Borderline
by Asylum Party

Borderline by Asylum Party
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 7,137th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 26 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (100th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,023rd)
Award Best albums of all time (7,137th)

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Borderline is ranked as the best album by Asylum Party.

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Borderline track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 7,137th | 1980s rank: 1,023rd | 1989 rank: 100th

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72/100 (from 26 votes)
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70/100
 
10/12/2025 07:00 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  5,61265/100
 
90/100
 
07/06/2025 12:41 Cheboygan74  Ratings distribution  1,28952/100
 
80/100
 
11/28/2023 18:57 JMGL95  Ratings distribution  2,42581/100
 
85/100
 
12/17/2022 17:56 seb7  Ratings distribution  1,52080/100
 
85/100
 
07/20/2022 13:39 Jibb  Ratings distribution  1,39282/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.1/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.

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70/100
From 10/12/2025 06:53 | #311330
Often referred to as a "coldwave" band because their lead singer and guitarist, Philippe Planchon, sounded like he was about to fall asleep on many of their recordings, this French group actually had some really good songs and a cool (not necessarily "cold") post-punk/wave sound. And to be fair, they did occasionally get a little "droney," which I had thought was highly frowned upon in France... Anyway, this is almost certainly the best of their three albums. A list of similar bands would probably include Sad Lovers and Giants, the Lucy Show, early New Order, Felt, maybe Xymox or even the Comsat Angels. But really, who would make such a list, other than me, just now? Nobody, that's who.
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75/100
From 04/13/2013 22:00 | #72924
I don't know who recommended this to me, or why. It's not bad, but it isn't really my thing. Also I think the original record only had the first eight tracks on it.
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95/100
From 12/02/2012 21:54 | #56546
Such a great album
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