Tattoo
by Rory Gallagher

Tattoo by Rory Gallagher
Year: 1973
Overall rank: 4,367th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 82 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1973 (81st)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (733rd)
Award Best albums of all time (4,367th)

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Rory Gallagher bestography

Tattoo is ranked 2nd best out of 28 albums by Rory Gallagher on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Rory Gallagher is Irish Tour which is ranked number 3796 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 385.

Rory Gallagher album bestography « Higher ranked (3,796th)
Irish Tour
This album (4,367th)
Tattoo
Lower ranked (8,742nd) »
Rory Gallagher

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Tattoo rankings

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Overall rank: 4,367th | 1970s rank: 733rd | 1973 rank: 81st

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 82 votes)
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02/16/2026 03:24 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,10833/100
 
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01/24/2026 00:36 iann97  Ratings distribution  1,97874/100
 
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08/30/2024 10:31 Elephanttalk  Ratings distribution  23187/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.

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75/100
From 08/24/2020 17:25 | #257388
Pleasantly surprised by this one. Great blues guitarists. Rating (78.89)
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From 11/06/2019 11:21 | #244486
Great blues rock album
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From 03/23/2018 10:32 | #211543
The greatest studio album from the great man. Fabulous blues rock
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From 01/31/2018 21:23 | #206915
Have only recently got into Rory Gallagher. This album is fantastic, recently bought on vinyl re-issue and it is so full of energy. This guy was one hell of a guitarist. One of those albums, the more you listen, the more you hear.
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From 02/04/2013 17:12 | #63939
With a couple of exceptions I love all of rory gallaghers albums, (I like the other ones, just not as much) but this one just shades it for me as his best over Duece, on the basis that there is not a weak track on it.
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From 11/22/2012 20:08 | #55652
Arguably Rory Gallagher's best studio effort. His best work was done live, but this is definitely worth a listen. Several of these tracks were performed on his landmark Irish Tour album. This is blues-rock at its finest.
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2. Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
3. Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin
4. Selling England By The Pound by Genesis
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