Chinatown
by Thin Lizzy
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Thin Lizzy bestography
Chinatown is ranked 8th best out of 25 albums by Thin Lizzy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Thin Lizzy is Jailbreak which is ranked number 659 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,603.
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Chinatown track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Chinatown rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 71/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 25 Music Albums of 1980 | 14/25 | 2 |
| 2026 |  rambleon80 | Greatest Music Albums #101 - 200 | 63/100 | - |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 88 Music Albums of 1980 | 31/88 | 3 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Greatest Music Albums #201 - 300 | 72/100 | - |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 49 Music Albums of 1980 | 25/49 | 3 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 94 Music Albums of the 1980s | 40/94 | 12 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 23 Music Albums of 1980 | 16/23 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 53 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 155 | |||
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Chinatown ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/18/2026 00:49 | mrmcrook | 1,128 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2026 03:45 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,671 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/18/2026 18:41 | adbrack1988 | 1,129 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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Chinatown forum mentions
Jboy56 01/23/2024 15:24 in What album are you listening to right now?Chinatown comments
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Jboy56 01/23/2024 14:36 | #301414 | TOP COMMENT
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A fine rocker, there is not much of these these days,,, FUn (Edited)
I think this is quite an under rated Lizzy album. Even though a lot of the songs are quite formulaic, they're really pretty good rocking songs. It's one of my favorite of there studio albums, 'Sugar Blues' & 'Killer on the Loose' both being standouts.
The first Snowy White album is not as good as the 2nd, and is, in my opinion, one of the weaker Lizzy albums, but it still offers many great songs. The riff writing is fantastic in some songs, notable the title track, Sweetheart (one of my top 20 Lizzy songs, no doubt), Sugar Blues, Killer on the Loose, and Hey You, all of which would make a legendary EP. Tracks like Having a Good Time, We Will Be Strong, and Genocide have some great guitar work, but feel a bit cheesy and generic at times. Didn't I is simply not for me, and brings the album down a bit. Lynott's written MUCH better slow ballad-type songs.
Overall, this is still a Thin Lizzy album, and Phil's cool and gritty personality shines on it, but the songwriting could be better in some places. As I said earlier, though, there's still much enjoyment to be found here. (Edited)
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