Outlandos D'Amour (studio album)
by The Police

Outlandos D'Amour by The Police
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 720th   
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 642 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1978 (13th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (162nd)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (720th)

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The Police bestography

Outlandos D'Amour is ranked 3rd best out of 14 albums by The Police on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Police is Synchronicity which is ranked number 308 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,539.

The Police album bestography « Higher ranked (673rd)
Reggatta De Blanc
This album (720th)
Outlandos D'Amour
Lower ranked (1,014th) »
Ghost In The Machine

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Outlandos D'Amour track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Outlandos D'Amour rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 720th | 1970s rank: 162nd | 1978 rank: 13th

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Outlandos D'Amour ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 642 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.0/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.

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60/100
From 06/07/2025 09:58 | #309283
No more than a good album for me, the hits are the best tracks here.
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From 06/01/2024 23:21 | #303801
not remarkable, not bad
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From 03/26/2023 08:22 | #295462
3 and 6 are masterpieces, especially 6 ? I like Sting in The Police, and I don’t like him in solo career ??
Sting without The Police ??
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75/100
From 05/28/2022 21:24 | #285782
There are some excellent tracks here like Roxanne, Truth Hits Everybody, Next To You, but the rest is mostly annoying high vocals and tracks that are too long.
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From 09/30/2020 00:28 | #258873
I'll give you and advice. Skip the last two songs and you have an almost perfect debut album.
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80/100
From 08/24/2020 15:27 | #257383
Great debut! Rating (81.50)
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From 08/25/2019 17:22 | #241670
Actually pretty good, apart from last 3 tracks.
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From 07/10/2019 19:45 | #239284
75/100

i am so disappointed with this album :(
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From 01/14/2019 16:16 | #229657
Not a bad album, three great tracks, but badly let down by the last two.
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From 02/15/2018 21:41 | #208367
Che colpo deve essere stato al momento della sua uscita "Outlandos d'amour" ! E si che nel 1978 le sorprese discografiche non mancavano… Credo che una simile concentrazione di hits ( "Roxanne", "So lonely", "Can't stand losing you", "Born in the 50's"… ) non la si aveva dai dischi dei Beatles. E' un disco imperfetto, questo; un diamante grezzo di pop secco, intelligente, sanguigno e ballabile insieme. Verrà la perfezione ( "Reggatta de blanc" ) e la perdita dell'ispirazione ( "Zeniatta Mondatta" ), la ricerca di nuove strade ( "Ghost in the machine" ) e la quadratura del cerchio ( "Synchronicity" ), prima dello scioglimento, ma nessun disco dei Police sarà più altrettanto eccitante, per me, di questo esordio.
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