Abandoned Luncheonette
by Daryl Hall & John Oates

Abandoned Luncheonette by Daryl Hall & John Oates
Year: 1973
Release date: 1973-11-03
Overall rank: 4,224th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 103 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1973 (78th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (710th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,224th)

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Abandoned Luncheonette is ranked as the best album by Daryl Hall & John Oates.

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Overall rank: 4,224th | 1970s rank: 710th | 1973 rank: 78th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 103 votes)
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5 days ago gmessian  Ratings distribution  34060/100
 
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03/16/2026 14:11 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,63273/100
 
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01/24/2026 18:46 2jbchandler  Ratings distribution  3374/100
 
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01/01/2026 10:29 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,58570/100
 
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12/14/2025 06:29 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,13433/100

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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.

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70/100
From 06/21/2025 00:33 | #309631
First half is pretty good, especially the stand-out "She's Gone". It loses me in the back half, though. It's still alright, for 1973. But yeah, it's just alright.
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From 05/18/2023 15:55 | #297061
This is a prime example of a balanced and well composed and entertaining soul /pop-rock album. Great
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75/100
From 10/02/2020 17:37 | #258928
Some great classics on this one! Rating (78.89)
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From 03/28/2019 02:49 | #234105
The album is not as bad as I'll make it sound but these are real issues.
The whole record sounds a like an white easy listening version of black soul.
It's a bipolar record where they try to do something sophisticated but also appeal to classy rich people by making it as inoffensive as it can be.
They try but they lack what Elton John has.
Also production of this record doesn't make any sense.
On a positive side, they got better as the years gone by and made some nice pop hits.
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90/100
From 01/09/2017 16:45 | #182098
Excellent album - every song a pop gem. Hall & Oates' best album.
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From 11/13/2016 22:10 | #178381
Outside of She's Gone I really don't care much for this album. Hall and Oates has some of my all time favorite songs, but they really don't have good albums
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