Not So Soft
by Ani DiFranco
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Ani DiFranco bestography
Not So Soft is ranked 12th best out of 27 albums by Ani DiFranco on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ani DiFranco is Dilate which is ranked number 8308 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 151.
(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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Not So Soft track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Not So Soft rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  philbutrin | Top 77 Music Albums of 1991 | 4/77 | 5 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 69 Music Albums of 1991 | 50/69 | 1 |
| 2015 | philbutrin | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 88/100 | - |
| 2014 | philbutrin | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 52/100 | 10 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 4 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 16 | |||
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Not So Soft ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/15/2022 04:12 |  Arthurknight | 9,590 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/11/2021 18:49 | LosWochos | 47,504 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2020 15:33 | Skerns | 5,160 | 80/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2019 10:50 | mianfei | 1,401 | 62/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2019 19:26 |  TheDude85 | 9,536 | 83/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.8/100, a mean average of 69.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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philbutrin 09/01/2014 16:01 | #120952
in 1992, i lived in Austin, TX, and i attended the SXSW music festival (which wasn't the huge media spectable it is today). one evening i went to a small club to see a singer i liked, and Ani happened to be playing before her. from the moment she started attacking her acoustic guitar with industrial-strength fake fingernails duct-taped onto her fingers, i was fascinated. at the time, Not So Soft (her second album) was her most recent release, and her first on CD, and i remained a fan of her music up through To The Teeth. after that she went in musical directions that didn't resonate with me, but i still love her early work.
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