Flashback: The Best Of The J. Geils Band (compilation album) by The J. Geils Band
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The J. Geils Band bestography
Flashback: The Best Of The J. Geils Band is ranked 4th best out of 14 albums by The J. Geils Band on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The J. Geils Band is Freeze-Frame which is ranked number 4325 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 328.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (9 out of 10 tracks have been rated).
Flashback: The Best Of The J. Geils Band rankings
All 4 charts that this album appears in:
Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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2025 | TrekkiELO | Top 29 Music Albums of the 1980s | 25/29 | 3 |
2025 | TrekkiELO | Top 98 Greatest Music Albums | 67/98 | 32 |
2018 | TrekkiELO | Top 4 Music Albums of 1985 | 3/4 | 3 |
2016 | ![]() | FAVORITE GREATEST HITS COMPILATION ALBUMS | 47/95 | - |
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 4 | |||
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 38 |
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85/100 ![]() | 11/16/2024 04:18 | Markstar1 | ![]() | 88/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 09/11/2024 23:46 | BorderFreeAndrew | ![]() | 74/100 |
60/100 ![]() | 06/04/2023 19:08 | ![]() | ![]() | 83/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 02/20/2023 17:10 | ![]() | ![]() | 71/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 05/31/2021 05:52 | NHGRANITE | ![]() | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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For me this is a disappointing "Best Of..." collection as it focuses too sharply on the tremendous Blues band's ambitions to make it as Pop stars and their later pop driven works like "Centerfold" and "Freeze-frame" and not enough on where this band honed their sound in blues driven rock and roll. Their earlier material was much stronger. Just my two cents.
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