Pirates
by Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones bestography
Pirates is ranked as the best album by Rickie Lee Jones.
(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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Pirates track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 04/06/2026 04:27 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,585 | 70/100 | |
| 03/06/2026 09:22 | Leginlists | 3,377 | 82/100 | |
| 02/24/2026 22:45 | machiaj | 805 | 71/100 | |
| 01/11/2026 14:02 | oavaldezi | 4 | 100/100 | |
| 08/27/2025 17:43 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,751 | 82/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.
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Jboy56 04/23/2022 07:55 | #284513
A love Rickie-Lee, quite similar in tone and style as Joni, but with some nice new sound and vibes to give it some personal touch. A Very refreshing album and it still sounds up to date even being over 40 years old!
Everyone should just take a moment to appreciate this album. It may be a bit of a grower for some but it's stunning.
Excellent second album. Extremely intimate and beautiful. It hasn't quite got the immediacy of the first album but repeated listens brings out it's treasures. A lovely album.
Tamthebam 01/22/2017 17:26 | #183893
Her 2nd album is as good as her debut. This album contains 4 of her greatest songs ever Lucky Guy, Living It Up, We Belong Together & the sprawling Traces of the Western Slopes. The title track is also strong the tracks Woody & Dutch.......and Skeletons although good songs don't quite measure up to the rest of the album. So for me its her 2nd best album.
timtooky 03/27/2014 20:28 | #107811
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ffudnebbuh 09/25/2011 19:32 | #27826
classic, although my fav RLJ song is "Runaround" from "the Magazine".
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