Crocodiles
by Echo & The Bunnymen

Crocodiles by Echo & The Bunnymen
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-07-18
Overall rank: 1,725th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 273 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (38th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (266th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,725th)

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Echo & The Bunnymen bestography

Crocodiles is ranked 3rd best out of 24 albums by Echo & The Bunnymen on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Echo & The Bunnymen is Ocean Rain which is ranked number 447 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,809.

Echo & The Bunnymen album bestography « Higher ranked (1,154th)
Heaven Up Here
This album (1,725th)
Crocodiles
Lower ranked (1,764th) »
Porcupine

(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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Crocodiles rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,725th | 1980s rank: 266th | 1980 rank: 38th

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Crocodiles ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 273 votes)
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5 hours ago Skerns  Ratings distribution  5,08380/100
 
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02/26/2026 15:23 CA Dreamin  Ratings distribution  74270/100
 
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12/05/2025 16:34 Jakor  Ratings distribution  5,22468/100

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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 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.

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80/100
From 07/27/2022 07:01 | #287875
Punk spirit with dark atmosphere, like Joy Division but more energetic.
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65/100
From 11/04/2021 18:28 | #275859
prog rock nice feel might need further listens
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85/100
From 03/27/2021 23:56 | #267844
Classic album, every track is a winner. My second favourite Bunnymen album.
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From 01/21/2018 21:06 | #206235
Fine. Not particularly memorable.
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90/100
From 03/21/2017 19:35 | #187837
Fantastic guitar works makes this one of my favorite post-punk efforts, and probably my favorite Bunnymen album. The best track only appears on the US edition, "Do It Clean"
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80/100
From 11/08/2016 12:04 | #178097
Not as instant as some other Bunnymen albums but repeated listens brings out the individual songs. A strong album.
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From 03/02/2014 08:02 | #105096
A beautiful album that is great from beginning to end. Ian McCulloch's voice is so seductively sexy on every track!
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95/100
From 12/17/2012 13:46 | #58132
The first album I ever bought and still one of my favourites from the eighties. Just a fantastic Indie album!
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95/100
From 08/07/2012 15:23 | #48018
As with Heaven Up Here, the 2nd side is by far superior to the 1st.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 04/06/2012 15:31 | #39572
It made 80s Liverpool seem magical to us teuchters from Arbroath.
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Best Albums of 1980
1. Remain In Light by Talking Heads
2. Closer by Joy Division
3. Back In Black by AC/DC
4. Scary Monsters by David Bowie
5. Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys
6. Peter Gabriel (1980) by Peter Gabriel
7. The River by Bruce Springsteen
8. Permanent Waves by Rush
9. Pretenders by Pretenders
10. Seventeen Seconds by The Cure
11. Making Movies by Dire Straits
12. Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
13. Sandinista! by The Clash
14. Ace Of Spades by Motörhead
15. Boy by U2
16. Heaven And Hell by Black Sabbath
17. Dirty Mind by Prince
18. Gaucho by Steely Dan
19. Sound Affects by The Jam
20. Get Happy!! by Elvis Costello And The Attractions
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