Tallulah
by The Go-Betweens

Tallulah by The Go-Betweens
Year: 1987
Release date: 1987-06-01
Overall rank: 5,394th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 74 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1987 (67th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (767th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,394th)

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The Go-Betweens bestography

Tallulah is ranked 4th best out of 16 albums by The Go-Betweens on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Go-Betweens is 16 Lovers Lane which is ranked number 1086 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,612.

The Go-Betweens album bestography « Higher ranked (4,778th)
Before Hollywood
This album (5,394th)
Tallulah
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Tallulah

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Tallulah rankings

Tallulah rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,394th | 1980s rank: 767th | 1987 rank: 67th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 1 hour ago).
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2026Juneof44Top 50 Music Albums of 198726/503
2026 Norman BatesTop 100 Music Albums of 198758/1002
2026stangetzawayTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s12/10018
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of 198718/1004
2026 MadhattanJackTop 69 Music Albums of 198718/694
2026stangetzawayBest Australian Albums10/100 -
2026LittleM1971Top 94 Music Albums of 198726/944
2026 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 198795/1000
2026stangetzawayTop 100 Greatest Music Albums68/10032
2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 198730/1004
2026 Patman360Top 73 Music Albums of 198738/732
2026 videoheadcleanerTop 100 Music Albums of 198738/1003
2026 dihansseTop 65 Music Albums of 198745/652
2025 RepoTop 100 Music Albums of 198757/1002
2025JohnnyoGreatest albums of the '80's (201 - 300) by U R C25/100 -
2025 IgtonumamaTop 100 Music Albums of 198752/1002
2025 cestuneblagueTop 100 Music Albums of 198723/1004
2025 slatsheitTop 46 Music Albums of 198736/461
2025arnellarsenTop 74 Music Albums of 198732/743
2025OlliTop 100 Music Albums of 198793/1000
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 75
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 255
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Tallulah ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 74 votes)
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07/14/2026 18:18 JamesMowbray  Ratings distribution  5,57069/100
 
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09/13/2025 04:40 Olli  Ratings distribution  7,51462/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.


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80/100
Classically trained Multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown joined The Go-Betweens for Tallulah, and her skills on violin, oboe, guitar, and keyboards helped usher in the band’s most commercially oriented era. The Go-Betweens benefited from a lusher, more detailed sound – the richly textured 16 Lovers Lane and Oceans Apart are among their most successful albums – and Tallulah is also heading in the same direction. Song for song, however, Tallulah isn’t the most consistent Go-Betweens album, mostly due to inconsistent writing from McLennan. It’s almost as if he’d put all his effort into one song – the sublime ‘Bye Bye Pride’ might be my favourite entry in the entire Go-Betweens’ catalogue, a warm, enigmatic song.
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90/100
A great album from two of the best songwriters of the 80's
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