Desperado
by Eagles
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Eagles bestography
Desperado is ranked 3rd best out of 19 albums by Eagles on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Eagles is Hotel California which is ranked number 266 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,057.
(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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Desperado track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Desperado rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Most listened to studio albums of 2021 (101 - 200) (To delete) | 57/99 | - |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1970s Pt 3 | 8/23 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1973 | 23/59 | - |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 71 Music Albums of 1973 | 65/71 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Taka | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 93/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 57 Music Albums of 1973 | 46/57 | 1 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1973 | 26/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 21/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 209 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 723 | |||
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Desperado ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/30/2026 17:10 | davidhuret | 2,084 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 12:28 | Philly28 | 956 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2026 13:55 | Jakor | 5,525 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5364): By steve397
jackup 03/26/2026 16:15 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Desperado comments
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Muchos puristas del country rock consideran este álbum el mejor de los Eagles. Espléndido.
What could I say? I love these guys! With them, always wonderful vocalizations and very well recorded guitars. My form of analysis is: if there are 4 or more quality songs (as I know that an album is almost always unlikely to be perfect), and if there is a good production (good arrangements, good recording and good mixing), the score is maximum! And this album has it all, in addition to 5 songs of great potential (Doolin-Dalton, Tequila Sunrise, Desperado, Certain Kind of Fool and Bitter Creek).
Fischman 01/09/2019 17:46 | #229391
Strong sophomore release. The title cut is one of the greatest ballads of all time. (Edited)
The Eagles at their best! (Edited)
I bought Desperado by Eagles on 27/12/2000 from on CD for £4.99 The version I have is on the record label Asylum catalogue number 7559-60627-2 It entered the UK charts on 12/07/1975 and got to number 39 spending a total of 9 weeks on the chart.
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