Lament (studio album)
by Ultravox

Lament by Ultravox
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 8,108th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 61 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (122nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,184th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,108th)
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Ultravox bestography

Lament is ranked 5th best out of 17 albums by Ultravox on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ultravox is Vienna which is ranked number 2474 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 642.

Ultravox album bestography « Higher ranked (5,635th)
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Lament track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Lament ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 61 votes)
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05/06/2025 20:15 dihansse  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,18175/100
 
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04/24/2025 09:53 JamesMowbray  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,10470/100
 
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11/28/2024 03:43 slatsheit  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,04181/100
 
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10/04/2024 00:43 LT228  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 23886/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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55/100
From 03/09/2019 14:59
Best track: "White China"
Weakest track: "One Small Day"
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From 11/13/2014 18:51
These guys could do little wrong for me, personally thought this was a strong and consistent set of songs, nothing would have been out of place on a more trendy record by Talk Talk, for eg. Great musicianship and not over produced. Helps it stand up thirty years later.
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