Jeopardy
by The Sound

Jeopardy by The Sound
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-11-00
Overall rank: 2,040th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 161 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (41st)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (307th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,040th)

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The Sound bestography

Jeopardy is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by The Sound on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Sound is From The Lion's Mouth which is ranked number 1707 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,000.

The Sound album bestography « Higher ranked (1,707th)
From The Lion's Mouth
This album (2,040th)
Jeopardy
Lower ranked (9,443rd) »
All Fall Down

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Jeopardy rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,040th | 1980s rank: 307th | 1980 rank: 41st  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).

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Jeopardy ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 161 votes)
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07/23/2026 17:07 RasmV  Ratings distribution  2,54873/100
 
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01/23/2026 19:49 Untitled  Ratings distribution  1,74877/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.


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Rating:  
85/100
Criminally underrated. This album sits with the top post punk releases of the beginning of the 80s.
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90/100
Very good post-punkband. IMHO this first album is better than From the Lion's Mouth. Don't understand that "I can't escape myself" never was a hit, it should have been.
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Rating:  
70/100
From 10/17/2016 23:57 | #177042
Great album back in the day, still sounds great! Adrian Borland massive loss!!
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Decent Joy Division inspired yet more danceable post-punk that likely served as the template for the Killers' Hot fuzz & Franz Ferdinand's s/t albums. Unfortunately, it's rather inconsistent and is most enjoyable on the first couple of spins.
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Rating:  
90/100
One of the best post-punk album!
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From 06/15/2014 01:41 | #114496
Extremely well done Joy Division inspired yet more danceable post-punk that likely served as the template for the Killers' Hot fuzz & Franz Ferdinand's s/t albums.
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Rating:  
25/100
From 05/09/2014 20:20 | #111312
listening to this you would have been really cool in the early 80s. without the vogue - it's just the way-to-the-lions-mouth-record.
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Rating:  
95/100
A vital post-punk album !
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