Truth And Soul
by Fishbone
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Truth And Soul is ranked as the best album by Fishbone.
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Truth And Soul track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Truth And Soul rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 56/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1988 | 98/100 | - |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 32 Music Albums of 1988 | 28/32 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Pastiche | Top 28 Music Albums of 1988 | 22/28 | 1 |
| 2026 | AledJames | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 55/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 60 Music Albums of 1988 | 58/60 | 0 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top 60r albums (60), #0101-0200* | 67/99 | - |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 36/100 | 13 |
| 2025 | MaxStorm98 | Top 51 Music Albums of 1988 | 48/51 | 0 |
| 2025 |  foxytreeko | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 89/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 46 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 127 | |||
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Truth And Soul ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/17/2026 17:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,701 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2026 12:15 | AledJames | 1,694 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2026 15:45 | Neil_71 | 147 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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The independent record store where I worked during college was the place where I first heard a tremendous amount of great music. I wouldn't say we listened to a lot of ska revival, but the owner of the store was a huge fan of most any slap bass-driven alternative rock: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus, even the Spin Doctors. Not all that stuff has aged well. But for me, Fishbone still sounds as fresh and innovative as they did then. I love how easily they move between the rapid-fire ska freakouts of, say, "Subliminal Fascism" to the acoustic ballad "Change." This is a skillful, deeply soulful album, with nods to every genre from sixties soul to seventies punk to eighties reggae. Seeing Fishbone live a decade later made me appreciate them that much more, as they managed to get a roomful of white people in Asheville, North Carolina, to dance like it was the last night of their lives.
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