Maxinquaye
by Tricky
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Maxinquaye rankings summary
Overall rank: 893rd | 1990s rank: 159th | 1995 rank: 14th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 |  Arthurknight | Top 99 Music Albums of 1995 | 55/99 | 2 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Upcoming Album Club Picks 1 | 94/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 1/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 89 Music Albums of 1995 | 50/89 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1995 | 46/50 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 39/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 32/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 58 Music Albums of 1995 | 7/58 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Bach | Top 12 Music Albums of 1995 | 10/12 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 95/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 384 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,943 | |||
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| ! | 09/14/2026 20:21 | Foxforce5 | 485 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/30/2026 02:48 | ScottJones | 144 | 83/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2026 07:34 | barethman | 207 | 80/100 |
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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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RepoMan 04/18/2014 01:44 | #109514 | TOP COMMENT
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Imagine if Massive attack seriously took to quaaludes. For a year. The next day they swear they are NEVER going to touch that crazy ass shit again because they're paranoid as all fuck, and Tricky just shot a gun at the new guest vocalist because she was talking to another guy. BUT FIRST, you can't waste good drugs, right? So the gang decides to consume the rest of their stash all at once. And then enter the recording studio. The result is this masterpiece of paranoia. The sound of drugs taken for far too long with too little sleep by a monomaniacal musical genius until everything is hazy & suffocated. The thing is, that's just how I like it!
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ButterThumbz TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/20/2012 10:23 | #55500 | TOP COMMENT
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Like being trapped in a hot steamy ventilation duct that's part of some ancient alien biomechanical structure, the purpose of which has long been forgotten... Yeah, like in Alien but more claustrophobic.
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LordMark 12/15/2016 10:16 | #180200 | TOP COMMENT
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The first half is particularly great. While it's definitely not my favourite trip hop album, it clearly had a huge influence on Massive Attack's Mezzanine, and for that, I will always think highly of this debut album.
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HigherThanTheSun 01/26/2012 00:31 | #35893 | TOP COMMENT
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Brilliant album please give it a try it trumps most of what Massive Attack have to offer (and I say that as a massive fan of both).
This album is perfect.
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Untitled TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/10/2022 21:16 | #289561 | TOP COMMENT
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A strong first half that is let down greatly by the slow and boring second half. To start with the positives you have some absolutely fantastic tracks at the start of the record. It starts off with a great song in Overcome and is then followed up by amazing tracks such as Black Steel and Hell Is Around The Corner. All of these songs have fantastic vocals and the beats on them are so intelligent and always get stuck in my head. The start of the record is just so relaxing and it flows so perfectly from song to song. It is a shame that this isn't maintained and you get the final 30 or so minutes of the record feeling extremely drawn out. The sound feels repetitive by this point and you are ready for the album to finish as I found myself constantly being distracted whilst listening. Overall, you can see the influence this record had but the quality just isn't consistent enough for this to be amongst the greats.
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