The Flat Earth
by Thomas Dolby
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Thomas Dolby bestography
The Flat Earth is ranked 2nd best out of 12 albums by Thomas Dolby on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Thomas Dolby is The Golden Age Of Wireless which is ranked number 4735 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 295.
(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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The Flat Earth track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Flat Earth rankings
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The Flat Earth ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/18/2026 18:21 |  Leonard | 6,511 | 70/100 | |
| 12/01/2025 19:54 | matterhornrider | 4,928 | 81/100 | |
| 11/12/2025 23:45 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 | |
| 11/16/2024 02:13 | PapaShiz86 | 11,102 | 79/100 | |
| 11/10/2024 10:40 |  videoheadcleaner | 12,227 | 85/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.
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Bloody Mulu.....ruins this album for me! Don't get me wrong I'm a big TD fan but that is the one song I just cannot hold any affinity for. The rest, all good stuff, just not quite up to album one for me because of that one track, and when an album is only 7 tracks long it does effect the overall score. Would have been 90%...
A great record by a very underrated artist.
No sophomore jinx here.... Talent laden, sophisticated songs.
Solid album.
Ottokar 08/10/2014 13:57 | #119154
much underrated artist - and this is his best album
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