Ghost In The Machine
by The Police

Ghost In The Machine by The Police
Year: 1981
Release date: 1981-10-02
Overall rank: 978th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 539 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1981 (11th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (152nd)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (978th)

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The Police bestography

Ghost In The Machine is ranked 4th best out of 14 albums by The Police on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Police is Synchronicity which is ranked number 300 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,533.

The Police album bestography « Higher ranked (748th)
Outlandos D'Amour
This album (978th)
Ghost In The Machine
Lower ranked (1,103rd) »
Zenyatta Mondatta

(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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Ghost In The Machine track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 978th | 1980s rank: 152nd | 1981 rank: 11th

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Ghost In The Machine ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 539 votes)
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90/100
 
06/02/2026 17:22 bcole19  Ratings distribution  63089/100
 
90/100
 
05/18/2026 00:23 CjHubb117  Ratings distribution  29289/100
 
70/100
 
04/24/2026 14:52 Pavloss  Ratings distribution  48850/100
 
80/100
 
03/26/2026 15:19 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  23,02469/100
 
75/100
 
03/13/2026 19:42 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,64270/100

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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.

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65/100
From 02/11/2024 12:42 | #301905
The first 3 tracks are stand out. Invisible Sun is the best thing they've done an excellent track. There are some mediocre songs in the middle but the album finishes well.
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75/100
From 02/06/2024 12:20 | #301757
I thing that this album has only one standout, The rest are nice but quite forgettable within the non-Police fans aural spectrum. The playing is excellent throughout, but some of the finesse and dynamic definiton from Zenayatta is missing.
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75/100
From 08/29/2022 13:01 | #288999
They try some new ideas here and the overall effect is not very bad, I just don't really like The Police albums, only hit songs.
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65/100
From 06/26/2020 00:22 | #254524
The first 5 songs are pretty good, it gets really annoying after that; too brassy, loud, and bombastic with not enough substance to back it up.
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85/100
From 04/03/2020 17:52 | #249478
Has anyone noticed, the three symbols are their heads? Misunderstood album. It is a dark, serious, album, other than "Everything she does is magic". I love "Darkness", no one else seems to.
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80/100
From 08/01/2019 22:07 | #240649
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80/100
From 07/25/2019 20:01 | #240371
Uma bela pegada pop esconde a complexidade de suas músicas. Muito bom!
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70/100
From 02/17/2018 14:39 | #208550
"Ghost in the machine" è un disco riuscito, dinamico, con ottime canzoni, che magari non indica nuove vie per i Police ma almeno non sembra non andare da nessuna parte, come invece era accaduto per "Zenyatta mondatta"
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From 11/21/2016 21:47 | #178859
Favoritas: Demolition Man, Every Little Thing She Does Is MAgic, Spirits In The Material World, Invisible Sun
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90/100
From 06/18/2016 10:23 | #169043
my favorite police-album,
invisible Sun is their best song ever
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