Approved By The Motors (studio album) by The Motors

Approved By The Motors by The Motors
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 18,144th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 14 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (244th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (2,359th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,144th)
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The Motors bestography

Approved By The Motors is ranked 2nd best out of 4 albums by The Motors on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Motors is The Motors which is ranked number 16857 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 64.

The Motors album bestography « Higher ranked (16,857th) This album (18,144th) Lower ranked (103,318th) »
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 14 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.7/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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From 07/04/2020 06:58
My album rating is for the first ten tracks only, as is on my original LP (that got thrashed in the 70's!). There were so many awesome party tracks on this album, some 40+ years later and I still can't sit still when playing it. I felt The Motors deserved an awful lot more success in the charts than they got. Real shame they only lasted 3 albums.
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