For Lack Of A Better Name
by deadmau5
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The best album by Joel Thomas Zimmerman is For Lack Of A Better Name which is ranked number 6333 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 210.
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For Lack Of A Better Name track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/14/2026 20:04 | FrancK | 525 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/05/2025 20:11 | PapaShiz86 | 11,564 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/06/2025 19:56 | Hyggevinyl | 4,441 | 72/100 |
| ! | 01/31/2025 20:06 | jnmayles | 2,261 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2024 02:17 | juanr1096 | 6,203 | 78/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.8/100, a mean average of 68.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.
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DeusExMackia 11/08/2016 12:08 | #178098 | TOP COMMENT
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Zimmerman's best venture into house music to date. Big hitting dance songs balanced out by more experimental, ambient ones like Soma and brought together fantastically at the end with Strobe.
Certainly easy to see how people find this boring, and they're right to see the album that way. But look past the inevitable repetitiveness of this genre and what you have is one of the best creative explorations of house music ever.
souplipton 06/10/2016 03:56 | #168346 | TOP COMMENT
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For Lack of a Better Name built on Random Album Title's sound, and features some killer tracks. "FML" & both variation of "Ghosts" are highlights, but the closing track is the album's peak. "Strobe" is the song that mau5 should be best remembered for, as its build is one of the best in music, all of music, taking up most of the tracks considerable length to reach its climax. Great song on a great album.
I can see why some have gotten a little tired of Deadmau5, but this album is definitely proof that he's released some great stuff. Strobe is the defining electronic track of 2009 and definitely one of the best electronic songs of all time.
Start from the track 'bot', close your eyes and imagine you're in a club and everybody's dancing. You'll feel awesome!
I kinda feel like 'ghosts 'n' stuff' ruins it, but that track got me into his music (like when I was 13 or so), so I guess it isn't such a problem.
Best track: 'strobe'... of course.
OKC1 06/26/2014 17:16 | #115353
Underrated. Strobe is Joel's Best song
Woozz 07/18/2013 05:55 | #81783 | TOP COMMENT
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Not really my favorite album from Deadmau5, but I think "Strobe" is really a beautiful song, and saves it all.
Ghosts n stuff is certainly the stand out track. Nothing special.
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