El Camino
by The Black Keys
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The Black Keys bestography
El Camino is ranked 2nd best out of 17 albums by The Black Keys on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Black Keys is Brothers which is ranked number 381 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,326.
(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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El Camino track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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El Camino rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 24/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | araidernomore | Top 13 Music Albums of 2011 | 5/13 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2011 | 10/84 | - |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 45 Music Albums of 2011 | 7/45 | 4 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2011 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  RasmV | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 77/100 | 22 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 22 Music Albums of 2011 | 3/22 | 5 |
| 2026 |  thirstyDog | Top 16 Music Albums of 2011 | 7/16 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 83 Music Albums of 2011 | 56/83 | 2 |
| 2026 |  pedro1976 | Top 19 Music Albums of 2011 | 1/19 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 663 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4,079 | |||
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El Camino ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 34 hours ago | luukvdschepop | 767 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/17/2026 05:54 | ASOARE | 2,540 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/12/2026 04:26 | Proto | 4,309 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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El Camino forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 5 days ago in Chart of the day (#5446): By RasmV
Romanelli 09/15/2026 18:47 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) BestEverAlbums 09/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5433): By JohnnyoEl Camino comments
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ShaneSpear TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/09/2011 18:32 | #32500 | TOP COMMENT
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None of the songs are bad at all. As a matter of fact, on its own merit this is a very very good album. The problem is that I just heard this album last year and back in 2008 also. You could put all the tracks from El Camino, Brothers, and Attack & Release in one playlist, hit random, and have three hours of great music. But I'll bet you can't place which album each of the songs were on without cheating.
covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/12/2011 15:43 | #32755 | TOP COMMENT
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Attack & Release is far more dirty and pwerful, however with Brothers the Keys where able to refine their sound and even generate a pop hook that brought them a well deserved mainstream success. That album was amazing and so is El Camino, it is fun, catchy and really rocknrolla, however and this is why I don't think is at the level of their past two pieces, the band doesn't seem to try to surpise us or even themselves, it is way inside their comfort zone and although it sounds amazing after what they did in their prior two albums I guess I was expecting more of them...
souplipton 06/12/2016 18:14 | #168549 | TOP COMMENT
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El Camino is The Black Keys best album, and its a good one. With lots of really good songs, and few weak ones it about as good an album as you could ask for from The Black Keys. However, I don't think Th Black Keys are a spectacular band, so, while this is likely the best they'll ever achieve, it's not an all time great. A really good album, but nothing more.
cartoken TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/16/2011 13:46 | #33096 | TOP COMMENT
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One of the best of the year. not a single song that is there just to be there, all good !
sulmagnificent 04/14/2013 16:29 | #73071 | TOP COMMENT
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After listening to Brothers I had a huge doubt that they could remain relevant and great at the same time, boy was I wrong
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