Rock Around The Clock
by Bill Haley And His Comets
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Rock Around The Clock is ranked as the best album by Bill Haley And His Comets.
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Rock Around The Clock 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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Rock Around The Clock rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | arnellarsen | Top 41 Music Albums of 1955 | 11/41 | 4 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 36/100 | 13 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 15 Music Albums of 1955 | 7/15 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 62 Music Albums of 1955 | 7/62 | 5 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 64/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | neilgee | Top 22 Music Albums of 1955 | 9/22 | 3 |
| 2026 | downandout | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 46/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 69 Music Albums of 1955 | 12/69 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 56 Music Albums of 1955 | 7/56 | 4 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 4/100 | 19 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 133 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 810 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/29/2026 20:28 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/20/2026 19:10 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
| ! | 04/25/2026 23:33 |  Robert Anton Wil | 1,149 | 84/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.
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CharlieBarley 04/01/2023 15:16 in What album are you listening to right now?Rock Around The Clock comments
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(To alelsupreme) ...Although delayed some years...
Dude, you came here just to denigrate the album, you need to have a little common sense, I'm not the biggest fan of this album but I know the historical importance in relation to Rock and Roll, and there are at least four great songs here, and and historically it's more relevant than the things of "My Bloody Valentine", "Radiohead" and "Pixies" that you gave high marks, by the way, on one of the best albums of all time as "Slowhand" by Clapton, with very well created songs and a production and sonority well above the average you also denigrated. Anyway, you are one more here on this site who does not have the aptitude to make album evaluations because it takes taste over analysis, between your opinion and nothingness, nothingness seems to be much more consistent.
I like the guitar on this album. On the first four songs Danny Cedrone played the guitar (he died shortly after the recording). The guitar player on the rest of the album is Franny Beecher.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/20/2016 04:55 | #157068 | TOP COMMENT
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For it's time it was quite the thing... now it is very dated. First two tracks are pretty timeless rock n' roll. The rest seems like all the same song except for Birth of the Boogie has some interesting drums at least.
I almost think of it as this: you'd hire this band to entertain/dance to. Great artist... probably not.
"Rock Around the Clock", "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)" stand out from the rest. All the other songs seems like different versions of "Shake, Rattle and Roll". But it's a important album for rock n' roll.
NickVolos TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/30/2021 03:36 | #265284 | TOP COMMENT
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Let's be real. You don't give an album like this a 10 rating. Doing so, denotes ignorance or maybe musical prejudice. You need to transport yourself back to 1955 to understand how groundbreaking this music was at the time.
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