Let Love In
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds bestography
Let Love In is ranked 3rd best out of 30 albums by Nick Cave on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nick Cave is Skeleton Tree which is ranked number 369 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,467.
(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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Let Love In track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Let Love In rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Kalos | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 54/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  Charade | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 86/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  Larcx13 | Top 72 Music Albums of 1994 | 18/72 | 4 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 83/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | cobbo95 | Top 92 Greatest Music Albums | 62/92 | 33 |
| 2026 |  pedro1976 | Top 30 Music Albums of 1994 | 12/30 | 3 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 41/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 77/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1994 | 20/20 | 0 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 50 Music Albums of 1994 | 4/50 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 495 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,297 | |||
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Let Love In ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/03/2026 01:56 | bkogz | 938 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/28/2026 20:54 | luukvdschepop | 793 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/04/2026 18:19 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.8/100, a mean average of 80.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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Let Love In forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/24/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5445): By MW19704U BestEverAlbums 09/22/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5443): By javicho07Let Love In comments
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meccalecca TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/05/2014 01:30 | #110828 | TOP COMMENT
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A deranged maniac is hitting on you at the bar. His words sound profound, but also sinister. What’s your next move? (Edited)
Daydreamer 02/13/2017 17:13 | #185507 | TOP COMMENT
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Can't help but feel this is hugely underrated. One of Cave's best album which contains all of the elements that make him great.
This and many more Bad Seeds albums should at least be in the top 200 and not lurking around 700.
badseed 04/13/2015 03:46 | #139414 | TOP COMMENT
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Perhaps the band's trademark album. Never before (and arguably never again) have they seemed more confident. It has hard rocking songs like "Janglin' Jack" and "Thirsty Dog" and slower jams like "Nobody's Baby Now" and "Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore," and nothing seems out of place. From beginning to end, you can't miss this one.
Favorite tracks: "Do You Love Me?", "Red Right Hand," "Lay Me Low", "Loverman"
buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/11/2020 19:06 | #259195 | TOP COMMENT
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I've known about Nick Cave for a long time, and didn't think too much about him until I saw an essay he wrote about the role of duende in rock music. He writes, "All love songs must contain duende. For the love song is never truly happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain. Those songs that speak of love without having within in their lines an ache or a sigh are not love songs at all but rather Hate Songs disguised as love songs, and are not to be trusted. These songs deny us our humanness and our God-given right to be sad and the air-waves are littered with them. The love song must resonate with the susurration of sorrow, the tintinnabulation of grief. The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil – the enduring metaphor of Christ crucified between two criminals comes to mind here – so within the fabric of the love song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering." Damn if that isn't a perfect encapsulation of what makes Let Love In such a great album: the spaces in between that allow the darkness to intertwine with the beauty of loving another person. Cave has been a great artist for a very long time, but Let Love In is the most fully realized vision of his brooding rock and roll career. (Edited)
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