The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
(Compilation album)
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 12,779th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 61 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (200th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (2,025th)
Award Best albums of all time (12,779th)

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds bestography

The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds is ranked 20th best out of 30 albums by Nick Cave on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Nick Cave is Skeleton Tree which is ranked number 383 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,363.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album bestography « Higher ranked (7,676th)
Nocturama
This album (12,779th)
The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Lower ranked (17,150th) »
Live Seeds

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

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 12,779th | 1990s rank: 2,025th | 1998 rank: 200th

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Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 61 votes)
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04/08/2026 16:01 DrTchock97  Ratings distribution  73376/100
 
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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 81.0/100, a mean average of 80.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.

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From 02/22/2023 11:21 | #294328
Yes, compliations can be good and they can be bad. It still makes no sense whatsoever to have best of compilations in a best albums of the year list. It's not a real album. The music on it is not from 1998. And how do you even compare a life's work to someone else's single album?
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From 09/09/2020 23:53 | #257979
This was my introduction to Nick Cave. I knew 'Red Right Hand' & the 'Roses' song with Kylie and liked them both. Hence I bought this to get to know some of his other work. Massively impressed. Great selection of songs throughout. I now have a good half dozen of his studio albums and love them all. Compilations are a good starting point when discovering new music. Highly recommend this one.
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From 07/15/2016 19:37 | #171370
This is pretty damn good as far as compilations go. The track listing is superb. All the songs you'd want are pretty much here. Excellent, especially for casual fans(if indeed there are any).
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