Eight Arms To Hold You
by Veruca Salt

Eight Arms To Hold You by Veruca Salt
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 13,873rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 35 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1997 (227th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (2,211th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,873rd)

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Veruca Salt bestography

Eight Arms To Hold You is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by Veruca Salt on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Veruca Salt is American Thighs which is ranked number 11966 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 97.

Veruca Salt album bestography « Higher ranked (11,966th)
American Thighs
This album (13,873rd)
Eight Arms To Hold You
Lower ranked (13,873rd) »
Eight Arms To Hold You

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 13,873rd | 1990s rank: 2,211th | 1997 rank: 227th

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 35 votes)
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65/100
 
02/13/2026 08:58 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,09373/100
 
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12/11/2025 03:49 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,54573/100
 
75/100
 
11/20/2025 01:08 culwin  Ratings distribution  1,38975/100
 
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08/13/2025 23:31 traistboar  Ratings distribution  1,61779/100
 
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03/18/2025 18:21 BoxFL  Ratings distribution  2,58151/100

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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.6/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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90/100
From 10/02/2024 18:53 | #305499
Better than their debut in just about every way. Full of hooks and lyrically playful. The first four tracks alone are straight up bangers. With David Bowie is pop-rock-bliss.
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From 03/15/2015 21:24 | #136976
Actually has more punch than American Thighs, but they had lost all the hype by this point. An above-average alt-rock album.
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