Tallulah
by The Go-Betweens

Tallulah by The Go-Betweens
Year: 1987
Overall rank: 5,242nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 73 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1987 (67th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (761st)
Award Best albums of all time (5,242nd)

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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 1066 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,629.

The Go-Betweens album bestography « Higher ranked (4,663rd)
Before Hollywood
This album (5,242nd)
Tallulah
Lower ranked (6,186th) »
The Friends Of Rachel Worth

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Tallulah rankings

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Overall rank: 5,242nd | 1980s rank: 761st | 1987 rank: 67th

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 73 votes)
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12/07/2025 19:22 willtoshower  Ratings distribution  1,54372/100
 
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11/05/2025 23:03 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  5,64766/100
 
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10/22/2025 22:41 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,42765/100
 
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09/13/2025 04:40 Olli  Ratings distribution  6,75563/100
 
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01/03/2025 10:33 Juneof44  Ratings distribution  2,58269/100

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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 76.8/100, 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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From 05/26/2017 02:44 | #191430
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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A great album from two of the best songwriters of the 80's
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