Bring The Family
by John Hiatt
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John Hiatt bestography
Bring The Family is ranked as the best album by John Hiatt.
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Bring The Family track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Bring The Family rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | machiaj | Top 40 Music Albums of the 1980s | 7/40 | 17 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 50 Music Albums of 1987 | 34/50 | 2 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 23/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 88/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1987 | 46/100 | - |
| 2026 | machiaj | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 43/100 | 55 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 74 Music Albums of 1987 | 28/74 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Rolling Stone 1987 Critics Best Album | 6/10 | - |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 85/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 123 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 410 | |||
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Bring The Family ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/10/2026 23:58 | Proto | 4,306 | 33/100 |
| ! | 12/22/2025 03:23 | zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2025 18:03 | Johnnyo | 9,840 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Bring The Family forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/15/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5436): By RiveraBring The Family comments
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This is a great album that led to a string of other albums that I listen too. "Tip Of My Tongue" is my favorite song on this album. The albums Stollen Moments and Slow Turning I have on CD, it's a hard to find his albums on vinyl. On album Stolen Moments track "Listening To Old Voices" is another favorite. (Edited)
A pretty much perfect album by a great artist. (Edited)
I agree with MEZ - John Hiatt is criminally underrated as an artist. This album features some of his finest work, and there isn't a throwaway track on here. Highly recommended!
Most of John Hiatts stuff is solid to very good. This album being very good. Very underrated artist imo. MEZ
Great CD. Getting Ry Cooder to play along was genius. Hard to single out songs 'cuz the whole record is strong. But I think "Memphis" and "Lipstick" are faves.
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