Yellow Moon
by The Neville Brothers
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Yellow Moon is ranked as the best album by The Neville Brothers.
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Yellow Moon track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Yellow Moon rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2101-2200 | 73/100 | - |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 62/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 87 Music Albums of 1989 | 18/87 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1989 | 100/100 | - |
| 2026 | Romanelli | Top 80 Music Albums of 1989 | 64/80 | 1 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 52/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 35/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Dylan covers 4ab:US (Major Artists continued) | 12/99 | - |
| 2026 | TastyandTemptin | Top 47 Music Albums of 1989 | 34/47 | 1 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 80/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 68 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 183 | |||
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Yellow Moon ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/27/2026 18:29 | matterhornrider | 5,178 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2026 08:38 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,887 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/16/2026 00:21 | TastyandTemptin | 3,182 | 72/100 |
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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 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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Yellow Moon forum mentions
Romanelli 06/06/2023 02:05 in What album are you listening to right now?Yellow Moon comments
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Romanelli TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/26/2011 15:31 | #31417 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
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.
Eastwood 12/06/2014 14:53 | #128854 | TOP COMMENT
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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
TheDude85 10/03/2020 21:18 | #258953 | TOP COMMENT
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Atmospheric production by Daniel Lanois adds to the spiritual ambiance of this stellar Neville Brothers album.
This is a really good record. The Neville Brothers at their peak.
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