Portrait Of An American Family
by Marilyn Manson
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Marilyn Manson bestography
Portrait Of An American Family is ranked 7th best out of 17 albums by Marilyn Manson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Marilyn Manson is Mechanical Animals which is ranked number 1597 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,078.
(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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Portrait Of An American Family track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Portrait Of An American Family rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 29/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 46 Music Albums of 1994 | 17/46 | 3 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 50 Music Albums of 1994 | 40/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 21 Music Albums of 1994 | 16/21 | 1 |
| 2026 | JoshN125 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 74/100 | 26 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Worst Albums I’ve Listened To | 47/59 | - |
| 2026 | JoshN125 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 20/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1994 | 92/100 | - |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | 1994 year, 101-200* | 7/13 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 35 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 103 | |||
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Portrait Of An American Family ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/08/2026 16:39 |  MagicSix | 1,092 | 60/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2025 21:19 |  ExTeaSea | 5,237 | 83/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 22:09 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.4/100, a mean average of 66.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.0.
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Much better than it's given credit for. A lot better than a few of his albums ranked above it. My only gripe is the wasted 9 minutes at the end of Misery Machine which ruined a perfectly good song (Edited)
Brandon8 03/27/2020 03:56 | #249135
My favorite Marilyn Manson album. He had good to very good albums after but this was his mission statement. Everything you need to know about the Artist is expressed here. (Edited)
The best Marylin could ever get in his whole musical career.
His voice is pretty bad.
Great work, love the album cover.
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