The Way Of The Vaselines
by The Vaselines
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The Way Of The Vaselines is ranked as the best album by The Vaselines.
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The Way Of The Vaselines track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Way Of The Vaselines rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 57 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 99/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1992 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 48/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 29 Music Albums of 1992 | 10/29 | 3 |
| 2026 | Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 1992 | 8/50 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1992 | 34/50 | 2 |
| 2026 |  LedZep | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 17/100 | 78 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 52 Music Albums of 1992 | 48/52 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1992 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Elauqsapid | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 58/99 | 8 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 54 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 360 | |||
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The Way Of The Vaselines ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/09/2026 00:14 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,056 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/25/2026 16:44 | Proto | 4,318 | 33/100 |
| ! | 11/08/2025 03:52 |  pranafilms | 245 | 91/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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The Way Of The Vaselines forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/19/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5440): By LedZep BestEverAlbums 08/06/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5396): By pranafilms
neilgee 03/26/2026 08:08 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)The Way Of The Vaselines comments
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tbakeman 01/04/2013 14:45 | #60063 | TOP COMMENT
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I tend to not think of this as a compilation, but rather all the songs the Vaseline's produced at one time. Fantastic album from beautiful songwriters.
Jimmy Dread TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/08/2011 11:31 | #30133 | TOP COMMENT
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Oh how I wish I could include this in my chart but due to self-inflicted tight judgement criteria (i.e. no compilations) I alas cannot. Which is a pity, as The Vaselines were f'ing amazing. I say were, as I saw them at XOYO last year and their new stuff is pretty dire in comparison. Highlight is undoubtedly 'Dying For It', which whilst in hospital whacked out on morphine due to meningitis and waiting for an MRI scan I could have sworn the nurse operating the machine was playing. I was going to strike up a conversation, and wish I had because they spent 10 minutes pumping Elton Fucking John into my earholes whilst I was in this godforsaken tube of terror.
Good collection of songs. I had to check them out after i heard Nirvana's versions of Son Of A Gun and Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam. These songs along with Teenage Superstars are my personal favorites.
The band that inspired so many great and diverse bands. This is a brilliant album with so many great songs on it.
A great collection of songs like "Son Of A Gun", "Teenage Superstars" and "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam".
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