Pleasant Dreams
by Ramones

Pleasant Dreams by Ramones
Year: 1981
Release date: 1981-07-20
Overall rank: 3,890th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 117 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (66th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (570th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,890th)

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Ramones bestography

Pleasant Dreams is ranked 7th best out of 28 albums by Ramones on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ramones is Ramones which is ranked number 227 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,917.

Ramones album bestography « Higher ranked (3,750th)
It's Alive
This album (3,890th)
Pleasant Dreams
Lower ranked (6,281st) »
Too Tough To Die

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,890th | 1980s rank: 570th | 1981 rank: 66th

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Pleasant Dreams ratings

Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 117 votes)
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04/15/2026 20:13 Jantje  Ratings distribution  66575/100
 
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04/06/2026 05:29 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,64770/100
 
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12/11/2025 21:50 kinginsomniac12  Ratings distribution  54099/100
 
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11/26/2025 05:08 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,15933/100
 
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11/03/2025 22:10 Larcx13  Ratings distribution  2,85074/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 70.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.

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60/100
From 02/26/2024 17:18 | #302238
This album sounds the same throughout. Too much the same
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From 02/15/2020 00:25 | #247802
Ramones 6th album flies under the radar but it was a return to form after the Phil Spector collaboration. If you’re a fan you are still safely on board the train.
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90/100
From 06/23/2019 13:39 | #238117
Underrated album, as can be said for a good portion of 80's Ramones albums. Favorites: The KKK Took My Baby Away, She's A Sensation, Come On Now, This Business Is Killing Me.
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80/100
From 12/22/2014 15:17 | #129890
Probably the most overlooked album in The Ramones catalog. Best known for The KK Took My Baby Away, but all Quiet on the Eastern Front and 7-11 are great songs too.
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From 03/28/2014 17:02 | #107909
after the collaboration with phil spector didn't bring the hoped-for success, the ramones were received the next strange relationship to producer graham gouldman. out came a record with as many pop-punk-songs as "end of the century" already had. if you listen very carefully, you can detect a slightly difference between the two albums. but imo that difference is so marginal, that both are equal.
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