Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
by Ol' Dirty Bastard
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Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version is ranked as the best album by Ol' Dirty Bastard.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 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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| ! | 04/16/2026 19:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,288 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/24/2026 08:33 | Leginlists | 3,744 | 83/100 |
| ! | 03/11/2026 10:54 | Kettwig | 1,346 | 90/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2025 21:12 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 11/16/2025 04:20 | juanr1096 | 6,203 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.5.
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I love ODB the intro is a bit too long but other than that i have no complaints
LebowskiRams 11/05/2020 03:03 | #260201 | TOP COMMENT
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Runs a little too long but collects itself in time to stick the landing
Gritty, funny, funky, and memorable all rolled into one toxic brew. A hazy crazy mashup of funk soul comedy and hip hop creating a masterpiece of the genre and my personal favorite Wu album. A truly classic from the cover art through the songs it contains.
Graeme2 12/23/2017 10:01 | #203760 | TOP COMMENT
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Maybe I should listen to this again but apart form the classics of shimmy shimmy and Brooklyn zoo, I've never found it that great.
PsychologistHD 06/22/2016 21:43 | #169510
Disappointed by lack of hype in these comments. One of the best Wu albums.
"My beats are slammin' from the rugged programmin'!"
i was way more entertained than I thought I would be. 3rd favorite wu tang solo album
junodog4 05/15/2014 04:15 | #111867
'Let me go, I'm a role model'...
A schizophrenic character study from the mind of one of the most depraved, unintelligible, insane rappers to ever live. It's alternately shocking, heartfelt, and banging. Probably my favorite feature of the album (no small feat) is the use of repetition of entire phrases, even choruses of previous songs. If you thought Kanye was the first rapper crazy or stupid enough to sample himself, you were wrong. It was that Ol' Dirty Bastard, the hobo junkie king of rap.
ProfessorSquid 05/26/2012 05:03 | #43013 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is vastly underrated on this site. It's not even in the top 100 of the year it was released. I haven't looked at the entire 1995 chart, but surely this one deserves a spot.
Norman Bates 08/14/2010 16:39 | #14304
Excellent album. Standouts are "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" and "Brooklyn Zoo", but it's very good all the way.
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