Show Your Bones
by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Show Your Bones by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-03-22
Overall rank: 2,213th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 265 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2006 (40th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (362nd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,213th)

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs bestography

Show Your Bones is ranked 3rd best out of 7 albums by Yeah Yeah Yeahs on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs is Fever To Tell which is ranked number 692 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,479.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs album bestography « Higher ranked (958th)
It's Blitz!
This album (2,213th)
Show Your Bones
Lower ranked (3,934th) »
Cool It Down

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Show Your Bones rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,213th | 2000s rank: 362nd | 2006 rank: 40th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 265 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.


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90/100
I like every song. I was expecting it to be their highest ranking. But I see they are rated about the same. Mid 70s.

This band seems to have great guitars, and singing.
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85/100
Their best album imo. Turn Into and Cheated Hearts are brilliant
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100/100
A really mistaken and underestimated album. My favorites are: Phenomena, Cheated Hearts, Dudley and Turn Into. Brilliant album!
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95/100
One of my favourite indi rock albums from the 2000s. Not a weak track and I'm surprised it's not rated much higher considering I'd expect the YYY's to hit a demographic sweet spot on this site.
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65/100
i heard "maps" and couple other of their songs from previous albums and wasn't that impressed. i had chances to pick up "fever to tell" for $4-ish used and passed. Average straight-ahead girl-rock, IMO. They must've added something this time around. I knew it immediately on hearing "Cheated Hearts". Intangible -- a little more melody replaces the undirected energy of former efforts. Some reviews say they've lost sass, but i still hear it. They're just tempering their brashness with a little heart. This album still has a couple songs that fall flat without their previous energy, but the peaks cover these holes enough for them to rise to my #37 spot -- a place i never expected YYYs to be.
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75/100
From 05/13/2012 17:24 | #42199
Solid record.
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70/100
From 04/14/2012 00:49 | #40210
Decent album. Best song: Gold Lion.
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From 08/25/2010 09:31 | #14645
great great great album!!!
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