Yellow Moon
by The Neville Brothers

Yellow Moon by The Neville Brothers
Year: 1989
Release date: 1989-03-13
Overall rank: 7,095th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 56 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (92nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (1,002nd)
Award Best albums of all time (7,095th)

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Yellow Moon is ranked as the best album by The Neville Brothers.

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Yellow Moon rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,095th | 1980s rank: 1,002nd | 1989 rank: 92nd  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).
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2026MoondanceTop 100 Music Albums of 198962/1002
2026 TamthebamTop 100 Music Albums of 198985/1001
2026fabm0List 1989100/100 -
2026 RomanelliTop 80 Music Albums of 198964/801
2026PurpleHazelTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s52/10010
2026 RomanelliMy Overall Chart: 2101-220062/100 -
2026SkernsTop 86 Music Albums of 198918/864
2026TastyandTemptinTop 47 Music Albums of 198934/471
2026 Sandrof1969Top 15 Music Albums of 198911/152
2026MoondanceDylan covers 4ab:US (Major Artists continued)12/99 -
2026cicadelicQ magazine Recordings Of The Year 198926/50 -
2025JohnnyoBest Americana alums of all time by Udiscovermusic7/10 -
2025MaxStorm98Top 51 Music Albums of 198947/510
2025MoondanceDylan covers 1: top 100 Dylan cover songs12/100 -
2025Invader666Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s93/1002
2025 xo66Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s66/1007
2025stangetzawayTop 20 Music Albums of 198912/202
2025replacementlevelTop 50 Music Albums of 198912/504
2025skrapoelTop 52 Music Albums of 19898/524
2025mostlymorTop 100 Music Albums of 198930/1004
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 67
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 183
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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 56 votes)
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03/16/2026 00:21 TastyandTemptin  Ratings distribution  3,17672/100
 
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06/05/2025 13:31 replacementlevel  Ratings distribution  7,73970/100
 
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12/20/2024 15:58 davidleewrong  Ratings distribution  2,35781/100

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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.


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75/100
The Daniel Lanois influence inks through this album; much like it did on Dylan's contemporaneous 'Oh Mercy' album, also produced by Lanois. Both album have Willie Green on drums. I've included the cover of Dylan's 'With God On Our Side' on my top 100 Dylan covers chart. Apart from all that, I really like this album on its own terms.
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90/100
Atmospheric production by Daniel Lanois adds to the spiritual ambiance of this stellar Neville Brothers album.
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85/100
This is a really good record. The Neville Brothers at their peak.
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70/100
From 12/06/2014 14:53 | #128854
Average album. Best 10 songs average is 71,0/100 and the album can get average 70/100. Ok I'm not very fan of this kind of music anyway. Listened through until song 9 only. Best song is "Yellow moon" average 75/100.
Genre: New Orleans R&B, Soul, Funk
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Yellow Moon is a good, listenable record. "With God On Our Side" makes it worth having alone, but there are good songs, vocals and playing throughout. About as good as The Neville's get.
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