Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt
by John Frusciante

Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt by John Frusciante
Year: 1994
Overall rank: 3,425th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 91 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1994 (72nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (568th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,425th)

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John Frusciante bestography

Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by John Frusciante on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by John Frusciante is Shadows Collide With People which is ranked number 3217 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 467.

John Frusciante album bestography « Higher ranked (3,217th)
Shadows Collide With People
This album (3,425th)
Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt
Lower ranked (4,403rd) »
Curtains

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 3,425th | 1990s rank: 568th | 1994 rank: 72nd
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2026 SomethingSpecialTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s70/1006
2026 HaydenTop 50 Music Albums of 199431/502
2026 arthurbittencourtTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s6/10019
2026 covecoveTop 100 Music Albums of 199454/1002
2026 arthurbittencourtTop 100 Greatest Music Albums32/10069
2025 seb7Top 30 Music Albums of 199428/301
2025 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of 199475/1001
2025PapaShiz86Top 100 Music Albums of 199430/1004
2025 Xxnu99etxXTop 84 Music Albums of 199419/844
2025 SomethingSpecialJohn Frusciante Ranked6/14 -
2025xXhermitXxTop 49 Greatest Music Albums1/4990
2025 SomethingSpecialTop 29 Music Albums of 199418/292
2025 Repo1994: Even More Gems27/36 -
2024 JoeingramTop 100 Greatest Music Albums67/10027
2024BrageHaavikTop 17 Greatest Music Albums12/1728
2024 meccaleccaTop 71 Music Albums of 199441/712
2024 DommeDamianScaruffi Best Albums of 199443/100 -
2023glynspsaTop 100 Music Albums of 199459/1002
2023 srogers900Top 19 Music Albums of 199419/190
2023LosWochosDie 50 besten Soloalben by Musikexpress.de (07/2021)25/50 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 48
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 433
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78/100 (from 91 votes)
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10/10/2025 03:05 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,11133/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.4/100, a mean average of 78.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.

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From 02/02/2022 05:49 | #280448
Unlike anything else I've ever heard. Special.
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From 09/17/2019 16:46 | #242728
Frusciante can write catchy tunes like only few other muscians can, he proved it times and times again, but this album is not about that. This album is about sound exploring, its sometimes ugly its sometimes experimental, but thats the point - only few other artists(radiohead, bjork etc.) have a courage to put out something like this knowing that most of their audience probably wont understand their intention. This album is for anybody who is fed up with predictable solutions and can appriciate thinking outside the box , even if it doesnt sound pretty or "right".
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From 08/11/2019 14:29 | #241061
This album is nothing short of elite. Frusciante’s guitar and vocals are perfectly representative of the mental state he was in during the recordings and it makes for immersive listening.
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From 12/24/2017 03:43 | #203802
i truly believe that drugs are a passage too expand the human mind to mingle around to another plains other than the concious one. and thus, i truly believe this man achieved another level of humanity, and put all he learned of that in his music. This is a vestige of the limits of the mind mankind has achieved
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From 03/30/2017 06:52 | #188393
All of the untitled tracks are fantastic.
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From 03/26/2017 00:54 | #188090
Frusciante's best album by far and one of the most underrated of all time.
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From 05/14/2016 14:14 | #165947
This is my all time favourite album. The layers of guitar, the ingenuity of instrumental, the pain of the lyrics and the feeling of the voice are all perfect in my opinion. If you are not willing to give this album 3 or 4 listens, don't bother. You will not like it the first time, however, if you have a few hours to spend, then go right ahead and you may find one of your favourite albums of all time. I believe that the nature of genius is not supreme intelligence, being able to a nice bit of maths in your head, or spout a load of polysyllabic words that sound impressive. I believe that the nature of genius is being able to create something that people just can't understand where it came from. A bit of artwork, music, literature or something where you find yourself thinking 'Where the hell did that come from?'. This album certainly falls into this category.
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