White Light, White Heat, White Trash (studio album) by Social Distortion

White Light, White Heat, White Trash by Social Distortion
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 4,464th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 81 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (89th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (753rd)
Award Best albums of all time (4,464th)
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Social Distortion bestography

White Light, White Heat, White Trash is ranked 2nd best out of 11 albums by Social Distortion on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Social Distortion is Social Distortion which is ranked number 2971 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 512.

Social Distortion album bestography « Higher ranked (2,971st) This album (4,463rd) Lower ranked (4,910th) »
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White Light, White Heat, White Trash track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 81 votes)
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07/18/2025 15:44 Milhaud  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,39769/100
 
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07/27/2024 17:14 Banner  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,85980/100
 
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09/10/2023 19:34 Larcx13  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,80775/100

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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, 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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From 10/13/2023 11:34
There is nothing that could be "better" on this album.
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90/100
From 11/18/2017 09:21
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.
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From 08/11/2015 13:12
A slight departure from their classic sound, this is rawer, but very enjoyable and gorgeous as always. Could have been better toward the end.
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80/100
From 07/26/2011 03:53
Every time I play with this someone invariably will say, "this is awesome".
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95/100
From 03/17/2009 04:31
Punk rock have never been better and probably never will
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