Nick Of Time
by Bonnie Raitt

Nick Of Time by Bonnie Raitt
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 8,801st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 90 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (123rd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,245th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,801st)

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Bonnie Raitt bestography

Nick Of Time is ranked 2nd best out of 22 albums by Bonnie Raitt on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bonnie Raitt is Give It Up which is ranked number 6863 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 128.

Bonnie Raitt album bestography « Higher ranked (6,863rd)
Give It Up
This album (8,801st)
Nick Of Time
Lower ranked (10,523rd) »
Takin' My Time

(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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Nick Of Time rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,801st | 1980s rank: 1,245th | 1989 rank: 123rd

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Nick Of Time ratings

Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 90 votes)
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12/22/2025 02:29 zags7000  Ratings distribution  20,46864/100
 
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11/28/2025 20:34 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100
 
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10/25/2025 04:21 mikepen  Ratings distribution  38684/100
 
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08/13/2025 19:34 marcoserra1966  Ratings distribution  83658/100
 
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06/18/2025 19:11 idiotican  Ratings distribution  2,80374/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.8/100, a mean average of 68.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.

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From 04/14/2025 09:57 | #308505
Album of the Year at the 1990 Grammys
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75/100
From 03/06/2021 03:11 | #266997
Bonnie Raitt's a treasure and there are some great songs here. Not all of them.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 01/12/2021 18:16 | #264309
A alma de um blues rock oitentista!
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From 07/20/2019 18:13 | #240059
Favorite Tracks:Nobody's Girl, I Will Not Be Denied, I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again
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90/100
From 05/07/2019 15:42 | #235960
Raitt had been around a long time when this album made its appearance on many tops of the year charts. There was plenty of quality simmering on her earlier albums, and this one bottled what had been spread over her catalogue.
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Rating:  
55/100
From 02/20/2016 21:55 | #160380
The lady deserved a big paycheck. That said this record is a sell-out.
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70/100
From 02/08/2015 22:22 | #134396
Oddly catchy, even though I don't usually like prepackaged stuff like this.
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80/100
From 11/07/2014 22:30 | #126426
How can you not love Bonnie? It's an oldie but a goody.
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From 10/06/2014 03:22 | #123477
This is payback.
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From 07/27/2011 16:15 | #24943
Picked this off Rolling Stone's top 500. First song is really good, and the lyrics hit you. It was such a good beginning that I thought this might be a decent album. But sadly the other 10 or so songs are garbage.
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