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Richard Thompson
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.9203
Richard Thompson Album Rankings
1
I doubt I'll ever create great art. There is virtually no chance that I will go down in music history as having made the album of the decade. You see, I'm happily married.
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2
Richard & Linda Thompson's final album together, 1982'sShoot Out the Lights, was widely seen as a document of their collapsing relationship, despite the fact that both of them strongly denied that was
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3
Just how lost Richard Thompson was underMitchell FroomandTchad Blake's direction during the '90s is made clear byMock Tudor, the brilliant sequel to the botchedYou? Me? Us?Producers/engineersTom Rothr
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4
The writing is just as rueful, darkly romantic, and exuberant as it's ever been
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5
While Richard Thompson's devotees will tell you the man is a triple-threat genius -- passionate vocalist, compelling songwriter, and sterling guitarist -- even his most loyal supporters will concede t
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6
Richard Thompson's superb new album,Mirror Blue, boasts no bold forays or shocking twists, only the same fervid but stringently unsentimental writing and musicianship that has always distinguished thi
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7
For a singer/songwriter and guitarist long hailed as a great folk-rock romanticist, Richard Thompson actually prefers the company of misery. There are few truly happy endings in his extensive catalog.
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8
May just be the most concise and potent distillation of Thompson's art to date
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9
It was 40 years ago this week that Richard Thompson first played with Fairport Convention, and their most celebrated surviving former member is still in rousing, bitter form.
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10
Fans and critics alike seemed to have a difficult time getting a handle on Thompson's new direction, which, for the most part, eschews the electric guitar that had been an integral part of the British
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11
Anyone still hoping for one essential, comprehensive Richard Thompson anthology is probably missing the point of Thompson's career.
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12
After 30-plus years as a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter and guitarist, Live from Austin, TX is Richard Thompson's first widely available live recording.
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13
Most noticeable on Thompson's first album for Capitol Records is the production work of Mitchell Froom--who gives the guitarist a warmth and bass presence that hadn't been displayed on his past recor
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14
Richard Thompson's second Polydor album contained some terrific and varied songs, from the raucous "A Bone Through Her Nose" to the mournful "Missie How You Let Me Down" and "Al Bowlly's In Heaven.
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24
Small Town Romance was compiled from three warts-and-all live recordings (originally produced for radio broadcast) of Richard Thompson performing solo acoustic in New York City in 1982.
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30
If Richard Thompson were a tree, he'd be a stately elm--authoritative, regal, classic, the perfect compliment to a home in the suburbs.
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33
While some listeners have expressed mixed degrees of enthusiasm with Richard Thompson's often down-beat work as a songwriter and his sometimes craggy vocals, no one has ever argued his gifts as an in
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