By 1990, Alabama had things down so solidly that half the songs on the group's albums would make hit singles.
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12
As its title suggests, Just Us is occasionally autobiographical.
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14
Going back to their 1980 debut , Randy Owens and Alabama have had better than 40 chart-topping hits, the most by any group in any musical genre, and they're are among the top 10 best-selling groups o
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15
A bit of refreshing Southern air, coming after a few years of flat albums.
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16
So much happened between Alabama's arrival on the scene and the country boom of the early '90s that by the time the band released American Pride, they were among the genre's aging veterans.
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18
The quality of Alabama's albums relates directly to how well their passion for nostalgia and sentimentality translates into real emotion.
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20
Although it isn't a definitive compilation, Alabama's Super Hits is an enjoyable sampler, containing several of the group's greatest hits and best-known songs.
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22
At six minutes, 25 seconds, "My Home's In Alabama" is intended to be the band's "Free Bird," though it sounds more like a softer Marshall Tucker Band .
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30
Even worse than the 1988 live album.
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31
This is was the first album on which Alabama dropped the image of the Confederate flag (it returned briefly a year later on Roll On ).
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40
Alabama's music has always relied on nostalgia, but rarely with such refreshing results as on this album, which incorporates elements of beach-music soul.
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44
Ultimate Alabama: 20 #1 Hits covers the band's most commercially successful tracks spanning 1980 through 2000 including "Mountain Music," "Down Home," "Jukebox in My Mind," "Southern Star," and "Ther
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