Once Upon A Time: The Singles
by Siouxsie And The Banshees

Once Upon A Time: The Singles by Siouxsie And The Banshees
(Compilation album)
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 9,228th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 78 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (145th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,303rd)
Award Best albums of all time (9,228th)

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Siouxsie And The Banshees bestography

Once Upon A Time: The Singles is ranked 8th best out of 16 albums by Siouxsie And The Banshees on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Siouxsie And The Banshees is Juju which is ranked number 572 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,975.

Siouxsie And The Banshees album bestography « Higher ranked (4,552nd)
Hyaena
This album (9,228th)
Once Upon A Time: The Singles
Lower ranked (9,586th) »
Superstition

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Once Upon A Time: The Singles track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Once Upon A Time: The Singles rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 9,228th | 1980s rank: 1,303rd | 1981 rank: 145th

Once Upon A Time: The Singles collection

Once Upon A Time: The Singles ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 78 votes)
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03/15/2026 17:28 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,58570/100
 
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12/12/2025 02:14 Olli  Ratings distribution  7,16763/100
 
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03/27/2023 22:27 matterhornrider  Ratings distribution  5,03281/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.4/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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90/100
From 11/25/2015 17:28 | #153450
This album is part of my personal top 1000 you can check out on this site.
Siouxie and the Banshees have issued a lot of great albums like "Ju Ju" and some live albums like "Nocturne" but I think this album is the best representation of how good this band was.
For one reason or another I especially like the intros and outros of these songs like "Hong Kong Garden", "Love in A Void" and Spellbound".
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From 10/02/2014 20:19 | #123196
Best compilation for the Banshees, highlights the best points of their career.
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From 01/23/2012 01:21 | #35686
Nice collection of highlights from their early years. Personally i like Twice Upon a Time better.
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2. Computerwelt by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
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