Jammy Smears
by Ivor Cutler
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Ivor Cutler bestography
Jammy Smears is ranked as the best album by Ivor Cutler.
(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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Jammy Smears track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Jammy Smears rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 97 Music Albums of 1976 | 10/97 | 5 |
| 2025 | Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 86/100 | 3 |
| 2025 |  drstuey | Top 22 Music Albums of 1976 | 19/22 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | drstuey | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 79/100 | 4 |
| 2021 | stereo_mike | Top 24 Music Albums of 1976 | 11/24 | 3 |
| 2012 |  lancashirearab | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 70/100 | - |
| 2012 | lancashirearab | Top 20 Music Albums of 1976 | 2/20 | 5 |
| 2012 | lancashirearab | Best Scottish Albums | 27/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 24 | |||
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Jammy Smears ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 12/27/2025 04:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 8,163 | 70/100 | |
| 02/27/2022 11:51 | drstuey | 2,697 | 73/100 | |
| 07/25/2021 17:33 | Sony1980 | 278 | 72/100 | |
| 11/11/2020 21:15 | Hayden | 7,538 | 72/100 | |
| 04/16/2018 17:18 |  ddeeddles64 | 2,819 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.
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lancashirearab 06/23/2012 06:22 | #45094
Norman Bates is welcome. Listening to John Peel in the late evenings, introduced this great man to me. A legend. He even appears in the Magical Mystery Tour as the bus conductor Buster Bloodvessel.
Norman Bates 04/17/2012 09:06 | #40401
Thanks to lancashirearab, I found this one on his chart. It's absolutely brilliant, very different, somewhere between Lewis Carroll and the Monty Python. Beautiful, particularly the numbers where Cutler plays the harmonium.
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