Honi Soit (studio album)
by John Cale
John Cale bestography
Honi Soit is ranked 20th best out of 42 albums by John Cale on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by John Cale is Paris 1919 which is ranked number 729 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,387.
(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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Honi Soit track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Honi Soit rankings
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Honi Soit ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/19/2025 10:41 | platus | 5,732 | 74/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2025 12:43 | JamesMowbray | 5,220 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2024 13:05 |  slatsheit | 2,041 | 81/100 |
| ! | 05/22/2024 07:47 | TonySayers61 | 22,915 | 64/100 |
| ! | 05/23/2023 12:00 |  Tamthebam | 22,876 | 69/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.7/100, a mean average of 70.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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OldToad 11/21/2020 01:12 | #261164
I usually take John Cale track by track; there's not an album of his I love from start to finish...except this one. The sputtering rage and fear is cathartic, this is an album to play LOUD. One of the very few times either Cale or Lou came anywhere near the level of the banana peel album, to my ears. It's not a masterpiece like that album--I rate the banana album a 100--but this does have a similar intensity. I've loved this one for decades.
Edit: Watch out for track 4, there's a repeated, definitely questionable at best, use of the n-word that could really offend if it comes out of the blue, if you didn't sort of grow up with this album.
Norman Bates 02/12/2014 16:04 | #102949
Splendid first two tracks, after which it's a bit hit or miss. Title track is good in an outrageous way. Check this album out by all means, probably not the place to start a Cale voyage though.
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