Tallulah
by The Go-Betweens
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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 1101 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,587.
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Tallulah track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Tallulah rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 68/100 | 32 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 95/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 18/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1987 | 26/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 74 Music Albums of 1987 | 38/74 | 3 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 65 Music Albums of 1987 | 45/65 | 2 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | JamesMowbray | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 12/100 | 18 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 76 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 257 | |||
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Tallulah ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/14/2026 18:18 | JamesMowbray | 5,702 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 19:22 | willtoshower | 1,545 | 72/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2025 23:03 |  MadhattanJack | 6,020 | 66/100 |
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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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Tallulah forum mentions
Liedzeit 06/26/2026 08:55 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) dihansse 09/12/2024 19:03 in My discoveries per year
Repo 11/01/2023 12:46 in What album are you listening to right now?Tallulah comments
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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.
apeiron 03/27/2015 03:15 | #137921 | TOP COMMENT
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A great album from two of the best songwriters of the 80's
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