Gas Food Lodging
by Green On Red
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Green On Red bestography
Gas Food Lodging is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by Green On Red on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Green On Red is Gravity Talks which is ranked number 7545 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 171.
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Gas Food Lodging track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Gas Food Lodging rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 90 Music Albums of 1985 | 17/90 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 17 Music Albums of 1985 | 15/17 | 1 |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 15/100 | 17 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 63/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 45/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  NoisyBeast | Top Albums of 1985... #201-300 | 20/99 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 63/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1985 | 14/20 | 2 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 47 Music Albums of 1985 | 18/47 | 3 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1985 | 55/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 46 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 107 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/11/2025 10:34 | JamesMowbray | 5,724 | 69/100 |
| ! | 03/09/2025 13:42 | RemainInLight | 3,814 | 36/100 |
| ! | 01/19/2024 03:24 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,743 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/21/2022 04:16 | #281648
Think The Replacements meet The Gun Club and you’ve got GOR and this album. Its third album lucky for these West Coast wild boys via Arizona - they would never release a better album than ‘Gas Food Lodging’ nor better track than “Hair Of The Dog”
An album that I read so much about over the years before I finally heard it that it never quite could live up to the sound I'd imagined in my head. I'd read about it being a high point of Cowpunk which made me expect something more original than the Sticky Fingers era Stones that it sounds like to me. It's influence on bands that followed it had no doubt diluted it's impact by the time I heard it. All this isn't to say I don't like it, it's a good album with some solid songwriting. The riff running through Fading Away is a highlight, Sixteen Ways is good enough that arch Magpie Justine Frischmann ripped it off for Elastica's Waking Up and Hair of the Dog delivers on the promise that Cowpunk implies. The Drifter and Sea of Cortez sound like a band trying to split the atom (if the atom is Neil Young's Cortez the Killer) and ending up with 2 half atoms that are not quite as good as the original.
Gas Food Lodging is a long forgotten gem of the gold stream that was 80s alternative rock. The group is heavily influenced by Neil Young and Crazy Horse with a nice punk edge and a dash of psychedelica. It's excellent from start to finish, with solid songs and pleasurable performances.
Note that the the title track, absent here, finally surfaced as a 10" with The Drifter reprising on the B Side.
If you enjoyed this record I can't say I recommend anything further from the group. Aside from their follow-up EP "No Free Lunch," you would be more satisfied listening to similar cowpunk of the era. Check out The Silos, Long Ryders, Meat Puppets, Beat Farmers, Lone Justice and Dream Syndicate.
A Side: That's What Dreams
B Side: Sixteen Ways
Never in the league of other Paisley Underground bands like Dream Syndicate they were still a great live band and they produced some excellent studio albums.
This was their 4th and it's a great example of the bands' work.
Lead guitarist Chuck Prophet went on to make some outstanding solo albums which are well worth checking out (Edited)
One of the best 80s album!! country rock with influences of Neil Young and Bob dylan!
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