Peggy Suicide
by Julian Cope
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Julian Cope bestography
Peggy Suicide is ranked as the best album by Julian Cope.
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Peggy Suicide track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Peggy Suicide rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1991 | 4/50 | - |
| 2026 | mrfloosak | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Tuur | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 21/100 | 79 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Vox Magazine 50 Albums of 1991 | 3/50 | - |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 40 Music Albums of 1991 | 25/40 | 2 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1991 | 60/86 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Arthurknight | Top 99 Music Albums of 1991 | 32/99 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Wasinski | Top 90 Music Albums of 1991 | 73/90 | 1 |
| 2026 | BorderFreeAndrew | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 28/100 | 71 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 93 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 428 | |||
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Peggy Suicide ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/08/2026 12:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,176 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/31/2026 00:23 | Skerns | 5,215 | 80/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2026 15:46 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 10% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.
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Peggy Suicide forum mentions
dihansse 02/15/2021 21:54 in My discoveries per year
CharlieBarley 06/25/2018 04:22 in POLL: Best depressing album by a male singer-songwriterPeggy Suicide comments
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This is a fantastic album and I urge anybody that has not listened to it yet to give it a spin.
One of the most underrated and overlooked albums of the nineties. Loads of great stuff here, the most well known probably being, beautiful love. Peggy suicide, is Possibly the best thing Julian Cope has ever done.
"Safesurfer" may be the greatest anti-AIDS song ever written. And "Hanging Out..." is spectacular. Check the Lenny Bruce samples on "Soldier Blue." Spectacular. (Edited)
Secondsoul 12/22/2012 16:34 | #58577 | TOP COMMENT
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Good to see that this is regarded as his best album on here. Due to it's length of course there are a few fillers but among these are some really great tracks such as Leperskin, Safesurfer and Las Vegas Basement
Great psych-art-rock album, quite varied yet highly creative and original throughout. Amazing guitar work on "Safesurfer" particularly but really across the entire album. Worth hearing more than once, it's a grower. (Edited)
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