The Best Of
by Radiohead
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The Best Of is ranked 17th best out of 25 albums by Radiohead on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Radiohead is OK Computer which is ranked number 1 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 62,830.
(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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The Best Of track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 12/23/2025 04:59 | Olli | 6,755 | 63/100 | |
| 09/09/2025 18:57 | Radiohead76 | 359 | 79/100 | |
| 08/24/2025 07:42 |  nextorgd | 1,169 | 84/100 | |
| 12/08/2024 19:18 | CokeBabies | 529 | 83/100 | |
| 10/20/2024 15:19 | batmansemprepar | 23 | 100/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.6/100, a mean average of 65.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 29.9.
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Tengachaya 01/13/2023 13:55 | #292800
A band whose charms do not come across even when you listen to them on their best albums. The original album, despite being so great...
Got this. Discovered a lot of songs on it from albums I didn't really have any intention of buying. Loved the songs. Bought the albums. Then loved most of the albums. Some not so much. That's why some of us purchase 'Best of' albums first. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.
gidgidi 08/18/2019 14:47 | #241356
Fuck best-of albums and fuck this in particular. Radiohead did not want to release it, and frankly it's really not needed. Go listen to any of their albums, you'll find something for you, it's better than this garbage that's for sure.
The best of Radiohead would in reality consist of:
90% of everything from The Bends through to In Rainbows;
A selection from A Moon Shaped Pool, a couple from each of the (current) bookend albums;
A load of B-sides that didn't even make it to these.
In summary, this is why everyone buys their albums.
An abomination to what Radiohead stands for. Especially since it was released against their will.
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Xxnu99etxX 08/01/2016 15:13 | #172082
Best Of albums shouldn't be allowed on this site.
Great material but why would anyone want a Radiohead "Best Of"? Context people, context.
Every song is great, but it's missing about 100 songs...
Obviously this is just great if you want to hear just anthems, but there's also a cd2 with songs such as True Love Waits, Let Down, Planet Telex and so on.
I see no problem with this album, but generally I always listen to normal albums. One more thing, it is great because there's a Best Of DVD with all their videos from the first six albums. No more Youtube!
makerofbuckets 01/06/2015 05:16 | #130893
I can't even describe with words how obnoxious the problems this album causes are.
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