The Flat Earth (studio album)
by Thomas Dolby

The Flat Earth by Thomas Dolby
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 5,669th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 50 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (91st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (832nd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,669th)
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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 4532 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 310.

Thomas Dolby album bestography « Higher ranked (4,532nd)
The Golden Age Of Wireless
This album (5,669th)
The Flat Earth
Lower ranked (9,068th) »
Aliens Ate My Buick

(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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The Flat Earth track list

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73/100 (from 50 votes)
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11/16/2024 02:13 PapaShiz86  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 10,61679/100
 
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03/28/2024 18:55 LosWochos  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 46,59375/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.

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75/100
From 07/22/2016 19:54
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%...
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From 04/13/2016 11:24
A great record by a very underrated artist.
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From 04/04/2015 22:22
No sophomore jinx here.... Talent laden, sophisticated songs.
Solid album.
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From 08/10/2014 13:57
much underrated artist - and this is his best album
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