White Light White Heat White Trash
by Social Distortion
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Social Distortion bestography
White Light White Heat White Trash is ranked 2nd best out of 14 albums by Social Distortion on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Social Distortion is Social Distortion which is ranked number 2911 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 532.
(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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White Light White Heat White Trash track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
White Light White Heat White Trash rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 43 Music Albums of 1996 | 5/43 | 5 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 99/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Dankel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 1/100 | 20 |
| 2026 | Dankel | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 10/100 | 84 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 77/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 |  Larcx13 | Top 48 Music Albums of 1996 | 16/48 | 3 |
| 2026 |  RasmV | Top 34 Music Albums of 1996 | 7/34 | 4 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 80 Music Albums of 1996 | 22/80 | 4 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 37 Music Albums of 1996 | 3/37 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 67 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 357 | |||
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White Light White Heat White Trash ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/03/2026 16:44 | covecove | 6,705 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/02/2026 02:05 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 06/13/2026 22:50 | LosWochos | 47,530 | 75/100 |
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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 75.3/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.
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White Light White Heat White Trash forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/15/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5374): By Dankel
pedro1976 01/06/2023 15:35 in What album are you listening to right now?White Light White Heat White Trash comments
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There is nothing that could be "better" on this album. (Edited)
Dankel 11/18/2017 09:21 | #201541 | TOP COMMENT
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This is, I think, Social Distortions, most hard rocking album. There are some great songs on here, The album starts with Dear Lover and does not let up, no filler on this album.
A slight departure from their classic sound, this is rawer, but very enjoyable and gorgeous as always. Could have been better toward the end.
VADERBREWING 07/26/2011 03:53 | #24861 | TOP COMMENT
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Every time I play with this someone invariably will say, "this is awesome".
Punk rock have never been better and probably never will
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