The Best Of The Animals
by The Animals
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The Animals bestography
The Best Of The Animals is ranked 5th best out of 24 albums by The Animals on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Animals is The Animals which is ranked number 2410 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 671.
(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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The Best Of The Animals track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
The Best Of The Animals rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 17 Music Albums of 1966 | 13/17 | - |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1701-1800 | 47/100 | - |
| 2026 | jlsfourth | Top 100 Albums of the 20th Century | 96/100 | - |
| 2026 | jlsfourth | Top 60 Music Albums of the 1960s | 25/60 | 12 |
| 2026 | machiaj | Top 60 Complication Albums | 60/60 | - |
| 2025 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 34/100 | 13 |
| 2025 | jlsfourth | Top 10 Music Albums of 1965 | 4/10 | 4 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1965 | 72/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  djrodo | Top 25 Music Albums of 1965 | 16/25 | 2 |
| 2025 | jlsfourth | Top 10 Greatest Hits Compilations | 4/10 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 32 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 75 | |||
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The Best Of The Animals ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/21/2026 21:49 | machiaj | 805 | 71/100 |
| ! | 10/29/2024 15:19 | jlsfourth | 1,218 | 72/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2023 10:56 | Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.6.
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The Best Of The Animals forum mentions
Romanelli 10/15/2026 13:21 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Romanelli 06/08/2024 14:19 in What album are you listening to right now? Romanelli 11/11/2022 21:48 in The Romanelli Music Diary: UnpluggedThe Best Of The Animals comments
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RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/25/2016 02:46 | #160696
How is House of the Rising Sun and Boom Boom not a top rated track? Anyway, for a best of record, it's actually not that great (on a best of I'd expect almost every song to be great or at least good and there were a few on here I really disliked). Still quite a few GREAT songs and that organ even on less good songs is just a great sound.
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