The Man Upstairs
by Robyn Hitchcock
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Robyn Hitchcock bestography
The Man Upstairs is ranked 17th best out of 35 albums by Robyn Hitchcock on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Robyn Hitchcock is Element Of Light which is ranked number 6553 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 202.
(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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The Man Upstairs track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Man Upstairs rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 97 Music Albums of 2014 | 34/97 | 3 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 89/100 | 1 |
| 2024 | Steppenwolf666 | Skulls, Skeletons, Coffins, Churches, Cemeteries | 14/54 | - |
| 2023 | cmoshier | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 90/100 | 1 |
| 2021 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 8/100 | 5 |
| 2019 |  bertrandu | 2010s Singer/ Songwriter | 79/100 | - |
| 2019 | bertrandu | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 22/100 | 4 |
| 2019 | bertrandu | 2010s Singer/Songwriter part 2/3 : 2014-2016 | 27/100 | - |
| 2018 |  PatrickD | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 40/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 14 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 19 | |||
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The Man Upstairs ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/17/2024 18:47 | davidleewrong | 2,357 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2022 06:06 |  zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2022 04:18 | MadhattanJack | 6,029 | 66/100 |
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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 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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