Fear
by John Cale
John Cale bestography
Fear is ranked 3rd best out of 42 albums by John Cale on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by John Cale is Paris 1919 which is ranked number 752 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,295.
(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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Fear track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 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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| 03/26/2026 09:18 |  melisandre | 284 | 79/100 | |
| 01/28/2026 02:19 | skrapoel | 2,254 | 71/100 | |
| 01/11/2026 00:35 |  phantom1305 | 2,812 | 71/100 | |
| 12/29/2025 19:58 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,264 | 70/100 | |
| 12/09/2025 07:06 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.
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Brandon8 04/11/2015 03:12 | #139303
I believe this album is an underrated gem. An enjoyable and unpredictable listen throughout. Fear is a Man's Best Friend, Gun and You Know Me More Than I Know are my favorites.
The first two songs are the best by far here. 'Fear is a Man's Best Friend' is like a ship going down in the sea of misery and everyone just likes to sing along. Most artists thesedays who would have wrote a song with that title would have made it a plodding acoustic guitar whimper piece. Here it is a hymn. The softness of Buffalo Ballet doesn't take anything from it's effect. Else where the album is a buffet of pcoket worries and friendly shadows. Fear is a fantastic choice for an album title for the music here. On top of all of that, fantastic album! Would put on a 1970s chart agian!
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