3 (studio album)
by Violent Femmes
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3 is ranked 4th best out of 13 albums by Violent Femmes on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Violent Femmes is Violent Femmes which is ranked number 186 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,053.
(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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3 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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3 ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/28/2025 20:52 |  Kingturtle | 7,441 | 73/100 |
| ! | 10/12/2025 07:02 |  MadhattanJack | 5,395 | 65/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2025 00:00 | asimpkins | 2,865 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/29/2025 15:40 |  DriftingOrpheus | 717 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/26/2025 06:21 | culwin | 1,306 | 75/100 |
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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 67.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Brad1770 08/27/2022 01:43 | #288949
‘3’ is oddly enough album number 4 and is purely one for the VF aficionado’s I’d fully recommend skipping this one and going straight to 1991’s excellent ‘Why Do Birds Sing?’
junodog4 11/21/2016 00:59 | #178817
Probably the least interesting of their 80s work... but Lies is great.
hoyquarlow 11/23/2015 04:31 | #153331
I never got into that album much...sadly it was pretty much over for the Femmes with and after this album. They're trying more classic, mature approach that doesn't work very well. Songs are kinda dull... But it's the Femmes anyway, it can never be that much bad.
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