Bridges To Babylon
by The Rolling Stones
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Bridges To Babylon is ranked 33rd best out of 105 albums by The Rolling Stones on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Rolling Stones is Exile On Main St. which is ranked number 49 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,205.
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Bridges To Babylon track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Bridges To Babylon rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | F2LF: Rolling Stones | 10/27 | - |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 44 Music Albums of 1997 | 40/44 | 1 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 60 Music Albums of 1997 | 58/60 | 0 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (66), #0001-0100* | 7/78 | - |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 47/100 | 11 |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Ranking: the Rolling Stones' studio albums | 23/25 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1997 | 47/100 | - |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 62 Music Albums of 1997 | 23/62 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1997 | 49/100 | - |
| 2026 | ExTeaSea | Top 93 Music Albums of 1997 | 11/93 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 82 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 149 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/24/2026 16:49 | matterhornrider | 5,208 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2026 01:29 |  hoyquarlow | 541 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/28/2026 16:15 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,315 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.3/100, a mean average of 63.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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dihansse 07/05/2023 19:46 in My discoveries per yearBridges To Babylon comments
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The follow up to voodoo lounge is still nothing special, but it's an improvement on the previous album. It's starts off with another lazy rocker, flip the switch, which is almost stones by numbers, but it's followed by anybody seen my baby, which is better, a smoky, sultry groover which has been credited to k.d Lang and her co-writer as well as Jagger-Richards because apparently it rips off Lang's constant craving. All right, it sounds a bit like it, but not that much. Other highlights are the big ballad, already over me, Keith's reggae workout, you don't have to mean it, and the biblical rocker saint of me. Like voodoo lounge, it feels way overlong, with too many forgetful throaways. The ending though is lovely, with Keith's, how can i stop. Beautiful. It's a great end to an ok album.
Pretty good, waaaaaaaaay better than Voodoo Lounge from a few years prior.
Best song(s): Anybody Seen My Baby; Out of Control
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/11/2017 23:27 | #182311 | TOP COMMENT
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Not a great album, but it shouldn't be so far behind the likes of Voodoo Lounge.
ExTeaSea TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/05/2018 20:58 | #219270 | TOP COMMENT
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Underappreciated Stones album! Even like it more than Voodoo Lounge and Bigger Bang.
Might be their worst album. Sounds awful and the soundwriting is uninspired. The riff on Too tight is the only moment I relly dig about it.
Too much bad songs too. In former Stones 'bad albums' the worst were forgettable & average; here the bad songs are really bad.
And on top of that it's really long and boring wich makes the overall album rating lower than the average of the songs.
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