Night Time
by Killing Joke

Night Time by Killing Joke
Year: 1985
Release date: 1985-02-25
Overall rank: 2,741st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 139 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (35th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (407th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,741st)

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Night Time is ranked 2nd best out of 32 albums by Killing Joke on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Killing Joke is Killing Joke which is ranked number 2237 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 732.

Killing Joke album bestography « Higher ranked (2,237th)
Killing Joke
This album (2,741st)
Night Time
Lower ranked (7,669th) »
Pylon

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Night Time track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Night Time rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,741st | 1980s rank: 407th | 1985 rank: 35th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 2 hours ago).
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2026 RomanelliTop 39 Music Albums of 198518/393
2026JohnnyoGreatest Goth Albums (1 - 100) by Ultimate Record Collection35/100 -
2026UntitledTop 25 Music Albums of 198524/250
2026wizardalienTop 100 Greatest Albums of the 20th Century75/100 -
2026Exist-en-cielTop 77 Music Albums of 198526/773
2026MoondanceTop 100 Music Albums of 198550/1003
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 73 Music Albums of 198530/733
2026 MadhattanJackTop 76 Music Albums of 198519/764
2026 RomanelliMy Overall Chart: 901-100057/100 -
2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 198540/1003
2026matterhornriderTop 70 Music Albums of 198515/704
2026 videoheadcleanerTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s11/10018
2026 cestuneblagueTop 100 Music Albums of 198547/1003
2026saltysurpriseTop 54 Music Albums of 19854/545
2026 videoheadcleanerTop 100 Greatest Music Albums38/10062
2026 ssteveTop 30 Music Albums of 198519/302
2026 Patman360Top 74 Music Albums of 198555/741
2026wizardalienTop 73 Music Albums of the 1980s16/7316
2026 jeremy9Top 52 Music Albums of 198542/521
2026 dihansseTop 46 Music Albums of 19858/464
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 116
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 575
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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 139 votes)
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07/19/2026 17:26 ExTeaSea  Ratings distribution  5,23183/100
 
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04/22/2026 23:17 areminder  Ratings distribution  92580/100
 
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03/13/2026 13:30 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,32470/100
 
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01/29/2026 12:32 Untitled  Ratings distribution  1,74877/100
 
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01/25/2026 23:21 wizardalien  Ratings distribution  86648/100

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 75.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.


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70/100
From 08/26/2024 09:19 | #304979
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55/100
Love Like Blood and Eighties are great. The rest of the tracks are solid, my only criticism is a lot of the tracks are very similar. Good album, surprised this album is ranked so low.
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From 11/23/2016 06:05 | #178939
Eighties how I loved the 80's. The album is decent but nothing really jumps out at you except for Eighties
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The best album by Killing Joke. It contains the perfect merge between their punk image from "What's THIS For?" and the (soon to be) commercial music from "Outside The Gate".
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Rating:  
90/100
Excellent album. Highlight is the monumental Love Like Blood
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Rating:  
80/100
I have to agree that lyrically, "Come As You Are" is a stronger result than "Eighties". This didn't prevent me from enjoying this album.
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From 08/07/2010 23:03 | #14141
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Rating:  
80/100
I'm suprised that I'm the first to rate this, considering the "Eighties/Come As You Are" debacle. In any case, this whole album is the epitome of cool. It's legit. You guys need to go to more goth clubs.
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