Walking On Locusts
by John Cale
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John Cale bestography
Walking On Locusts is ranked 23rd best out of 42 albums by John Cale on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by John Cale is Paris 1919 which is ranked number 768 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,243.
(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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Walking On Locusts track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Walking On Locusts rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 79 Music Albums of 1996 | 10/79 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 95/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | Johnnyo | Greatest alums of the 90's (101 - 200) by U R C | 96/100 | - |
| 2022 |  flamingyesdept | John Cale's Albums Ranked | 7/15 | - |
| 2018 |  Crumpet | Top 11 Music Albums of the 1990s | 9/11 | 5 |
| 2015 | platus | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 69/100 | 6 |
| 1996 | Rolling Stone Deutschland | Die Alben des Jahres 1996 | 1/78 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 25 | |||
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Walking On Locusts ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/25/2023 15:52 | platus | 5,876 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/23/2023 12:01 |  Tamthebam | 23,296 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/01/2023 08:12 | cicadelic | 14,010 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.0/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 7.7.
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Crumpet 05/22/2018 15:07 | #215432
This album is similar to Cale’s later album Hobosapiens, a pop experiment that may miss the mark sometimes, but when it hits, it hits hard. The best songs on here are the last 3 tracks and “So Much for Love”. I’d quite like a mixtape that contains the best tracks from this album and the best tracks from Hobosapiens.
Walking on Locusts is a triumph, and I would recommend it to any Cale fan.
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