Armchair Theatre
by Jeff Lynne
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Armchair Theatre is ranked as the best album by Jeff Lynne.
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Armchair Theatre track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Armchair Theatre rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1990 | 21/50 | - |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 73/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 15/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | TrekkiELO | Top 5 Music Albums of 1990 | 2/5 | 4 |
| 2025 | TrekkiELO | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 24/100 | 72 |
| 2025 | TrekkiELO | Top 21 Music Albums of the 1990s | 5/21 | 16 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 24/100 | 4 |
| 2025 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 53/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 80/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 33 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 214 | |||
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Armchair Theatre ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/29/2025 04:10 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2024 19:54 | solunastra | 212 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/19/2024 07:28 | cicadelic | 13,911 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.5/100, a mean average of 68.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.1.
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Forum mentions
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Disco magnífico y variado que, en mi opinión, supera a cualquiera de sus trabajos con la ELO.
Leonard 09/29/2016 11:41 | #175997 | TOP COMMENT
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This was his rebirth after ELO!
This record was such a disappointment. It's way over produced and I just felt like "so what".
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