Dummy (studio album) by Portishead
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Dummy is ranked as the best album by Portishead.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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90/100  | 09/10/2025 02:19 | JoshN125 | | 86/100 |
85/100 | 09/09/2025 15:04 | Radiohead76 | | 79/100 |
90/100 | 09/08/2025 23:36 | stareaterogni0n | | 73/100 |
100/100 | 08/26/2025 14:46 | FunkyFerret83 | | 100/100 |
85/100 | 08/25/2025 19:10 |  djrodo | | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.3/100, a mean average of 83.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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Lounge music for the ambient electro crowd. I bought it on the credit of 'Glory Box'. I should have been happy as it's all in similar style, but alas, it just didn't do it for me. There are some good tracks but I find it's appeal is lost very quick when listening to it all in one sitting.
An excellent trip-hop album. Worth listening to over and over again. 9.5/10!
This album is near perfection, beautiful movie-like experience that takes you somewhere between noir cinema of 40s and modern (90s) city, vocals are beautifully haunting, emotional and instrumentals are often sensational, Glory Box and Sour Times are the most well-known songs, but I feel that Roads is probably my favorite here.
Myterious, dark, sexy. Very, very good album.
ExTeaSea 09/03/2022 21:15
Fantastic album for sure but they honestly got better with each album. That's just me though.
Has its moments
Pretty, then dull.
Jboy56 03/10/2022 18:21
Oh god, this gets better with each listen.
Glory BOX !. Any movie ending with that song could earn an Oscar.
A little bit overrated for me - I find the album a bit samey. Roads and Sour Times are great songs though, Glory Box is good too.
Masterpiece. I love this album so so much and would recommend it to everyone ! Definite magical moments throughout. The BEST
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