The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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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 369 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,472.
(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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The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 100 Band Compilations | 12/100 | - |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 41 Music Albums of 1998 | 35/41 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 90 Music Albums of 1998 | 31/90 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 57 Music Albums of 1998 | 6/57 | 5 |
| 2026 | Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 36/100 | 13 |
| 2025 |  AAL2014 | The Greatest Greatest Hits | 9/30 | - |
| 2025 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Nick Cave - Ranked | 36/41 | - |
| 2025 |  Strangel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 34/100 | 13 |
| 2025 |  bojolpif71 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 47/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 23 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 92 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/08/2026 16:01 | DrTchock97 | 749 | 76/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 12:16 | Strangel | 1,009 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2025 17:34 | traistboar | 1,793 | 79/100 |
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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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Purplepash 07/15/2020 09:47 in What album are you listening to right now?The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds comments
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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).
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.
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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