Sons And Fascination (studio album)
by Simple Minds

Sons And Fascination by Simple Minds
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 15,715th   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 48 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (235th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,141st)
Award Best albums of all time (15,715th)

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Simple Minds bestography

Sons And Fascination is ranked 9th best out of 26 albums by Simple Minds on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Simple Minds is New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) which is ranked number 770 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,257.

Simple Minds album bestography « Higher ranked (15,256th)
Real To Real Cacophony
This album (15,715th)
Sons And Fascination
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(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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Sons And Fascination rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 15,715th | 1980s rank: 2,141st | 1981 rank: 235th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 48 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.

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