Nine Lives (studio album)
by REO Speedwagon

Nine Lives by REO Speedwagon
Year: 1979
Overall rank: 28,203rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 20 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1979 (314th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (3,173rd)
Award Best albums of all time (28,203rd)
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REO Speedwagon bestography

Nine Lives is ranked 6th best out of 22 albums by REO Speedwagon on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by REO Speedwagon is Hi Infidelity which is ranked number 3701 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 392.

REO Speedwagon album bestography « Higher ranked (23,947th)
The Hits
This album (28,203rd)
Nine Lives
Lower ranked (29,402nd) »
Good Trouble

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Nine Lives track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 20 votes)
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09/29/2025 08:12 Johnnyo  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 9,46377/100
 
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08/02/2025 11:38 videoheadcleaner  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 12,13885/100
 
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02/08/2025 06:51 Fevernova  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 3,13582/100
 
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10/22/2023 15:23 MetalMan67  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,83171/100
 
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09/25/2023 19:10 FreakWolfenstein  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 3,96971/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.6/100, a mean average of 69.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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75/100
From 01/12/2022 16:22
This is pretty regular late 70 rock, but still not as bad you might think, Not bad at all.
Sonically very good and some songs are good rockers eg. Back on the Road again,
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From 12/27/2018 21:32
Generic arena rock album sandwiched in between REO's last legit album and their first sellout album.
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