The Car
by Arctic Monkeys
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Arctic Monkeys bestography
The Car is ranked 7th best out of 10 albums by Arctic Monkeys on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Arctic Monkeys is Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not which is ranked number 69 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,374.
(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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The Car track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Car rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 90/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 63 Music Albums of 2022 | 6/63 | 5 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 35 Music Albums of 2022 | 26/35 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Taka | Top 36 Music Albums of the 2020s | 4/36 | 18 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 15 Music Albums of 2022 | 13/15 | 1 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 48 Music Albums of the 2020s | 40/48 | 4 |
| 2026 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 60/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | gregthealien | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2022 | 41/50 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 211 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 845 | |||
The Car collection
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The Car ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/13/2026 22:59 | willowen9 | 1,055 | 69/100 |
| ! | 09/07/2026 14:38 | kinginsomniac12 | 600 | 99/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2026 12:32 | doppelsechs | 74 | 77/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 70.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.
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The Car forum mentions
neilgee 12/16/2025 18:17 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
pedro1976 12/10/2022 13:27 in What album are you listening to right now?
BestEverAlbums 10/21/2022 12:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2022-10-17) (week 42, 2022)The Car comments
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Underrated gem in their discography. (Edited)
Album Rating: 82.10
(821/10)
21.10.2022
Arctic Monkeys (UK): The Car
1.There’d Better Be A Mirrorball. 76
2.I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am. 76
3.Sculptures Of Anything Goes. 96
4.Jet Skis On The Moat. 84
5.Body Paint. 99
6.The Car. 71
7.Big Ideas. 83
8.Hello You. 84
9.Mr. Schwartz. 69
10.Perfect Sense. 83
It's grown on me in the past 12 months. A lot. (Edited)
I absolutely adore the first track, There'd Better Be A Mirrorball, it's in my opinion the best song they've written for a decade and is probably in my top 5 Arctic Monkeys tracks. But the rest of the album falls flat for me I'm afraid. Slow, boring, pretentious. Clearly they're not the same cheeky teenagers they were in the mid-noughties so a change of style was needed, but I'm not a fan of the direction they've gone - wasn't too hot on their last album either. (Edited)
sszwalbenest 11/20/2023 13:47 | #300076
I was a pretty strong hater of Arctic Monkeys before THBC but I loved this record. My new favorite by this group so far, and I’m looking forward to what’s next. (Edited)
serpico 07/08/2023 22:37 | #298008
Después de AM y el riesgo que tomaron con TBH&C, The Car es un disco donde Artic Monkeys ha refinado su nueva faceta musical, tiene algunas de las mejores canciones de su ultima etapa y varias de ellas me recordaron a otros grupos y artistas, aquí va mi apreciación, There'd Better Be A Mirrorball me recordó a Roxy Music y la manera de cantar de Bryan Ferry, I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am está inspirada en Sly & The Family Stone, Sculptures Of Anything Goes tiene unos sintetizadores parecidos al penúltimo disco de Depeche Mode , Spirit, Jet Skis On The Moat es como esas baladas de Prince, Body Paint es como una canción de los Beatles compuesta por Paul McCartney y The Car sin duda es un obvio homenaje a Ennio Morricone. En mi opinión un gran disco con algunas canciones sublimes como Big Ideas.
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