Medazzaland
by Duran Duran
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Duran Duran bestography
Medazzaland is ranked 16th best out of 24 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 553 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,110.
(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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Medazzaland track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Medazzaland rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 93 Music Albums of 1997 | 91/93 | 0 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (63), #0201-0300 | 63/100 | - |
| 2025 | paladisiac | 1990s 65rating (63.46-63), #001-100* | 9/40 | - |
| 2025 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 55/100 | 2 |
| 2021 | mlgprounicorn | Top 89 Music Albums of 1997 | 71/89 | 1 |
| 2020 | paladisiac | ranking albums: duran duran | 9/11 | - |
| 2015 | hi6hw4y | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 19/40 | - |
| 2014 | hazardlube | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 40/40 | - |
| 2014 | nf0603 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 87/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 10 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 8 | |||
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Medazzaland ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/15/2026 14:52 | Cyrax | 1,837 | 61/100 |
| ! | 11/04/2025 13:04 | LammyTS1 | 1,066 | 59/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2025 16:17 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 02/22/2025 15:29 | Derfel73 | 20 | 100/100 |
| ! | 11/20/2024 00:48 | Cherrycolalover | 120 | 83/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.1/100, a mean average of 61.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 61.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.3.
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Very underrated album
very experimental, very diverse
but did not sit well with their ususal audience and unfortunately did not break into any new ones
love out of my mind, big band and of course Electric Barbarella
paladisiac 06/27/2017 16:33 | #193299
Their self-titled wedding album marked the beginning of a new era for Duran Duran. Their 80s output was geared toward a marketable popularity all fancy, sparkly, fashionably stylish and ready-made for radio. Their self-titled released cooled the jets a bit on style replacing it with a more sincere approach to songwriting. That paid off with haunting numbers like "ordinary world" and "come undone", and after a covers album side-step, Duran Duran continued their more serious musical endeavors geared more towards artful creativity than bombastic popularity on "Medazzaland".
"Medazzaland", LeBon's drug trip, has its own haunting masterpiece "Out Of My Mind" embedded amidst a couple numbers reminiscent of "too much information" and dedications to Michael Hutchence (just before he committed suicide) and Kurt Cobain (after he committed suicide, of course). The entire effort is only tripped up from being another solid album in their canon by the opening, almost-spoken-word track with Nick Rhodes on lead vocals.
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