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Albums like Standards, Vol. 2 1985
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Standards, Vol. 2
Albums closest to Standards, Vol. 2
- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane 1963Also inward, direct and sincere
- Come Away With Me 2002Also inward, sincere and conventional
- Metaphorical Music 2003Also inward, direct and sincere
- When I Look in Your Eyes 1999Also inward, direct and sincere
- Genius Loves Company 2004Also inward, sincere and direct
- Geography 2018Also inward, direct and sincere
- Home Again 2012Also inward, sincere and conventional
- Chet Baker Sings 1954Also inward, sincere and direct
- Careless Love 2004Also inward, conventional and sincere
- Ah Via Musicom 1990Also inward, direct and sincere
The same feel, in other forms
Films
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 2019Also character-led, classical in form and earnest
84 Charing Cross Road 1987Also character-led, intimate and resolved
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost 2025Also character-led, classical in form and earnest
Books
Mansfield Park 1814Also classical in form, resolved and earnest
Silas Marner 1800Also resolved, classical in form and earnest
Tender at the bone 1998Also character-led and classical in form
Series
The Wonder Years 1988Also character-led
Pride and Prejudice 1995Also classical in form, resolved and earnest
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling 2018Also character-led, earnest and contemplative
Games
The Day I Became a Bird 2026Also character-led, earnest and resolved
The Master's Pupil 2023Also earnest and contemplative
Beeswing 2014Also character-led, earnest and contemplative
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