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: 5,222nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 61 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (102nd)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (901st)
Award Best albums of all time (5,222nd)

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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 2858 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 544.

The Kills album bestography « Higher ranked (4,941st)
Blood Pressures
This album (5,222nd)
Keep On Your Mean Side
Lower ranked (10,427th) »
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 track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,222nd | 2000s rank: 901st | 2003 rank: 102nd

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Keep On Your Mean Side ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 61 votes)
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06/01/2026 09:17 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  12,33970/100
 
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05/16/2026 03:23 imacgill  Ratings distribution  2,76679/100
 
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03/15/2026 16:32 TastyandTemptin  Ratings distribution  3,16672/100
 
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10/14/2025 09:25 robertoveltri  Ratings distribution  86079/100

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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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From 07/03/2025 21:53 | #309878 | TOP COMMENT
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 | TOP COMMENT
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 | TOP COMMENT
Great rock album.
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