Universal Mother
by Sinéad O'Connor
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Sinéad O'Connor bestography
Universal Mother is ranked 4th best out of 15 albums by Sinéad O'Connor on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sinéad O'Connor is I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got which is ranked number 1055 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,658.
(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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Universal Mother track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Universal Mother rankings
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Universal Mother ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago |  Tamthebam | 23,129 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2026 15:38 | glebrus | 469 | 81/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 16:08 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 01:19 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2025 17:40 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,775 | 82/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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She's one whose voice is a truly amazing instrument. Not many can pull off songs with no accompanying music or just vocals with piano quite like her. One of her best albums with some of her best songs. I feel it's one that gets overlooked
A great album. Fire On Babylon and Thank You For Hearing me are almost perfect songs.
Worth listening to this album. A few tracks pretty cool. But I prefer to debut
what? only 4 ratings? but this is a great album, isn't it?
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