The Litanies Of Satan
by Diamanda Galás

The Litanies Of Satan by Diamanda Galás
Year: 1982
Overall rank: 26,487th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 40 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1982 (370th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (3,317th)
Award Best albums of all time (26,487th)

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Diamanda Galás bestography

The Litanies Of Satan is ranked 4th best out of 17 albums by Diamanda Galás on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Diamanda Galás is Diamanda Galás which is ranked number 5035 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 277.

Diamanda Galás album bestography « Higher ranked (24,895th)
Plague Mass
This album (26,487th)
The Litanies Of Satan
Lower ranked (31,818th) »
You Must Be Certain Of The Devil

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 26,487th | 1980s rank: 3,317th | 1982 rank: 370th
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2026 arthurbittencourtTop 99 Music Albums of the 1980s94/991
2026 AAL2014Top 54 Music Albums of 198228/543
2025 WasinskiTop 100 Music Albums of 198267/1002
2024cmoshierTop 100 Music Albums of 198296/1000
2024 DommeDamianScaruffi Best Albums of 19828/70 -
2023 Xxnu99etxXMy Least Favourite Albums Of All Time45/100 -
2023 cestuneblagueTop 100 Music Albums of 198288/1001
2023 Xxnu99etxXTop 47 Music Albums of 198247/470
2021 EyeKanFlyNPR: The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (part 2)11/50 -
2020 kaduphemingTop 38 Music Albums of 198219/383
2020 SingingPeasant96RYM chart : Played Out...Unoriginal...Unintere... by Music_Party78/99 -
2019 AfterHoursTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s19/10016
2019 CellarDoorTop 58 Music Albums of 198246/581
2019 OnaterTop 16 Music Albums of 198210/162
2018 arthurbittencourtTop 14 Music Albums of 198211/141
2017 bertranduTop 100 Music Albums of 198259/1002
2016sonicdiscourse1982 To-Do List40/94 -
2015 briggs54Top 31 Music Albums of 198215/313
2013 SquishypuffDaveAlbums for Halloween.10/10 -
2011InsertExpletiveTop 75 Greatest Music Albums57/75 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 20
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 35
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73/100 (from 40 votes)
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From 10/21/2018 12:05 | #222851
Unearthly yelps and screeches from the depths of hell, it sounds like Diamanda Galas is putting an eternal curse on the listener. Very atmospheric and enchanting.
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From 11/16/2017 13:43 | #201440
With unbelievable vocals and a bizarre, unsettling atmosphere, Diamanda Galas' "The Litanies of Satan" is a horrific, darkly funny and extreme album, and it's all the more rewarding for it.
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From 07/04/2009 10:09 | #5062
Like Anthony Braxton, her vocal compositions on Litanies of Satan are complex enough to warrant a 12 minute track entirely of soloing. It’s absolutely terrifying in it’s unabated primacy. Seriously, she makes Meredith Monk sound like a Christian choirgirl (and believe me, I love Meredith). Diamanda screams like she’s being born, or being torn apart very slowly limb by limb. These are the kind of emotions one would only dream of uttering while in the isolation of a rubber padded room. Yet, her one voice sounds like many, as if the tormented souls of generations past are howling wildly in succession, possessing her in chthonic ritual.
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