A Little Madness To Be Free
by The Saints
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A Little Madness To Be Free is ranked 9th best out of 21 albums by The Saints on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Saints is (I'm) Stranded which is ranked number 2754 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 571.
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A Little Madness To Be Free track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
A Little Madness To Be Free rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 6 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 89 Music Albums of 1984 | 84/89 | 0 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 52 Music Albums of 1984 | 38/52 | 1 |
| 2026 | Repo | Micro-Genres: Aussie Rock | 6/9 | - |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 41 Music Albums of 1984 | 31/41 | 1 |
| 2025 | rkm | Top 37 Music Albums of 1984 | 24/37 | 2 |
| 2024 | cronadigallina | Top 99 Music Albums of 1984 | 77/99 | 1 |
| 2023 |  Brad1770 | Top 12 Music Albums of 1984 | 8/12 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 12 | |||
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A Little Madness To Be Free ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/02/2025 00:18 | stangetzaway | 2,313 | 84/100 |
| ! | 01/13/2023 16:58 | LosWochos | 47,365 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2022 01:43 | Brad1770 | 1,617 | 66/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2021 23:38 | Moondance | 20,768 | 72/100 |
| ! | 12/03/2020 20:43 | TodFitz | 27,374 | 63/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.6/100, a mean average of 71.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 7.0.
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Brad1770 05/30/2022 01:59 | #285804
When ‘A Little Madness to Be Free’ came out in 1984 it had been a full 11 years since the early germ of The Saints began their own music revolution. And it shows. Long gone are Ed Kuepper et al with The Saints simply a vehicle for singer Chris Bailey at this point and the punk chords replaced with a denser, more layered direction which includes brass, strings and lush acoustic guitars setting the scene for Baileys masterpiece the devastating ‘All Fools Day’ which would see release in 1986
‘A Little Madness To Be Free’ remains the hidden gem in The Saints catalogue
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