West
by Lucinda Williams
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Lucinda Williams bestography
West is ranked 6th best out of 25 albums by Lucinda Williams on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lucinda Williams is Car Wheels On A Gravel Road which is ranked number 776 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,229.
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West track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
West rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 48 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2007 | 72/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  imimesis | Top 28 Music Albums of 2007 | 15/28 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 801-900 | 3/100 | - |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 83 Music Albums of 2007 | 4/83 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 88 Music Albums of 2007 | 7/88 | 5 |
| 2026 | craab | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 14/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | lookmannohands | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 9/40 | 78 |
| 2026 | Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 86 Music Albums of the 2000s | 29/86 | 13 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2007 | 56/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 38 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 197 | |||
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West ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/22/2025 22:52 |  EyeKanFly | 9,059 | 65/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2022 02:48 | Skerns | 5,215 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/29/2021 15:37 | Tamthebam | 23,329 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.2.
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West forum mentions
Romanelli 10/02/2023 22:22 in What album are you listening to right now? Romanelli 07/14/2022 23:14 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Giant StepsView all forum mentions
West comments
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Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/12/2014 02:40 | #129238 | TOP COMMENT
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Solid album top to bottom. Good songwriting, classic Lucinda vocals and some of the saddest and eeriest songs in her catalog. Songs like "Where Is My Love" and "What If" amongst others are stellar. Basically the opposite of what Romanelli spewed.
Romanelli TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/26/2011 20:33 | #31447 | TOP COMMENT
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Especially considering the quality of Lucinda's body of work before this album, West is total garbage. This sounds like the one record she did NOT sober up for before recording. Lousy songs, horrible writing, awful vocals. One of the more disappoining albums of the decade.
Total garbage? I don't know how anyone can say that about this album. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road probably is better, but I really enjoy West as well.
A solid album but I prefer others. Not in my top 3.
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