Ultimate Success Today
by Protomartyr

Album
Ultimate Success Today by Protomartyr
Year: 2020
Release date: 2020-07-17
Overall rank: 3,790th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 121 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2020 (52nd)
Award Top albums of of the 2020s (250th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,790th)

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Protomartyr bestography

Ultimate Success Today is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Protomartyr on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Protomartyr is Relatives In Descent which is ranked number 2335 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 697.

Protomartyr album bestography « Higher ranked (2,335th)
Relatives In Descent This album (3,790th)
Ultimate Success Today Lower ranked (4,071st) »
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Ultimate Success Today rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,790th | 2020s rank: 250th | 2020 rank: 52nd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 121 votes)
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 !		08/12/2026 17:31 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,67970/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.


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From BestEverAlbums 07/14/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5373): By desh79
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 by ) 1. (2020) 2. (2020) 3. by (2020) 4. by (2020) 5. by (2020) 6. by (2020) 7. by (2020) 8. (2020) 9. by (2020) 10. (2020) 11. by (2020) 12. by (2020) 13. (2020) 14. by (2020) 15. by (2020) 16. by by by (2020) 19. by by (2020) 21. by (2020) 22.…”
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From Mercury 07/02/2022 20:11 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!
“recent listening and relistening (last couple weeks, 0-5 scale and the ranges are basically idk how high or low I could see this going depending on how I’m looking at it.) 77 Live Les Rallizes Dénudés/1991/3.7-4ish. It's wildly explorative and ahead of its time. Also 90+ minutes and drags a bit.…”
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From Mercury 01/04/2021 20:21 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
“1. This was the first time I heard this band. I really like it. Very intense, like, really very intense at times. Cold, harsh, post punk guitar riffs, with intense drumming, a vocalist who sounds just fucking tired of it all, incredible transitions and builds, and some of the cooler rock songs I've…”
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From 04/01/2021 15:23 | #268062 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Alright. I can tell the musicians are talented but it doesn't seem like too much thought was put into these. Just seems like some talented musicians improvising until they got some decent sounding songs. It comes off as stale to me.
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From 12/27/2020 22:01 | #263310 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I always like and listen to Protomartyr records, waiting for them to blow me away. This is the one that has come the closest. I'm all for the moodiness and intensity here. Definitely one of the more underrated records of 2020. (Edited)
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From 09/08/2020 12:05 | #257897 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Some basic ideas that never became fully formed songs. Not my thing
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From 07/17/2020 19:51 | #255742 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Such a cool band. This album doesn't disappoint. First track is one of those slow building songs which plays as a nice ramp up to their killer single Processed by the Boys. This release is just as cool as their older stuff but with a continuous spooky wind instrument type thing going on throughout. Dig it so much! (Edited)
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