Sacred Songs
by Daryl Hall
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Daryl Hall bestography
Sacred Songs is ranked as the best album by Daryl Hall.
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Sacred Songs track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Sacred Songs 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 |  paladisiac | top albums, #1701-1800* | 56/84 | - |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 37 Music Albums of 1980 | 16/37 | 3 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 801-900 | 53/100 | - |
| 2025 | mostlymor | 1980 Part 1 | 57/100 | - |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 10/100 | 5 |
| 2025 | paladisiac | 1980s, #201-300* | 66/83 | - |
| 2025 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 89/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | skrapoel | Top 51 Music Albums of 1980 | 49/51 | 0 |
| 2024 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2020 | paladisiac | best *1st album | 95/100 | - |
| 2020 | paladisiac | !You've Been Caught Sleeping! (p02) | 4/100 | - |
| 2019 | ReelBigToph | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 84/100 | 1 |
| 2018 | paladisiac | my fav art / experimental | 61/100 | - |
| 2016 | paladisiac | best genesis-related albums | 17/37 | - |
| 2016 | sonicdiscourse | 1980 To-Do List | 21/62 | - |
| 2011 | Robert1 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 87/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 17 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 17 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/11/2025 23:54 | Skerns | 5,166 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/25/2024 03:51 |  CaptainPain | 3,415 | 61/100 |
| ! | 06/26/2024 16:01 | platus | 5,874 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/25/2023 19:29 | TonySayers61 | 25,237 | 64/100 |
| ! | 02/13/2020 04:04 |  covecove | 6,670 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.7/100, a mean average of 65.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 22.2.
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This is really fucking badass. Features Fripp on guitar playing incredibly heavy at times. Going to take me a little while to process this. It' mashes up multiple ideas and somehow makes them work. This is not your Daddy's Hall & Oates. Highly recommended!
paladisiac 12/09/2011 16:28 | #32449
This is like a cross between elton john and david bowie fronted by daryl hall's soulful voice. If you know Hall from his 80s hits, this is definitely a slight curveball to those preconceptions. They're still pop songs at their core, but not the usual you'd expect from hall & oates or daryl's later solo career. But they're not h&o. Check out the ending of "babs and babs" (which will remind some of radiohead material with the instrumental segue around the midway point as well as the ending). the short, instrumental "urban landscape" is eno-esque, and daryl hall is hushed back in the mix of eerie "the farther away i am" (another song that reminds me of raidohead). "nycny" ROCKS with near-vitriol and loud, grating guitar. "survive" is a rowdy, rock-stomper. Robert Fripp (of king crimson fame) produces, which explains a lot and their odd combination works well throughout. If you ever liked daryl's vocals but couldn't stand the poppiness of something like "big bam boom", then check this out as "the other extreme". I wish daryl tried this kinda thing more often..
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