Rather Ripped
by Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth bestography
Rather Ripped is ranked 9th best out of 42 albums by Sonic Youth on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sonic Youth is Daydream Nation which is ranked number 74 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,134.
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Rather Ripped track list
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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| 06/05/2026 03:58 | Exist-en-ciel | 11,412 | 70/100 | |
| 03/21/2026 18:14 | mash | 1,482 | 89/100 | |
| 02/28/2026 00:15 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 | |
| 01/14/2026 09:53 | Leginlists | 3,593 | 82/100 | |
| 12/22/2025 20:58 |  szoze | 328 | 89/100 |
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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 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.
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Really good except for Sleeping around. Probably the worst song Sonic Youth ever did. I can't help but think Thurston Moore is telling on himself in this song, and helps explain in songform why Thurston and Kim are no more, and subsequently, Sonic Youth.
With that said, Reena and Incinerate is a great 1-2punch in the beginning and the highlight of the album
teague 07/28/2020 02:23 | #256330
As far as Sonic Youth albums go, yes, Rather Ripped is one of their more “commercial”. Rather than being frantic, unstable, and frenzied like Bad Moon Rising, Rather Ripped goes for the more laid back, relaxed, and mellow approach. And it works very well for the New York noise rock giants. Incinerate is one of their biggest hits, obviously, if you even can or want to call it that. But the rest of the album has a lot to offer as well. Again, Sonic Youth come through with nothing less than fantastic.
Good album.
Favorite tracks: Incinerate
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Has become a favourite sonic youth album. Very very good indeed
For Sonic Youth, this is just a straight-up pop album. It's not bad either, there are a couple gems here and there, but some of these songs are suffer from being forgettable.
Best Tracks: Incinerate, What A Waste, Pink Steam
None of these tracks are really that bad, but Turquoise Boy is just boring and forgettable
craola 09/10/2015 16:30 | #149446
the version of this that I have has a thirteenth track on it, helen lundeberg, which is the only track on this album i'm not a fan of. outside that track, this is a great album and is easily among the band's best.
A good listen to long time Sonic Youth fans. Dont know if it will mean much to other casual listeners. Incinerate is so good.
After Murray Street and Sonic Nurse it's a solidly good album.
Antonio-Pedro 02/09/2014 12:25 | #102662
The Last sonic youth Breath, After, they couldn't continue making amazing stuff.Great Songs in there, some remembering their glorious moment. and another showing their most sensitive side
More accesible than other SY stuff. In my view, the best SY album since Dirty.
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