Concrete Blonde
by Concrete Blonde

Concrete Blonde by Concrete Blonde
Year: 1986
Overall rank: 7,191st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 24 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (99th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,033rd)
Award Best albums of all time (7,191st)

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Concrete Blonde bestography

Concrete Blonde is ranked 3rd best out of 10 albums by Concrete Blonde on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Concrete Blonde is Bloodletting which is ranked number 3600 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 409.

Concrete Blonde album bestography « Higher ranked (4,251st)
Mexican Moon
This album (7,191st)
Concrete Blonde
Lower ranked (7,721st) »
Walking In London

(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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Concrete Blonde rankings

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Overall rank: 7,191st | 1980s rank: 1,033rd | 1986 rank: 99th

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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 24 votes)
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09/11/2025 19:59 Olli  Ratings distribution  6,75563/100
 
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08/19/2025 12:47 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,20436/100
 
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08/08/2025 21:22 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,03773/100
 
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01/25/2025 12:40 jleast01  Ratings distribution  52384/100
 
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01/23/2025 23:26 brent13  Ratings distribution  1,89269/100

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95/100
From 10/25/2020 14:31 | #259772
Revisited this album after 15 months and I had to increase my rating from 85/100 to 95/100. While Concrete Blonde were just developing their "sound" here it is still a remarkably awesome "sound" nonetheless. Tremendous consistency and Johnette Napolitano is one my all-time favorite vocalists. Love the entire Paisley underground package. You can't go wrong with Concrete Blonde!
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From 02/26/2019 03:41 | #232640
Well this album is criminally underrated (or more accurately, probably overlooked). Maybe I'm biased because it's the best album by my favorite band. I used to think Bloodletting was their best album, but I was wrong. Every track here is gold. The only "weakness", if you want to call it that, is the True instrumental, but it is what it is. The other thing that stands out is how ahead of their time CB were. This album sounds like something from 1993, not 1986 - it took the band several years to catch up to their own sound with Mexican Moon...
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