Sunburn
by Blake Babies
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Blake Babies bestography
Sunburn is ranked as the best album by Blake Babies.
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Sunburn track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Sunburn rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 88/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1990 | 47/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 91 Music Albums of 1990 | 22/91 | 4 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 601-700 | 19/100 | - |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau: Dean's List 1990 | 60/67 | - |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 42 Music Albums of 1990 | 15/42 | 3 |
| 2023 | TonyF12345 | Top 29 Music Albums of 1990 | 10/29 | 3 |
| 2023 |  TheDude85 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1990 | 72/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 21 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 43 | |||
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Sunburn ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/30/2025 04:19 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2025 14:08 | cicadelic | 14,185 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 03:19 | TodFitz | 27,368 | 63/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 13% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
Sunburn forum mentions
Romanelli 06/14/2024 14:52 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Ashes & Fire Romanelli 11/23/2023 19:20 in What album are you listening to right now? Romanelli 06/09/2014 14:53 in BEA ULL RomanelliSunburn comments
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philbutrin 09/01/2014 16:39 | #120970
this is a noisy, jangly, energetic slice of alt/college rock that got a decent amount of attention back in 1990. it had the interplay of guy/girl vocals from John Strohm and Juliana Hatfield, who would both go on to lengthy careers after Blake Babies. juliana had her moment in the pop spotlight with "spin the bottle" and is still making music. john formed the bands Antenna and Velo-Deluxe before recording some albums under his own name and then becoming an entertainment industry lawyer.
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