Bo Diddley
by Bo Diddley
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Bo Diddley is ranked as the best album by Bo Diddley.
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Bo Diddley track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/21/2026 12:21 |  VictorVale | 3,870 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/14/2026 00:50 |  Helios | 6,208 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2025 09:34 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,328 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/28/2025 21:42 |  DommeDamian | 7,549 | 49/100 |
| ! | 10/15/2025 16:05 | platus | 5,871 | 74/100 |
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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 77.0/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.
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A fantastic record whose influence cannot be understated. Tracks have been covered by CCR, Captain Beefheart, George Thorogood, and many more. The Bo Diddley beat features in so many pop songs that it’s ingrained in musical culture forever.
Jboy56 02/26/2022 15:57 | #281947
Classic tracks covered by every possible guitar player and band during the past 64 years
2nd-Impressions 09/23/2020 21:06 | #258609
'Bo Diddley', 'I'm a Man', and 'Who Do You Love' are some pretty great highlights. Not necessarily the greatest of the Rock n' Roll generation, but this still holds up as a pretty good record overall.
StefanR10 06/20/2020 11:52 | #253974
Great rock and roll album I appreciate it very much. This is the invention of a great era.
This album was a huge influence an all rock music that followed. Tracks on this album covered thousands of times by such artits as the Rolling Stones, Clapton, CCR and many, many more. Even Buddy Holly in his short prolific career. Hell the Pretty Things based a whole carrer on this album.
best tracks: bo diddley, diddy wah diddy
RoundTheBend 01/23/2016 05:21 | #157397
Who Do You Love and Bo Diddley are probably best tracks.
I like Muddy Waters' version I'm A Man better (Mannish Boy). I heard some influence the Rolling Stones maybe picked up from Bring It To Jerome.
Next to Chuck Berry, this is one of the greatest early rock n roll albums out there. A classic!
poppmusic 02/05/2015 17:56 | #134054 | TOP COMMENT
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If you're a rock fan and haven't listened to this yet, do so as soon as you can. At times, this almost sounds like a documentary on African music- just listen to "Hush Your Mouth". But this is also the origins of hard, garage, and psychedelic music we all love, and much of that has to do with McDaniel's creative lyricism.
The true king of rock n roll
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