Whammy!
by The B-52's
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Whammy! is ranked 6th best out of 15 albums by The B-52's on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The B-52's is The B-52's which is ranked number 877 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,966.
(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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Whammy! 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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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 08/26/2025 04:24 | lanadeleswift | 3,687 | 86/100 | |
| 02/19/2025 08:18 | Banner | 4,922 | 80/100 | |
| 01/21/2025 09:17 | JamesMowbray | 5,504 | 69/100 | |
| 06/08/2024 05:46 | culwin | 1,491 | 75/100 | |
| 05/01/2024 07:55 |  MetalMan67 | 6,111 | 71/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.6/100, a mean average of 70.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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Not as eccentric as the earlier albums but pretty consistant and still quirky. More of a taste for what was to come and still well worth a listen, tracks 6,7 and 8 not as good as the others though.
The bridge between the earlier party records and the latter albums like Bouncing Off The Satellites and Cosmic Thing where they were going in a slightly more serious vein. Underrated and I think people write the album off unfairly because of the heavy synthesizer usage here, but hey it was 1983, what do you expect?
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