Boys For Pele (studio album)
by Tori Amos

Boys For Pele by Tori Amos
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 1,843rd   
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 256 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (32nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (332nd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,843rd)

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Tori Amos bestography

Boys For Pele is ranked 3rd best out of 29 albums by Tori Amos on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tori Amos is Little Earthquakes which is ranked number 594 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,878.

Tori Amos album bestography « Higher ranked (1,478th)
Under The Pink
This album (1,843rd)
Boys For Pele
Lower ranked (2,383rd) »
From The Choirgirl Hotel

(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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Boys For Pele track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Boys For Pele rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,843rd | 1990s rank: 332nd | 1996 rank: 32nd

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Boys For Pele ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 256 votes)
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12/09/2025 05:28 Kingturtle   7,44173/100
 
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12/05/2025 16:33 Araldo   1,46980/100
 
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07/22/2025 13:09 joewooley24   2,92580/100

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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 75.7/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.

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95/100
From 08/16/2021 04:30 | #272565
My fave tori album
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60/100
From 10/22/2018 15:57 | #223016
Reminds me of Joni Mitchell's 'Blue', another album I can't get into.
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95/100
From 09/24/2017 18:15 | #198674
Her best album
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Rating:  
90/100
From 10/10/2016 15:37 | #176655
Her best album. No more stupid distorted guitar arrangements everywhere doing absolutely nothing. No more pointless strings sections that try to make every song sound "friendlier". No more overdubs on Tori's voice covering her raw emotion just because mainstream audiences prefer clean vocals. This time Tori was given total control over the production and format of her songs and album. She discarded what was not necessary and kept what's really valuable. This is Tori Amos as she really wanted to be heard.
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70/100
From 08/09/2016 02:40 | #172536
Lyrically inscrutable. Melodically frustrating.

A work of art regardless.

...sigh.
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85/100
From 07/28/2016 20:10 | #171913
Absorbing and challenging album from Tori Amos. Full of light and shade. A real grower.
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75/100
From 03/22/2016 19:24 | #162353
Very challenging lyrics to beautiful music.
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75/100
From 10/01/2013 21:03 | #87350
Best tracks: Hey Jupiter, Caught a Lite Sneeze, Horses.
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75/100
From 09/02/2012 05:24 | #49805
Great thoughts in the music, great music, but can’t list it as something that grasps me completely.
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85/100
From 06/03/2012 19:52 | #43701
My fav Amos album.
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