Brotherhood
by New Order

Brotherhood by New Order
Year: 1986
Release date: 1986-09-29
Overall rank: 1,800th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 313 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (23rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (273rd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,800th)

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New Order bestography

Brotherhood is ranked 6th best out of 31 albums by New Order on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by New Order is Power, Corruption & Lies which is ranked number 253 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,217.

New Order album bestography « Higher ranked (1,614th)
Movement
This album (1,800th)
Brotherhood
Lower ranked (3,449th) »
Get Ready

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Brotherhood track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Brotherhood rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,800th | 1980s rank: 273rd | 1986 rank: 23rd  Overall chart history
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Brotherhood ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 313 votes)
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08/28/2026 02:47 Melway94  Ratings distribution  11883/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.


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Brotherhood comments

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75/100
From 10/10/2024 11:21 | #305593
Quite classic, just okay (Edited)
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From 08/23/2019 20:16 | #241605
75/100

Dissapointed by this albums , his past 2 albums are Excellent, cant relate to this
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70/100
From 03/09/2019 15:42 | #233313
Best track: "Bizarre Love Triangle"
Weakest track: "Broken Promise"
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70/100
From 09/03/2018 22:54 | #220540
A lot more interesting ideas than on Low-Life. They managed to stay relevant.
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Rating:  
90/100
God, Brotherhood is so well-written that, yeah, the production is a bit muddy, but track-for-track, it's incredibly solid. Weirdly, the best and most famous song from the record "Bizarre Love Triangle" doesn't really fit, but who am I to argue with a great track?
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