Strictly Commercial (The Best Of Frank Zappa) (compilation album)
by Frank Zappa
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Frank Zappa bestography
Strictly Commercial (The Best Of Frank Zappa) is ranked 96th best out of 123 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 230 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,955.
(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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Strictly Commercial (The Best Of Frank Zappa) track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Strictly Commercial (The Best Of Frank Zappa) rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | mrmcrook | Top 39 Music Albums of 1995 | 37/39 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Romanelli | Top 72 Music Albums of 1995 | 63/72 | 1 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Frank Zappa Chronological Order | 58/60 | - |
| 2025 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2101-2200 | 29/100 | - |
| 2025 |  AAL2014 | The Greatest Greatest Hits | 15/30 | - |
| 2025 | mrmcrook | Top 100 Band Compilations | 70/100 | - |
| 2024 | LosWochos | Best Ever Comedy Albums | 20/99 | - |
| 2023 |  TheDude85 | Quirky Fun | 30/40 | - |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 45/100 | 3 |
| 2023 | Johnnyo | Maryland | 4/31 | - |
| 2022 | Johnnyo | Most listened to albums in January 2022 | 14/100 | - |
| 2016 |  Captain_Dude | FAVORITE GREATEST HITS COMPILATION ALBUMS | 16/95 | - |
| 2014 |  Applerill | Frank Zappa Ranked | 8/14 | - |
| 2010 | ggrop | Top 20 Greatest Music Albums | 20/20 | - |
| 2010 | tridentgum0 | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 39/50 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 15 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4 | |||
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Strictly Commercial (The Best Of Frank Zappa) ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/03/2024 20:29 | LosWochos | 46,643 | 75/100 |
| ! | 10/16/2023 11:53 |  MetalMan67 | 5,957 | 71/100 |
| ! | 02/19/2023 08:22 | RVRO | 525 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/16/2022 18:38 | TheDude85 | 9,536 | 83/100 |
| ! | 11/14/2021 07:25 |  phantom1305 | 2,812 | 71/100 |
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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 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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I'm not a fanatical Frank Zappa fan but had liked a bit of what I'd heard. And there's to vast a choice of albums to just take a random punt. Hence why I got this to get as much in an album without filler. Happy with this. Good starting point
junodog4 10/05/2012 20:13 | #51795
I know that it seems kinda sacrilege to go for a Zappa compilation, but there's so many albums, this is a good place to start.
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