Just Testing
by Wishbone Ash

Just Testing by Wishbone Ash
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-01-18
Overall rank: 6,730th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 28 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (113th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (955th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,730th)

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Wishbone Ash bestography

Just Testing is ranked 7th best out of 46 albums by Wishbone Ash on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Wishbone Ash is Argus which is ranked number 937 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,858.

Wishbone Ash album bestography « Higher ranked (5,584th)
Wishbone Four
This album (6,730th)
Just Testing
Lower ranked (6,963rd) »
Live Dates Volume Two

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Just Testing track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Just Testing rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,730th | 1980s rank: 955th | 1980 rank: 113th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 28 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.


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85/100
A forgotten gem for me and all people who want to hear excellent guitar work. Definitely worth further revisits..
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Very solid stuff and probably the last of the really good Wishbone Ash studio albums before the slump of the 80s.
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