Big Thing
by Duran Duran

Big Thing by Duran Duran
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 11,558th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 56 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (164th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,617th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,558th)

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Duran Duran bestography

Big Thing is ranked 6th best out of 23 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 579 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,915.

Duran Duran album bestography « Higher ranked (8,024th)
Notorious
This album (11,558th)
Big Thing
Lower ranked (11,558th) »
Big Thing

(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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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 11,558th | 1980s rank: 1,617th | 1988 rank: 164th

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Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 56 votes)
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01/15/2026 19:30 MilesM78  Ratings distribution  190/100
 
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12/12/2025 14:38 Leonard  Ratings distribution  6,51470/100
 
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11/04/2025 02:19 Brandonjtg  Ratings distribution  1,92589/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.4/100, a mean average of 66.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.6.

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55/100
From 01/29/2016 21:17 | #158143
This album features three amazing singles
One of them being the hugely underrated and forgotten "Do you believe in shame" = A++
I Dont Want your Love = A
All She wants is = B+
It features a few more very good songs, then some dated filler songs and one unspeakably bad song (Drug)

However if you like DD and the mid/late 80's sound it is definitely worth a listen
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From 02/22/2014 04:20 | #103973
not bad
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