Building The Perfect Beast (studio album)
by Don Henley
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Don Henley bestography
Building The Perfect Beast is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Don Henley on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Don Henley is The End Of The Innocence which is ranked number 5014 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 272.
(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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Building The Perfect Beast track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/12/2025 23:44 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 23:22 | machiaj | 773 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2025 18:17 |  Squonk007 | 719 | 24/100 |
| ! | 02/18/2025 22:05 | cicadelic | 11,221 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/16/2024 16:21 | Juneof44 | 2,546 | 69/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.9/100, a mean average of 66.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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Tier List for my preferences of the tracks on this album:
Top: 6
High: 1, 2, 7, 9, 10
Neutral: 3-5, 8, 11
This album is easy to trash. The production sounds dated and it's about 50% filler material. That said there are some great tracks on here. Mr. Henley should have spent more time refining the rest of the record.
junodog4 01/20/2016 03:51 | #157059
Meh... It's alright, but short of a great single, there's not much else. All She Wants To Do Is Dance is grating.
Best Track: The Boys of Summer
timtooky 04/10/2014 19:40 | #108973
awfully filled single.
Completly different from the Eagles sound. Some nice tracks.
Jasonconfused 02/02/2013 06:26 | #63668
Not really sure how this was a hit album. A couple decent songs, but overall pretty weak.
paladisiac 08/17/2012 16:13 | #48736
This album is baffling. One minute he offers a solid song like "the boys of summer" or "sunset grill", and the next a batsh|t awful song like the title track or "you're not drinking enough" (oh, the irony!). It's like he was intermittently sniffing markers or 10w40 or somethin'... Anyway, his misguided ideas do their best to kill some album tracks (like the harmonies at the end of "drivin' with your eyes closed). Overall, i guess i should give him some points for not sticking to rock template (although john fogerty wants his "boys of summer" track back), but holy uneven album batman!
Romanelli 05/22/2011 23:46 | #22144
Another 80's album that has not aged well. The keyboards alone are worth knocking off a half star.
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