The Ballad Of Darren
by Blur
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The Ballad Of Darren is ranked 8th best out of 25 albums by Blur on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Blur is Parklife which is ranked number 205 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,359.
(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 Ballad Of Darren track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 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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| ! | 06/16/2026 12:51 | TonySayers61 | 25,347 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2026 19:07 | patmull | 576 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2026 11:07 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,468 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/08/2026 23:03 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,790 | 82/100 |
| ! | 03/04/2026 01:42 | evo | 272 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 73.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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Album of the year (Edited)
It's nothing special but it's solid and it's nice to hear another Blur album. My favourite track is The Ballad. (Edited)
Nice to see blur returning , the album is short but sweet with the narcissist being probably the best track, hope it's not the last blur album we see 7/10 (Edited)
Album Rating: 78.30
(783/10)
21.07.2023
Blur (UK): The Ballad of Darren
1.The Ballad. 81
2.St. Charles Square. 77
3.Barbaric. 81
4.Russian Strings. 76
5.The Everglades (For Leonard). 73
6.The Narcissist. 85
7.Goodbye Albert. 82
8.Far Away Island. 84
9.Avalon. 68
10.The Heights. 76 (Edited)
Probably the Narcissist is the best single of 2023. (Edited)
A return to the classic Blur sound of the 1990s, The Ballad Of Darren is the first new Blur album since 2015 and their best since The Great Escape. (Edited)
normal album, nothing special, just good album (Edited)
Incredibly short but sweet. (Edited)
On first listen this is Blurs best album since their 90's hey day for me (Edited)
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