Big Mess
by Danny Elfman
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Danny Elfman bestography
Big Mess is ranked 5th best out of 16 albums by Danny Elfman on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Danny Elfman is Edward Scissorhands (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) which is ranked number 6693 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 196.
(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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Big Mess track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (12 out of 18 tracks have been rated).
Big Mess rankings
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Big Mess ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/01/2026 03:05 | dhbarrett | 8,592 | 65/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2025 23:45 | TodFitz | 27,375 | 63/100 |
| ! | 12/28/2024 20:26 |  cestuneblague | 8,244 | 80/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2023 01:37 |  ExTeaSea | 5,231 | 83/100 |
| ! | 02/06/2023 18:04 | DavideBerna | 1,885 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.5/100, a mean average of 69.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.3.
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pjohnsongolf 06/22/2021 01:06 | #270902
The title of this album fits it perfectly as this album honestly is a big mess. This is an album that can only be made over a lifetime of experience in film scores and multiple genres. Danny uses his experiences to put together this beast of an album. 18 tracks are honestly quite a bit for an album and makes this one drag out quite a bit making it hard to listen to over and over. There are few on here that are quite boring. However, there are some songs on here that are incredible. The heavier hitting songs on this one are what stand out to me the most. The combination of heavy riffs and an orchestra leave your jaw being dropped quite often. The biggest stand out to me is the album’s opener Sorry. This track still blows my mind every time I hear it. Anyways this is definitely an album everyone should give a listen at least once.
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