The Less You Know, The Better
by DJ Shadow
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DJ Shadow bestography
The Less You Know, The Better is ranked 5th best out of 13 albums by DJ Shadow on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by DJ Shadow is Endtroducing..... which is ranked number 155 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,842.
(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 Less You Know, The Better track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Less You Know, The Better rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2011 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 83 Music Albums of 2011 | 34/83 | 3 |
| 2025 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - DJ Shadow (USA) - Ranked | 13/14 | - |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 2011 | 43/100 | 3 |
| 2021 |  guzguzgarbit | Top 47 Music Albums of 2011 | 29/47 | 2 |
| 2016 | AGJones | Top 99 Music Albums of the 2010s | 72/99 | 6 |
| 2015 |  ButterThumbz | Top 78 Music Albums of 2011 | 66/78 | 1 |
| 2015 | AGJones | Top 20 Music Albums of 2011 | 11/20 | 3 |
| 2011 | Clash | Clash Albums Of The Year 2011 | 20/40 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 23 | |||
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The Less You Know, The Better ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/12/2026 10:03 | marcoserra1966 | 872 | 59/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2025 01:44 | PapaShiz86 | 11,663 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2023 12:24 | LosWochos | 47,430 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/29/2023 06:13 | TradeShark | 754 | 47/100 |
| ! | 11/15/2022 02:57 |  Arthurknight | 9,588 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.0/100, a mean average of 67.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.6.
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Graeme2 12/18/2013 07:45 | #97959
He lost a lot of fans with the outsider hence the low ranking for this. However this is a very solid album. Gone is hyphy style (was that what it was called?)
Deserves to be heard. Very good. (Edited)
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