Killing Joke
by Killing Joke
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Killing Joke is ranked as the best album by Killing Joke.
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Killing Joke track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/08/2026 16:05 | VeVt | 95 | 51/100 |
| ! | 05/01/2026 11:16 | Pavloss | 488 | 50/100 |
| ! | 04/15/2026 16:00 | wizardalien | 865 | 48/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2026 11:21 | Leginlists | 3,750 | 83/100 |
| ! | 03/17/2026 01:33 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,325 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.9/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.
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A solid debut but nothing really stands out. Enjoyed the instrumentals but none of the tracks really excited. Requiem was my favourite track.
really interesting driving punk rock prog
elo269megv 12/16/2018 17:30 | #227300 | TOP COMMENT
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Disagree with the notion of this being overrated, if anything, its severely underrated! Great bass and drum grooves, jangly and jagged guitars, late 70s post-punk vocal delivery, borderline post-hardcore at times, punky yet melodic. I'm hearing Cure, Gang Of Four, Wire, and Television influences off the bat... With only 2 comments and 133 ratings (before mine) and ranked at 43rd of 1980, 324th of the 80s, and 1999th all time respectively, this album is highly underrated in my opinion.
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poppmusic 01/08/2015 06:21 | #131053 | TOP COMMENT
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This is the ablum that started industrial rock (and from which Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age and Soundgarden got their badass sound). That's a pretty monumental achievement. It's rough and brusque, relentlessly so. One of the most underrated works on this site.
Legendary album. Inspired a huge number of Post-Punk bands and Heavy Metal bands, especially with songs like "Requiem".
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