Automatic (studio album)
by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Automatic by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 4,023rd   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 148 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (53rd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (590th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,023rd)

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The Jesus And Mary Chain bestography

Automatic is ranked 3rd best out of 16 albums by The Jesus And Mary Chain on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Jesus And Mary Chain is Psychocandy which is ranked number 300 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,596.

The Jesus And Mary Chain album bestography « Higher ranked (824th)
Darklands
This album (4,023rd)
Automatic
Lower ranked (4,177th) »
Honey's Dead

(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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Automatic 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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Automatic rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,023rd | 1980s rank: 590th | 1989 rank: 53rd

Automatic collection

Automatic ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 148 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.

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80/100
From 09/28/2022 05:56 | #290020
Says a lot about the excellence of "Psychocandy" & "Darklands" that I found an album this good a disappointment ??
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85/100
From 12/05/2018 04:46 | #226216
This album is definitely my favorite from the group and that’s high praise since I consider Psycho Candy a classic. This is a great album throughout especially Blues From A Gun, Head On & Take It.
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From 03/09/2018 11:40 | #210462
An impressive third record from JAMC that feels revitalised and is filled to the brim with really good, crowd-pleasing pop-rock tracks. The disdain is really quite unfair because although it can't live upto the exceptionally high bar set by "Psychocandy" & "Darklands", this one holds its own.
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45/100
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From 08/02/2016 21:00 | #172158
Some really good songs but it's all let down by the horrible 80's drum machine for me. The Pixies version of Head On shows how good this album could've been.
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From 03/24/2016 22:48 | #162453
Less feedback and perfectly suited to that late 80's sound of Stone Roses and the like, than Pyschocandy. Still got that edgy sound, especially the last 4 tracks (I have the 10 track vinyl version). First six songs are crackers with Blues From A Gun my favourite track of theirs.
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From 04/26/2014 12:29 | #110112
Blues From A Gun and Head On are my favorite songs! This is up there with the first two!
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From 11/09/2011 22:44 | #30257
Panned by critics in the late 80's, had it been released to 20 years later it would had been hailed as the masterpiece of its generation. Although it doesn't have the dark atmospheric textures of Psychocandy or Darklands it is a more accesible and guitar driven album which never looses energy and focus and that seems like a textbook when you listen to so many bands today, An underrated masterpiece that has and will keep standing the test of time...
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