Empty Glass
by Pete Townshend

Album
Empty Glass by Pete Townshend
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-04-14
Overall rank: 3,438th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 163 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (68th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (504th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,438th)

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Pete Townshend bestography

Empty Glass is ranked as the best album by Pete Townshend.

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Empty Glass rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,438th | 1980s rank: 504th | 1980 rank: 68th  Overall chart history
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Empty Glass ratings

Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 163 votes)
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 !		09/17/2026 23:11 traistboar  Ratings distribution  1,80279/100
 
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 !		06/01/2026 18:42 davidhuret  Ratings distribution  2,06276/100

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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.


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Empty Glass comments

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From 02/22/2011 22:24 | #18673 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This is my fav. It has it all, love, pain, strife, anger, joy and hope. It's been a great pleasure to listen to Pete's best and rediscover this periodically throughout my adulthood
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From 10/18/2016 05:00 | #177069 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Good except for my love which is to much like pop music for me.
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Highlights: I Am An Animal, Let My Love Open The Door, Gonna Get Ya
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From 01/11/2024 08:51 | #301075
I do not especially like this. (Edited)
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