Mob Rules (studio album) by Black Sabbath
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Mob Rules is ranked 8th best out of 47 albums by Black Sabbath on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Black Sabbath is Paranoid which is ranked number 50 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 19,124.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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95/100  | 08/18/2025 15:16 | steve397 | | 76/100 |
90/100 | 08/16/2025 21:54 | Ilor | | 77/100 |
65/100 | 07/31/2025 13:38 |  Tamthebam | | 69/100 |
60/100 | 07/30/2025 17:12 | thepardunk | | 69/100 |
75/100 | 07/23/2025 07:50 |  LedZep | | 79/100 |
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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 75.5/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Squonk007 06/03/2024 18:24
One of my favourite heavy rock albums. Great anthems and Dio has the voice to compliment the music.
Probably my favorite Sabbath album after Paranoid. Like most Sabbath albums, there's nothing bad here but it's all over the place, from great to just mediocre. Tracks 1,5,6,8 are the best for me, and the rest brings the average down to 8/10.
Jboy56 02/13/2024 17:25
Not bad, actually worth a many revisits.
Good heavy metal album, some bangers and some boring stuff, there are some great riffs. For me it's quite similar to Heaven&Hell but slightly less consistent.
Not up to the caliber of 'Heaven and Hell' but Dio's second effort still produces a solid bit of work. Goes up and down in the pace and tempo of the songs making it a bit of a mish mash as far as flow goes. But still a great album. I rate this above any of Dio's solo albums except for 'Holy Diver'
llibnanoon 08/05/2020 15:53
This probably would not have been any better with Ozzy on board. Rating (73.89)
This comment will now outdate my comments about Heaven and Hell and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath whereby I stated that they were my top Sabbath albums. Without a doubt, this for me is top of the tree. The vocal delivery by RJD coupled with the overall musicianship which includes the best guitar work and drumming I have heard on any of the other Black Sabbath albums seals my decision. Every track is class, some with a real sinister atmosphere like 'Sign of the Southern Cross' and 'Falling off the Edge of the World'. There are equally, the really heavy workouts like the title track and 'Voodoo'. The sleeve art lets the album down a bit, had that been more scarey it may have encouraged more people to buy it when it was first released. It has taken me ages to track down a decent copy on vinyl but was most definitely well worth the wait!
The last decent Sabbath album. Dio would move on the bigger and better things after this one. "Sign of the Southern Cross" "Mob Rules" and "Over and Over" are the standouts for me.
Goliath 02/11/2018 20:42
Better than Heaven and Hell, a classic album, no filler.
Fischman 11/30/2016 20:29
It was flat out impossible for the Sabs to duplicate the heights achieved on Heaven and Hell, but Mob Rules is still a most worthy successor. In one way, it actually outpaces its predecessor inasmuch as it has more variety of sound and presentation. Almost every cut is a winner and two of the very best in the entire Sabbath catalog are oft overlooked deep cuts; the hard hitting 'Slipping Away,' and the positively epic and wicked 'Falling of the Edge of the World.'
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