Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (studio album)
by Elvis Costello
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Elvis Costello bestography
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane is ranked 29th best out of 37 albums by Elvis Costello on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Elvis Costello is This Year's Model which is ranked number 318 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,328.
(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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Secret, Profane & Sugarcane track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Secret, Profane & Sugarcane rankings
All 11 charts that this album appears in:
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  spigelwii | Top 7 Music Albums of 2009 | 4/7 | 3 |
| 2025 | lanadeleswift | Top 63 Music Albums of 2009 | 45/63 | 2 |
| 2025 | spigelwii | Top 70 Music Albums of the 2000s | 55/70 | 5 |
| 2025 | fabm0 | List 2009 | 54/86 | - |
| 2024 | Marswolf68 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 55/100 | 9 |
| 2023 | craab | Elvis Costello Albums Ranked | 21/29 | - |
| 2020 | Red0510 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 69/100 | 6 |
| 2019 |  skelter54 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2009 | 38/50 | 1 |
| 2018 | rkm | Produced by T-Bone Burnett | 73/100 | - |
| 2016 | garycottier | Top 17 Music Albums of 2009 | 9/17 | 3 |
| 2016 | garycottier | Elvis Costello: Albums ranked. | 15/23 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 28 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 08/08/2025 04:10 | PapaShiz86 | | 79/100 |
50/100 | 03/19/2025 12:45 | BoxFL | | 51/100 |
85/100 | 12/21/2023 02:58 | spigelwii | | 85/100 |
55/100 | 10/04/2023 13:24 | fabm0 | | 59/100 |
70/100 | 05/07/2022 08:04 | LosWochos | | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.8/100, a mean average of 67.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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indieshins 05/27/2018 10:56
I couldn't get into it - but it being Costello, I will probably return to it to see if my opinion changes. But right now, I can't recall a single song off here except Complicated Shadows, and that's because it was already released on All This Useless Beauty way back in '96.
One of Costello's best latter day albums. Some beautiful acoustic tracks, especially the last three or four. Nice to hear, complicated shadows, again. Still with a lot to offer. His best album since, all this useless beauty.
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