One For The Road
by The Kinks
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The Kinks bestography
One For The Road is ranked 14th best out of 62 albums by The Kinks on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Kinks is The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society which is ranked number 149 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,040.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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One For The Road track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
One For The Road rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 59/100 | 8 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2101-2200 | 55/100 | - |
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 16 Music Albums of 1980 | 9/16 | 3 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Best live albums | 12/51 | - |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 3/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | Top 37 Music Albums of 1980 | 35/37 | 0 |
| 2026 |  nitomano | Live Albums | 37/88 | - |
| 2026 |  Taka | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 14/100 | 17 |
| 2025 | Marswolf68 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2025 |  MetalMan67 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 54/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 39 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 130 | |||
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One For The Road ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/03/2026 19:25 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,672 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2026 21:41 | smithc4jc | 84 | 74/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 20:38 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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One For The Road forum mentions
Romanelli 03/25/2024 21:40 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Sacred Cow Romanelli 03/20/2023 13:25 in What album are you listening to right now? Romanelli 02/20/2023 18:02 in Albums You Added To Your Collection TodayOne For The Road comments
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Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/27/2016 03:17 | #177523 | TOP COMMENT
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This is quite possibly the greatest live album of all time. Every cut is worthwhile and actually adds something to the original studio cut. Once in a while, a live version becomes the definitive version over the studio version and that is the case for most of the cuts on this album. (Edited)
ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/02/2012 12:47 | #41386 | TOP COMMENT
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This was their biggest album (achieving 1 million sales)and quite the surprised for Arista records. At this point in their career, there wasn't a reason to think that this album would be as big as it turned out to be...usually live albums don't fare as well as their studio counterpart especially since they were not a very big group in the US.
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