Keep On Your Mean Side
by The Kills

Keep On Your Mean Side by The Kills
Year: 2003
Release date: 2003-03-10
Overall rank: 5,250th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 59 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (102nd)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (913th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,250th)

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The Kills bestography

Keep On Your Mean Side is ranked 3rd best out of 8 albums by The Kills on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Kills is Midnight Boom which is ranked number 2940 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 518.

The Kills album bestography « Higher ranked (4,878th)
Blood Pressures
This album (5,250th)
Keep On Your Mean Side
Lower ranked (10,584th) »
No Wow

(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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Keep On Your Mean Side rankings

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Overall rank: 5,250th | 2000s rank: 913th | 2003 rank: 102nd

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 59 votes)
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11/21/2025 02:13 cestuneblague  Ratings distribution  8,03780/100
 
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10/14/2025 09:25 robertoveltri  Ratings distribution  82379/100
 
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08/10/2025 08:42 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  23,89964/100
 
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06/17/2024 16:09 LittleM1971  Ratings distribution  5,91281/100
 
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05/05/2024 19:12 matterhornrider  Ratings distribution  4,93881/100

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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.

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From 07/03/2025 21:53 | #309878
a raw, gritty garage rock record with a dark, hypnotic mood and a minimalist bluesy edge
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From 08/31/2021 02:38 | #273100
Great production sound enhancing just meh songs.. Too self-consciously cool to really excite. We know where they got their gritty blues style from and they know that we know. Was there a Kills vs White Stripes fan war back in the day?
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From 07/11/2013 23:41 | #81139
Great rock album.
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