L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg
by Serge Gainsbourg

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg by Serge Gainsbourg
Year: 1961
Overall rank: 12,966th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 34 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1961 (53rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (887th)
Award Best albums of all time (12,966th)

Listen on Spotify SPOTIFY

Log in or create an account to rate this album, leave comments or join the discussion.

Listen & Collect

Complete your collection or upgrade your listening experience.

Serge Gainsbourg bestography

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg is ranked 8th best out of 31 albums by Serge Gainsbourg on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Serge Gainsbourg is Histoire De Melody Nelson which is ranked number 610 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,762.

Serge Gainsbourg album bestography « Higher ranked (12,647th)
Rock Around The Bunker
This album (12,966th)
L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg
Lower ranked (13,851st) »
Vu De l'extérieur

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

Listen to L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg on YouTube

Loading content from YouTube...

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg rankings

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg rankings summary
Overall rank: 12,966th | 1960s rank: 887th | 1961 rank: 53rd  Overall chart history
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings).Help Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg collection

Showing all 9 members who have this album in their collection

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 34 votes)
  Ratings distribution Help Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV
where:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.

Showing latest 3 ratings for this album.  | Show all 34 ratings for this album.

Sort Sort by
RatingDate updatedMemberAlbum ratingsAvg. album rating
 
70/100
 !
08/27/2026 03:51 AAL2014  Ratings distribution  4,34275/100
 
60/100
 !
07/28/2026 21:01 Olli  Ratings distribution  7,95562/100
 
70/100
 !
01/05/2026 14:27 Hayden  Ratings distribution  7,96472/100

Rating metrics: Help Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)

This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.


Please log in or create an account if you want to be able to leave a rating

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg favourites


Please log in or create an account if you want to be able to add a favourite

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg forum mentions

This album has been referenced 2 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From kokkinos 07/06/2021 18:59 in I'm going back to the start
“Etta James - The Second Time Around Whenever I feel like listening to her, I will choose At Last without putting too much thought into it. This is also very enjoyable, simply not as memorable, which isn't as bad as it sounds, one has to admit it was hard to top her debut, which was my album of the…”
View post →

“Class act. "En relisant ta lettre" is the meanest funniest song in French ever.”
View post →

L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg comments

Anonymous
What do you think of this album? Be the first to comment!.
The top-voted comments get featured on our charts, Album of the Day, and the site newsletter.

Log in or create an account to rate this album, leave comments or join the discussion.