Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
by Killing Joke
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Killing Joke bestography
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns is ranked 4th best out of 32 albums by Killing Joke on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Killing Joke is Killing Joke which is ranked number 2254 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 727.
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Brighter Than A Thousand Suns track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1986 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 89 Music Albums of 1986 | 46/89 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Arthurknight | Top 99 Music Albums of 1986 | 67/99 | 2 |
| 2026 | cronadigallina | Top 99 Music Albums of 1986 | 95/99 | 0 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 42/100 | 12 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 50 Music Albums of 1986 | 45/50 | 1 |
| 2026 |  NickVolos | Top 99 Music Albums of 1986 | 13/99 | 4 |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 1986 | 5/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1986 | 95/100 | - |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 61 Music Albums of 1986 | 40/61 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 41 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 152 | |||
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Brighter Than A Thousand Suns ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/08/2025 18:06 | iammaudy | 271 | 94/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2025 16:39 | RemainInLight | 3,748 | 35/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2025 07:11 | Rafion | 938 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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NoisyBeast 08/13/2016 03:23 in What album are you listening to right now?Brighter Than A Thousand Suns comments
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Adorations and Love Of The Masses are the best tracks, not that the rest of the album isn't good too, but those are the best two tracks.
Killing Joke have done some great albums but this is unlike anything else in their catalogue. More commercial, more produced, damn! just more dancey. Complete surprise but classic none-the-less. Great live band as well. (Edited)
Secondsoul 12/22/2012 16:51 | #58587 | TOP COMMENT
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Top album. Lots of really good tracks on this.
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