Life
by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Life by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Year: 1987
Overall rank: 17,719th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 68 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1987 (229th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,362nd)
Award Best albums of all time (17,719th)

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse bestography

Life is ranked 56th best out of 96 albums by Neil Young on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Neil Young is After The Gold Rush which is ranked number 84 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,514.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse album bestography « Higher ranked (17,652nd)
Way Down In The Rust Bucket
This album (17,719th)
Life
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Life

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Overall rank: 17,719th | 1980s rank: 2,362nd | 1987 rank: 229th

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Life ratings

Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 68 votes)
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02/28/2026 15:43 AAL2014  Ratings distribution  3,71575/100
 
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01/19/2026 20:05 spinout  Ratings distribution  3,31981/100
 
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06/20/2025 12:28 davidhuret  Ratings distribution  2,01876/100
 
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08/09/2024 18:47 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,20764/100
 
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05/28/2024 18:11 baz1860  Ratings distribution  22084/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 60.7/100, a mean average of 59.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 59.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.1.

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70/100
From 01/01/2021 21:53 | #263600
Neil não chegou a lugar algum com esse álbum.
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From 06/14/2020 01:59 | #253496
YAWN. I had to stop listening to this more than once and do a lap around my house to try to shake it off. Absolutely no highlights and nothing going for it, Life is more like death. Please don't listen to this. I've only heard a couple things as bad as this.
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65/100
From 04/05/2019 10:43 | #234528
The album is OK, but it´s among his weakest albums.
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