Dirk Wears White Sox
by Adam And The Ants
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Dirk Wears White Sox is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by Adam And The Ants on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Adam And The Ants is Kings Of The Wild Frontier which is ranked number 2360 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 686.
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Dirk Wears White Sox track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/21/2026 00:21 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,287 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 07:30 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 11/16/2025 17:30 |  an-outlaw | 525 | 74/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2025 06:59 |  cestuneblague | 8,244 | 80/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2025 21:58 | culwin | 1,539 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.9/100, a mean average of 70.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.
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Not my favorite Ants album but Car Trouble, Digital Tenderness, Never Trust a Man and Animals and Men are great tunes that I still enjoy today.
For all the success that Adam Ant eventually had it's sometimes forgotten that before that success, his band and himself, Adam and the antz, released a new wave/punk classic in, Dirk wears white sox. It's a dark and brooding masterpiece. Car trouble, is excellent, one of Ant's greatest songs. Elsewhere there's, digital tenderness, nine plan failed, and, Catholic day, all brilliant. The influence of this album would be felt later on down the line, especially with Blur, who some of the songs here sound uncannily like. Dirk wears white sox, is an underrated record, it needs some rediscovery.
This album is still a fun listen. It sounds bit dated now but I can't help myself.
Of the three Ants albums this is the one I still listen to, Family Of Noise being the best track.
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